Today the nations of the world may be divided into two classes -- the nations in which the government fears the people, and the nations in which the people fear the government.
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Showing posts with label Country Quotes. Show all posts
To read the papers and to list...
To read the papers and to listen to the news... one would think the country is in terrible trouble. You do not get that impression when you travel the back roads and the small towns do care about their country and wish it well.
The common good of a collectiv...
The common good of a collective -- a race, a class, a state -- was the claim and justification of every tyranny ever established over men. Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive. Has any act of selfishness ever equaled the carnage perpetrated by disciples of altruism? Does the fault lie in men's hypocrisy or in the nature of the principle? The most dreadful butchers were the most sincere. They believed in the perfect society reached through the guillotine and the firing squad. Nobody questioned their right to murder since they were murdering for an altruistic purpose. It was accepted that man must be sacrificed for other men. Actors change, but the course of the tragedy remains the same. A humanitarian who starts with the declarations of love for mankind and ends with a sea of blood. It goes on and will go on so long as men believe that an action is good if it is unselfish. That permits the altruist to act and forces his victims to bear it. The leaders of collectivist movements ask nothing of themselves. But observe the results.
Shall we then judge a country ...
Shall we then judge a country by the majority, or by the minority? By the minority, surely. 'Tis pedantry to estimate nations by the census, or by square miles of land, or other than by their importance to the mind of the time.
My country owes me nothing. It...
My country owes me nothing. It gave me, as it gives every boy and girl, a chance. It gave me schooling, independence of action, opportunity for service and honor. In no other land could a boy from a country village, without inheritance or influential friends, look forward with unbounded hope.
In any country there must be p...
In any country there must be people who have to die. They are the Sacrifices any nation has to make to achieve law and order.
I lived in solitude in the cou...
I lived in solitude in the country and noticed how the monotony of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind.
I have never belonged wholehea...
I have never belonged wholeheartedly to a country, a state, nor to a circle of friends, nor even to my own family.
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