“ Herb is the healing of a Nation, alcohol is the destruction. ” ~ Bob Marley
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“ This is a difficult time for our Nation and our economy. While this settlement imposes new rules and regulations, we believe that settling the case now is the right thing to do for our customers, for the technology industry and for the economy, ” ~ Bill Gates
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“ 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. ” ~ Erich Fromm
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“ No matter how you care to define it, I do not identify with the local group. Planet, species, race, Nation, state, religion, party, union, club, association, neighborhood improvement committee; I have no interest in any of it. I love and treasure individuals as I meet them, I loathe and despise the groups they identify with and belong to. ” ~ George Carlin
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“ The decay and disintegration of this culture is astonishingly amusing if you are emotionally detached from it. I have always viewed it from a safe distance, knowing I don't belong; it doesn't include me, and it never has. no matter how you care to define it, I do not identify with the local group. Planet, species, race, Nation, state, religion, party, union, club, association, neighborhood improvement committee; I have no interest in any of it. I love and treasure individuals as I meet them, I loathe and despise the groups they identify with and belong to. ” ~ George Carlin
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“ This is a little prayer dedicated to the separation of church and state. I guess if they are going to force those kids to pray in schools they might as well have a nice prayer like this: Our Father who art in heaven, and to the republic for which it stands, thy kingdom come, one Nation indivisible as in heaven, give us this day as we forgive those who so proudly we hail. Crown thy good into temptation but deliver us from the twilight's last gleaming. Amen and Awomen. ” ~ George Carlin
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“ We are a Nation of sheep, and ” ~ George Carlin
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“ What exactly is the free world, anyway? I guess it would depend on what you consider the non-free world. And I can't find a clear definition of that, can you? Where is that? Russia? China? For chrissakes, Russia has a better Mafia than we do now, and China is pirating Lion King DVDs and selling dildos on the Internet. They sound pretty free to me. Here are some more jingoistic variations you need to be on the lookout for; "The greatest Nation on Earth; the greatest Nation in the history of the world"; and "the most powerful Nation on the face of the Earth." That last one is usually thrown in just before we bomb a bunch of brown people. Which is every couple of years. ” ~ George Carlin
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“ I have always given it as my decided opinion that no Nation had a right to intermeddle in the internal concerns of another; that every one had a right to form and adopt whatever government they liked best to live under themselves; and that, if this c. ” ~ George Washington
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“ I have always given it as my decided opinion that no Nation had a right to intermeddle in the internal concerns of another; that every one had a right to form and adopt whatever government they liked best to live under themselves; and that, if this c ” ~ George Washington
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“ No people can be bound to acknowledge and adore the invisible hand which conducts the affairs of men more than the people of the United States. Every step, by which they have advanced to the character of an independent Nation, seems to have been distinguished by some token of providential agency. ” ~ George Washington
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“ The propitious smiles of heaven can never be expected on a Nation that disregard the eternal rules of order and right which Heaven itself has ordained. ” ~ George Washington
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“ The willingness with which our young people are likely to serve in any war, no matter how justified, shall be directly proportional to how they perceive veterans of early wars were treated and appreciated by our Nation. ” ~ George Washington
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“ There is an option still left to the United States of America, that it is in their choice and depends upon their conduct, whether they will be respectable and prosperous or contemptible and miserable as a Nation ” ~ George Washington
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“ There can be no greater error than to expect, or calculate, upon real favors from Nation to Nation. It is an illusion which experience must cure, which a just pride ought to discard. ” ~ George Washington
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“ Without a humble imitation of the characteristics of the Divine Author of our blessed religion, we can never hope to be a happy Nation. ” ~ George Washington
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“ 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. ” ~ Henry Ford
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“ America is just a Nation of two hundred million used car salesmen with all the money we need to buy guns and no qualms about killing anybody else in the world who tries to make us uncomfortable. ” ~ Hunter S. Thompson
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“ In a Nation run by swine, all pigs are upward-mobile and the rest of us are fucked until we can put our acts together: not necessarily to win, but mainly to keep from losing completely. ” ~ Hunter S. Thompson
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“ We are turning into a Nation of whimpering slaves to Fear - fear of war, fear of poverty, fear of random terrorism, fear of getting down-sized or fired because of the plunging economy, fear of getting evicted for bad debts or suddenly getting locked up in a military detention camp on vague charges of being a Terrorist sympathizer. ” ~ Hunter S. Thompson
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