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The French complain of everything, and always. (Black Elk )
I like the English. They have the most rigid code of immorality in the world. (Black Elk )
Americans are benevolently ignorant about Canada, while Canadians are malevolently well informed about the United States. (Black Elk )
A country grows in history not only because of the heroism of its troops on the field of battle, it grows also when it turns to justice and to right for the conservation of its interests. (Black Elk )
A nation is not conquered which is perpetually to be conquered. (Black Elk )
Spain: A whale stranded upon the coast of Europe. (Black Elk )
England can never be ruined except by a Parliament. (Black Elk )
A Canadian is someone who knows how to make love in a canoe. (Black Elk )
If it were not for the government, we should have nothing to laugh at in France. (Black Elk )
China has no income tax, no unemployment and not a single soldier outside its borders. (Black Elk )
Be England what she will, with all her faults she is my country still. (Black Elk )
Russia is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma. [About Russia] (Black Elk )
The maxim of the British people is Business as usual. (Black Elk )
The soil of their native land is dear to all the hearts of mankind. (Black Elk )
I do not call the sod under my feet my country; but language -- religion -- government -- blood -- identity in these makes men of one country. (Black Elk )
God made the country and man made the town. (Black Elk )
Nations have always good reasons for being what they are, and the best of all is that they cannot be otherwise. (Black Elk )
The wealth and prosperity of the country are only the comeliness of the body, the fullness of the flesh and fat; but the spirit is independent of them; it requires only muscle, bone and nerve for the true exercise of its functions. We cannot lose our liberty, because we cannot cease to think. (Black Elk )
The more I saw of foreign countries the more I loved my own. (Black Elk )
Nationality is the miracle of political independence; race is the principle of physical analogy. (Black Elk )
Great countries are those that produce great people. (Black Elk )
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