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• The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be measured by the way in which its animals are treated.
  -- Mahatma Gandhi...
• All we know about the new economic world tells us that nations which train engineers will prevail over those which train lawyers.
  No nation has ever sued its way to greatness. -- Richard Lamm...
• A country can be judged by the quality of its proverbs. -- German Proverb
• The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons. -- F. Dostoyevski
• The greatness of kings is made at the margin; the greatness of legislatures, at the mean.
  That is to say, a monarch is judged by individual virtues and performance, but no legislature can be called great because it contained one or a few impressive individuals, to whom it paid no heed....
• You can tell the ideals of a nation by its advertisements. -- Norman Douglas (1868-1952)
• You can tell the ideals of a nation by its advertisements. -- Norman Dougla
• Saints should always be judged guilty until they are proved innocent.
  -- George Orwell, "Reflections on Gandhi...