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It's nice to say let's be bipartisan. But we're a partisan nation. We were raised as a partisan nation.
Colin Powell

Nice, Partisan, Bipartisan

Cyberspace. A consensual hallucination experienced daily by billions of legitimate operators, in every nation, by children being taught mathematical concepts.
William Gibson

Children, Daily, Taught

National character is only another name for the particular form which the littleness, perversity and baseness of mankind take in every country. Every nation mocks at other nations, and all are right.
Arthur Schopenhauer

Character, Country, Another

What do we, as a nation, care about books? How much do you think we spend altogether on our libraries, public or private, as compared with what we spend on our horses?
John Ruskin

Care, Public, Books

No nation ever taxed itself into prosperity.
Rush Limbaugh

Prosperity, Taxed

You should see what our Founding Fathers used to say to each other and in the early part of our nation. But what they were able to do, especially in Philadelphia in 1787, four months, they argued about what a House should be, what a Senate should be, the power of the president, the Congress, the Supreme Court. And they had to deal with slavery.
Colin Powell

Power, Able, Used

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.
Louis Pasteur

Knowledge, Science, Humanity

A marriage without conflicts is almost as inconceivable as a nation without crises.
Andre Maurois

Marriage, Almost, Conflicts

The genius, wit, and the spirit of a nation are discovered by their proverbs.
Francis Bacon

Genius, Spirit, Wit

Pearl Harbor caused our Nation to wholeheartedly commit to winning World War II, changing the course of our Nation's history and the world's future.
Joe Baca

History, War, Future

No nation ever had an army large enough to guarantee it against attack in time of peace, or ensure it of victory in time of war.
Calvin Coolidge

Peace, Time, War

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.
Jane Austen

Rest, Found, Everywhere

In old times people used to try and square the circle; now they try and devise schemes for satisfying the Irish nation.
Samuel Butler

A nation' s strength ultimately consists in what it can do on its own, and not in what it can borrow from others.
Indira Gandhi

Strength, Others, Borrow

On 16 September 1985, when the Commerce Department announced that the United States had become a debtor nation, the American Empire died.
Gore Vidal

Become, American, United

So what is so strange about saying I want Barack Obama to fail if his mission is to reconstruct and reform this nation so that capitalism and individual liberty are not its foundation? I want the country to survive. I want the country to succeed.
Rush Limbaugh

Saying, Country, Strange

No nation can rise to the height of glory unless your women are side by side with you.
Muhammad Ali Jinnah

Women, Rise, Unless

You just need to be a flea against injustice. Enough committed fleas biting strategically can make even the biggest dog uncomfortable and transform even the biggest nation.
Marian Wright Edelman

Enough, Against, Dog

The statesman's duty is to bridge the gap between his nation's experience and his vision.
Henry A. Kissinger

Experience, Between, Vision

I was told to challenge every spiritual teacher, every world leader to utter the one sentence that no religion, no political party, and no nation on the face of the earth will dare utter: 'Ours is not a better way, ours is merely another way.
Neale Donald Walsch

Religion, Teacher, Spiritual

If we have to use force, it is because we are America. We are the indispensable nation. We stand tall. We see further into the future.
Madeleine Albright

Future, America, Stand

Once to every person and nation come the moment to decide. In the conflict of truth with falsehood, for the good or evil side.
James Russell Lowell

Good, Truth, Evil

A nation without dregs and malcontents is orderly, peaceful and pleasant, but perhaps without the seed of things to come.
Eric Hoffer

Peaceful, Perhaps, Seed

Every nation in every region now has a decision to make. Either you are with us, or you are with the terrorists.
George W. Bush

Decision, Either, Terrorists

Our nation must come together to unite.
George W. Bush

Together, Unite

The idea for which this nation stands will not survive if the highest goal free man can set themselves is an amiable mediocrity. Excellence implies striving for the highest standards in every phase of life.
John W. Gardner

Life, Goal, Free

Are we a Christian nation now? It's doubtful. But did we start out as one? Without question.
Pat Robertson

Christian, Start, Question

The way to kill a man or a nation is to cut off his dreams, the way the whites are taking care of the Indians: killing their dreams, their magic, their familiar spirits.
William S. Burroughs

Dreams, Care, Off

The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history. I mean in this century's history. But we all lived in this century. I didn't live in this century.
Dan Quayle

History, Live, Mean

In order to fix Social Security, we must restructure it so that we continue to provide for our Nation's seniors that are approaching retirement age, but allow for younger taxpayers to invest a portion of their Social Security taxes in private accounts.
Herman Cain

Age, Social, Security

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