“Die Transvaler is issued with a calling – it comes to serve a volk/people by allowing steadfast and lofty nationalism to resound wherever its voice may reach. From this calling its inspiration will spring. This endeavor will determine its character.”
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Letter to Victoria, Lady Welby (1908) SS 80-81

Lionel Aingimea (2019) cited in: " President of Nauru urges U.N. to embrace Taiwan http://focustaiwan.tw/news/aipl/201909270015.aspx" in Focus Taiwan, 27 September 2019.
Statement made during the General Debate of the 74th general assembly of the United Nations, 26 September 2019.
Source: Onward Industry!, 1931, p. 47, as cited in Lyndall Urwick (1937;50)

1840s, Essays: First Series (1841), Art

“The fortunes of a nation are determined above everything by the quality of its people.”
Speech at Douglas Castle, Lanarkshire, Scotland (27 August 1927), quoted in Our Inheritance (London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1938), p. 129.
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1830s, The Lyceum Address (1838)
Context: At what point shall we expect the approach of danger? By what means shall we fortify against it? — Shall we expect some transatlantic military giant, to step the Ocean, and crush us at a blow? Never! — All the armies of Europe, Asia and Africa combined, with all the treasure of the earth (our own excepted) in their military chest; with a Buonaparte for a commander, could not by force, take a drink from the Ohio, or make a track on the Blue Ridge, in a trial of a thousand years.
At what point then is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reach us, it must spring up amongst us. It cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide.

Volume II, Ch. VII, p. 158.
(Buch II) (1893)