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Nations4 quotes
The history of every country begins in the heart of a man or a woman. — Willa Cather · 1913A people was a multitude defined by the common objects of their love. — St. Augustine · 426The 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 · 1941Nations, like men, have their infancy. — Henry St. John, Lord Bolingbroke · 1752
Community1 quote
A people was a multitude defined by the common objects of their love. — St. Augustine · 426
Democracy1 quote
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
History1 quote
The history of every country begins in the heart of a man or a woman. — Willa Cather · 1913
The history of every country begins in the heart of a man or a woman. — Willa Cather · 1913
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
Youth1 quote
Nations, like men, have their infancy. — Henry St. John, Lord Bolingbroke · 1752