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It does not much matter that an individual loses two or three hundred pounds in buying a bad picture...

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So far as it depends on the course of this government, our relations of good will and friendship wil...

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Or how does it happen that trade, which after all is nothing more than the exchange of products of v...

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The choice, however, is as clear now for nations as it was once for the individual: peace or extinct...

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Can't you see there's a determinism about the fate of nations? They all seem to get what they deserv...

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Democratic nations must try to find ways to starve the terrorist and the hijacker of the oxygen of p...

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The whirlwinds of revolt will continue to shake the foundations of our nation until the bright day o...

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Martin Luther King, Jr.I Have a Dream: Writings and Speeches That Changed the World

Some of the environmental lobbyists of the Western nations are the salt of the earth, but many of th...

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I may now add that civilization is a process in the service of Eros, whose purpose is to combine sin...

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Sigmund FreudCivilization and Its Discontents

It has to be admitted that starving nations never seem to be quite so starving that they cannot affo...

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Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations; entangling alliances with none.

Money, not morality, is the principle commerce of civilized nations.

Peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations...entangling alliances with none

To establish any mode to abolish war, however advantageous it might be to Nations, would be to take ...

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It is only barbarous nations who have a sudden growth after a victory

The future belongs to Science. More and more she will control the destinies of the nations. Already ...

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In a rich moonlit garden, flowers open beneath the eyes of entire nations terrified to acknowledge t...

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Our greatest power as nations and individuals is not the ability to employ assault weapons, suicide ...

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AberjhaniSplendid Literarium: A Treasury of Stories

Money speaks sense in a language all nations understand.

To stomp about the world ignoring cultural differences is arrogant, to be sure, but perhaps there is...

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Each nation feels superior to other nations. That breeds patriotism - and wars.

Education is the cheap defense of nations.

My loyalties will not be bound by national borders, or confined in time by one nation's history, or ...

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Edward AbbeyConfessions of a Barbarian

The life of nations no less than that of men is lived largely in the imagination.

Empires do not suffer emptiness of purpose at the time of their creation. It is when they have becom...

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Nations are as equal as so many madmen or drunkards.

When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men in a society, over the course of time they cre...

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Harmony, liberal intercourse with all nations, are recommended by policy, humanity, and interest.

Time after time have nations, ay, and rich and strong nations, learned in the arts, been, and passed...

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War has become a luxury that only small nations can afford.

Torture, including practices like waterboarding, violates the legal and moral standards of all civil...

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