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Our cultural diversity has most certainly shaped our national character. -- Julie Bishop
The English have always been greedy for news of times past, with that mixture of fatalism and melancholy which is part of the national character. -- Peter Ackroyd
America has always welcomed anyone willing to assimilate to its national character. But radical Islam rejects assimilation and is bent on the conquest of our national character. -- Nancy Pearcey
Most importantly, nothing has happened to change my conviction that freedom and the love of liberty remain the essential defining attributes of our national character as a people. -- Ibrahim Babangida
The German national character is a favorite subject of character experts, probably because the less mature a nation, the more she is an object of criticism and not of history. -- Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
From blood banking to the modern subway, from jazz to social justice, the contributions of African Americans have shaped and molded and influenced our national culture and our national character. -- Bill Frist
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National character is only another name for the particular form which the littleness, perversity and baseness of mankind take in every country. Every nation mocks at other nations, and all are right. -- Arthur Schopenhauer
As one digs deeper into the national character of the Americans, one sees that they have sought the value of everything in this world only in the answer to this single question: how much money will it bring in? -- Alexis de Tocqueville
Queen Victoria did not regard art, letters, or music as in any way springing from national character: they were something quite apart, elegant decorations resembling a scarf or a bracelet, and in no way expressive of the soul of the country. -- E. F. Benson
I have always believed that national character... depends more on the female part of society than is generally imagined. Precepts from the lips of a beloved mother... sink deep in the heart, and make an impression which is seldom entirely effaced. -- John Marshall
From slavery to segregation, we remember that America did not always live up to its ideals. In fact, we often fell far short of them. But we also learned that fundamental to our national character is the drive to live out the true meaning of our creed. -- Bill Frist
No government can be strong and flourishing while the national character is weak and degraded. A government must flourish and decay with its subjects; and, when a prince makes a law or performs an action which has a tendency to injure the character or prosperity of the nation, he injures himself. -- Benjamin Robbins Curtis
I don't really like discussions about a supposed Russian national character. -- Garry Kasparov
The love for our native land strengthens our individual and national character. -- Alexander Hamilton
Intolerance of dissent is a well-noted feature of the American national character. -- J. William Fulbright
Of course, no religious test for the presidency - every faith adds to our national character. -- Benjamin Carson
National character cannot be built by law. It is the sum of the moral fiber of its individuals. -- Herbert Hoover
Nothing short of self-respect and that justice which is essential to a national character ought to involve us in war. -- George Washington
In the last analysis, our national future depends upon our national character that is, whether it is spiritually or materially minded. -- Roger Babson
Science, almost from its beginnings, has been truly international in character. National prejudices disappear completely in the scientist's search for truth. -- Irving Langmuir
Economic power is not the same as strength of national character. Our country may be rich in goods, but we are poor in spirit. -- Richard M. Nixon
The national security issues are a really good window into the character of the person that somebody wants to have as commander in chief. -- Tim Kaine
Forms of government are forged mainly in the fire of practice, not in the vacuum of theory. They respond to national character and to national realities. -- George F. Kennan
Sometimes one has the feeling of an almost supernatural character to the shifts and changes in our national mood. They appear beyond the prose of cause and effect ... -- Elizabeth Hardwick
Patriotism depends as much on mutual suffering as on mutual success; and it is by that experience of all fortunes and all feelings that a great national character is created. -- Benjamin Disraeli

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