“We have become more and more not a nation of athletes but a nation of spectators.”

[Egypt: Back to the Balcony, TIME, 4 March 1966, http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,835211,00.html, September 6, 2011]

State of the Union address http://millercenter.org/president/clinton/speeches/speech-3440 (24 January 1995) <br class="br">1990s <br class="br">Context: All Americans, not only in the States most heavily affected but in every place in this country, are rightly disturbed by the large numbers of illegal aliens entering our country. The jobs they hold might otherwise be held by citizens or legal immigrants. The public service they use impose burdens on our taxpayers. That&#x27;s why our administration has moved aggressively to secure our borders more by hiring a record number of new border guards, by deporting twice as many criminal aliens as ever before, by cracking down on illegal hiring, by barring welfare benefits to illegal aliens. In the budget I will present to you, we will try to do more to speed the deportation of illegal aliens who are arrested for crimes, to better identify illegal aliens in the workplace as recommended by the commission headed by former Congresswoman Barbara Jordan. We are a nation of immigrants. But we are also a nation of laws. It is wrong and ultimately self-defeating for a nation of immigrants to permit the kind of abuse of our immigration laws we have seen in recent years, and we must do more to stop it.

Herbert Hoover, 1874-1964 (1971)

letter to the Abbés Chalut and Arnaud (17 April 1787).
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Interpretation of a Japanese interview, as quoted in an article https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/04/sports/olympics/yuzuru-hanyu.html of The New York Times, written by Jeré Longman, published 4 January 2018. (Retrieved 10 September 2020) <br class="br">Other quotes, 2018

Reported in Elizabeth LeReverend, "The Irrepressible Dr. Jane Goodall", Verge Magazine (2010)

Chap. 3 : What Can History Tell Us about Contemporary Society?
On History (1997)

As quoted in &quot;America&#x27;s Next Top Fearmonger: The presidential candidates compete to scare the daylights out of the U.S. public.&quot; http://nationalinterest.org/feature/america%E2%80%99s-next-top-fearmonger-12954 (22 May 2015), by Robert Golan-Vilella, National Interest <br class="br">2010s

Source: J. Steur, Netherlands. Volume 63 Article from 1959. Quoted from J. Vuylsteke, &quot;Flemish Belgium since 1830: Studies and sketches collected by the general board of the Willemsfonds on the occasion of the Jubilee Year 1905&quot;, Willemsfonds, 1905, p. 222. https://www.dbnl.org/tekst/_nee003195901_01/_nee003195901_01_0114.php King Leopold II and the Queen are invited by the mayor of Brussels, Karel Buls, to attend the first performance in the renovated Flemish theatre, where he gives a speech in Flemish. This was followed by thunderous applause such as &#x27;Long live our Flemish King!&#x27;