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Mahatma Gandhi – The strength of forgiveness
 What is true of individuals is true of nations. One cannot forgive too much. The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.
– Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948) |
Winston Churchill – For a nation to tax itself into prosperity
 We contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle.
– Winston Churchill (Nov 30, 1874-Jan 24, 1965) |
Aristotle – Earth change over immense period of time
 But the whole vital process of the Earth takes place so gradually and in periods of time which are so immense compared with the length of our life, that these changes are not observed, and before their course can be recorded from beginning to end whole nations perish and are destroyed.
– Aristotle (384 BC-322 BC) |
Niccolò Machiavelli – The foundation of all states
 The principal foundation of all states are good laws and good arms.
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Edward Abbey – My loyalties will not be bound by borders
 My loyalties will not be bound by national borders, or confined in time by one nation’s history, or limited in the spiritual dimension by one language and culture. I pledge my allegiance to the damned human race, and my everlasting love to the green hills of Earth, and my intimations of glory to the singing stars, to the very end of space and time.
– Edward Abbey (1927-1989) |
Carl Sagan – National boundaries are not evident from space
 National boundaries are not evident when we view the Earth from space. Fanatical ethnic or religious or national chauvinisms are a little difficult to maintain when we see our planet as a fragile blue crescent fading to become an inconspicuous point of light against the bastion and citadel of the stars.
– Carl Sagan (1934-1996) |
