GEMS OF THOUGHT
NATIONS. Individuals may form communities, but it is institutions alone that create a nation. —Disraeli. National progress is the sum of individual industry, energy, and uprightness, as national decay is of individual idleness, selfishness, and vice. —Smiles. No nation can be destroyed while it possesses a good home life. —Holland. Territory is but the body of a nation. The people who inhabit its hills and valleys are its soul, its spirit, its life.—Garfield. Through the wholesome chastisements of Love (God), nations are helped onward towards justice, righteousness. and peace, which are the landmarks of prosperity—Mary Baker Eddy. Aes for the just and noble idea that nations, as well as individuals, are parts of one wondrous whole, il has hardly passed the lips or pen of any but religious men or poets. Il is the one great principle of the greatest religion which has ever nourished the morals of mankind.—Harriet Martineau.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 27 December 1939, Page 4
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