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The Nation
«Science knows no country, because knowledge belongs to humanity, and is the torch which illuminates the world. Science is the highest personification of the nation because that nation will remain the first which carries the furthest the works of thought and intelligence.»
Author: Louis Pasteur
(Chemist, Microbiologist)
| Keywords:
furthest, illuminates, personification, that nation, The Nation, The Works, torch
«My creed is that public service must be more than doing a job efficiently and honestly. It must be a complete dedication to the people and to the nation with full recognition that every human being is entitled to courtesy and consideration, that constructive criticism is not only to be expected but sought, that smears are not only to be expected but fought, that honor is to be earned, not bought.»
Author: Margaret Chase Smith
(Senator)
| Keywords:
bought, consideration, constructive, Constructive criticism, courtesy, creed, dedication, earned, efficiently, entitled, expected, fought, honestly, public service, recognition, smear, smeared, smearing, smears, sought, The Nation
«I am poor and naked, but I am the chief of the nation. We do not want riches but we do want to train our children right. Riches would do us no good. We could not take them with us to the other world. We do not want riches. We want peace and love.»
Author: Red Cloud
| Keywords:
chief, Chief of, naked, no-good, peace and love, riches, The Chief, The Nation, The Other World, train
«New York, the nation's thyroid gland.»
Author: Christopher Morley
| About:
America and Americans,
New York
| Keywords:
gland, glands, New York, The Nation, thyroid, thyroid gland, York
«I also wish that the Pledge of Allegiance were directed at the Constitution and the Bill of Rights, as it is when the President takes his oath of office, rather than to the flag and the nation»
Author: Dr. Carl Sagan
(Astronomer, Scientist, Writer)
| About:
Constitution,
Nations,
Presidency
| Keywords:
allegiance, bill, Bill of Rights, constitution, directed, flag, oath, Oath of, office, pledge, pledged, pledges, Pledge of Allegiance, The Bill, The Nation, The Pledge of Allegiance, the President
«Nationalism is our form of incest, is our idolatry, is our insanity. ''Patriotism'' is its cult. It should hardly be necessary to say, that by ''patriotism'' I mean that attitude which puts the own nation above humanity, above the principles of truth and justice; not the loving interest in one's own nation, which is the concern with the nation's spiritual as much as with its material welfare /never with its power over other nations. Just as love for one individual which excludes the love for others is not love, love for one's country which is not part of one's love for humanity is not love, but idolatrous worship.»
Author: Erich Fromm
(Philosopher, Psychoanalyst)
| Keywords:
concern, cult, cults, Cult of the, excludes, form of worship, for one, hardly, idolatries, idolatrous, idolatry, incest, insanity, nationalism, One Country, patriotism, puts, The Cult, The Nation, welfare, worship
«It is well enough that people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning.»
Author: Henry Ford
| Keywords:
banking, monetary, monetary system, People of, revolution, system, The Nation, well enough
«It will, I believe, be everywhere found, that as the clergy are, or are not what they ought to be, so are the rest of the nation.»
«If there is light in the soul, there will be beauty in the person. If there is beauty in the person, there will be harmony in the house. If there is harmony in the house, there will be order in the nation. If there is order in the nation, there will»
«I have never accepted what many people have kindly said-namely that I inspired the nation. Their will was resolute and remorseless, and as it proved, unconquerable. It fell to me to express it.»
Author: Winston Churchill
(Author, Orator, Prime Minister)
| Keywords:
accepted, fell, inspired, kindly, namely, proved, remorseless, resolute, The Nation, unconquerable
