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The more I saw of foreign countries the more I loved my own. (Quote by - De Delloy)

England can never be ruined except by a Parliament. (Quote by - Lord Burleigh)

The policy of Russia is changeless. Its methods, its tactics, its maneuvers may change, but the polar star of its policy, world domination, is a fixed star. (Quote by - Karl Marx)

It profits a man nothing to give his soul for the whole world... but for Wales! (Quote by - Robert Bolt)

France is the country where the money falls apart and you can't tear the toilet paper. (Quote by - Billy Wilder)

Each nation feels superior to other nations. That breeds patriotism - and wars. (Quote by - Dale Carnegie)

Great nations write their autobiographies in three manuscripts -- the book of their deeds, the book of their words and the book of their art. (Quote by - John Ruskin)

Without a country, I am not a man. (Quote by - Nawaf Al-Nasir Al-Sabah)

Nations, like stars, are entitled to eclipse. All is well, provided the light returns and the eclipse does not become endless night. Dawn and resurrection are synonymous. The reappearance of the light is the same as the survival of the soul. (Quote by - Victor Hugo)

A strong nation, like a strong person, can afford to be gentle, firm, thoughtful, and restrained. It can afford to extend a helping hand to others. It's a weak nation, like a weak person, that must behave with bluster and boasting and rashness and other signs of insecurity. (Quote by - Jimmy Carter)

It is equality of monotony which makes the strength of the British Isles. (Quote by - Eleanor Roosevelt)

Poor nations are hungry, and rich nations are proud; and pride and hunger will ever be at variance. (Quote by - Jonathan Swift)

God how I hate new countries: They are older than the old, more sophisticated, much more conceited, only young in a certain puerile vanity more like senility than anything. (Quote by - D. H. Lawrence)

Great countries are those that produce great people. (Quote by - Benjamin Disraeli)

In every particular state of the world, those nations which are strongest tend to prevail over the others; and in certain marked peculiarities the strongest tend to be the best. (Quoute by - Walter Bagehot)

The nation will find it very hard to look up to the leaders who are keeping their ears to the ground. (Quote by - Winston Churchill)

God made the country and man made the town. (Quoute by - William Cowper)

Leave the matter of religion to the family altar, the church, and the private school, supported entirely by private contributions. Keep the church and state forever separate. (Quote by - Ulysses S. Grant)

Nations! What are nations? Tartars! and Huns! and Chinamen! Like insects they swarm. The historian strives in vain to make them memorable. It is for want of a man that there are so many men. It is individuals that populate the world. (Quote by - Henry David Thoreau)

China has no income tax, no unemployment and not a single soldier outside its borders. (Quote by - Chou En Lai)

The only thing chicken about Israel is their soup. (Quote by - Bob Hope)

The strength and power of a country depends absolutely on the quantity of good men and women in it. (Quote by - John Ruskin)

I suffer more from the humiliations inflicted by my country than from those inflicted on her. (Quote by - Simone Weil)

I do not call the sod under my feet my country; but language, religion, government, blood, identity in these makes men of one country. (Quoute by - Samuel Taylor Coleridge)

Nations have always good reasons for being what they are, and the best of all is that they cannot be otherwise. (Quote by - Marquis De Custine)

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