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Men may be linked in friendship. Nations are linked only by interests. (Black Elk )
The only thing chicken about Israel is their soup. (Black Elk )
The trees in Siberia are miles apart, that is why the dogs are so fast. [About Russia] (Black Elk )
Nations, like stars, are entitled to eclipse. All is well, provided the light returns and the eclipse does not become endless night. Dawn and resurrection are synonymous. The reappearance of the light is the same as the survival of the soul. (Black Elk )
The history of any nation follows an undulatory course. In the trough of the wave we find more or less complete anarchy; but the crest is not more or less complete Utopia, but only, at best, a tolerably humane, partially free and fairly just society that invariably carries within itself the seeds of its own decadence. (Black Elk )
The best thing I know between France and England is the sea. (Black Elk )
A nation is the same people living in the same place. (Black Elk )
A people always ends by resembling its shadow. (Black Elk )
The greatest nations have all acted like gangsters and the smallest like prostitutes. (Black Elk )
The great nations have always acted like gangsters, and the small nations like prostitutes. (Black Elk )
God how I hate new countries: They are older than the old, more sophisticated, much more conceited, only young in a certain puerile vanity more like senility than anything. (Black Elk )
I am the state. (Black Elk )
States that rise quickly, just as all the other things of nature that are born and grow rapidly, cannot have roots and ramifications; the first bad weather kills them. (Black Elk )
The country has charms only for those not obliged to stay there. (Black Elk )
The policy of Russia is changeless. Its methods, its tactics, its maneuvers may change, but the polar star of its policy, world domination, is a fixed star. [About Russia] (Black Elk )
A Country is not a mere territory; the particular territory is only its foundation. The Country is the idea which rises upon that foundation; it is the sentiment of love, the sense of fellowship which binds together all the sons of that territory. (Black Elk )
Methinks I see in my mind a noble and puissant nation rousing herself like a strong man after sleep, and shaking her invincible locks. Methinks I see her as an eagle mewing her mighty youth, and kindling her undazzled eyes at the full midday beam. (Black Elk )
Frenchmen have an unlimited capacity for gallantry and indulge it on every occasion. (Black Elk )
States are as the men, they grow out of human characters. (Black Elk )
There is always something new out of Africa. (Black Elk )
If there be no nobility of descent in a nation, all the more indispensable is it that there should be nobility of ascent -- a character in them that bear rule, so fine and high and pure, that as men come within the circle of its influence, they involuntarily pay homage to that which is the one pre-eminent distinction, the Royalty of Virtue. (Black Elk )
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