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The life of a man is three-score years and ten: a little more, a little less. The life of a Nation is the fullness of the measure of its will to live. — Franklin D. Roosevelt · 1941
Nations, like men, have their infancy. — Henry St. John, Lord Bolingbroke · 1752
A people was a multitude defined by the common objects of their love. — St. Augustine · 426
The history of every country begins in the heart of a man or a woman. — Willa Cather · 1913