#nations

While it may take generations of nurturing, nations founded on and grounded in freedom will eventually overcome and prosper. Once free, folks rarely accept anything less, and that includes Iraqis. ↗

— Trent Lott

#anything #eventually #folks #founded #free

Maxims are the condensed good sense of nations. ↗

— James Mackintosh

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The fate of nations is intimately bound up with their powers of reproduction. All nations and all empires first felt decadence gnawing at them when their birth rate fell off. ↗

— Benito Mussolini

#birth #bound #decadence #empires #fate

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

— Lester B. Pearson

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Lasting peace and security in Iraq and Afghanistan will be achieved when we establish the conditions for democratic, economically viable nations. ↗

— John Warner

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Other nations use 'force'; we Britons alone use 'Might'. ↗

— Evelyn Waugh

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All men should have a drop of treason in their veins, if nations are not to go soft like so many sleepy pears. ↗

— Rebecca West

#go #like #many #men #nations

Character, in the long run, is the decisive factor in the life of an individual and of nations alike. ↗

— Theodore Roosevelt

#character #decisive #factor #individual #life

The traces of our life here will lie cold and still, dreaming, like the brittle eyes of dolls in an abandoned cabin, and the last men will look to them for explanations, or apologies. ↗

— Tim Cahill

#explanations #forgotten-past #future-generations #dreams

At other times, at the edge of a wood, especially at dusk, the trees themselves would assume strange shapes: sometimes they were arms rising heavenwards, , or else the trunk would twist and turn like a body being bent by the wind. At night, when I woke up and the moon and the stars were out, I would see in the sky things that filled me simultaneously with dread and longing. I remember that once, one Christmas Eve, I saw a great naked women, standing erect, with rolling eyes; she must have been a hundred feet high, but along she drifted, growing ever longer and ever thinner, and finally fell apart, each limb remaining separate, with the head floating away first as the rest of her body continued to waver ↗

— Gustave Flaubert

#fear #goddess #hallucinations #nature #night