UK Quotes
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To be corrupted by totalitarianism, one does not have to live in a totalitarian country.
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Eternal Spirit of the chainless Mind! Brightest in dungeons, Liberty! thou art, For there thy habitation is the heart – The heart which love of thee alone can bind; And when thy sons to fetters are consign’d – To fetters and damp vault’s dayless gloom, Their country conquers with their martyrdom.
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The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land; it is at last to set foot on one’s own country as a foreign land.
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These are not dark days: these are great days – the greatest days our country has ever lived.
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I would sooner be a foreigner in Spain than in most countries. How easy it is to make friends in Spain!
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War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it.
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What a country, and what a culture, when the liberals cry before they are hurt, and the reactionaries pose as brave nonconformists, while the radicals make a fetish of their own jokey irrelevance.
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All travel has its advantages. If the passenger visits better countries, he may learn to improve his own. And if fortune carries him to worse, he may learn to enjoy it.
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I will tell you what Jeanne was like. She was like a piano in a country where everyone has had their hands cut off.
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Oh Rome! My country! City of the soul!