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Above all, I think, Mark Twain sympathized with and found something to admire in the citizens of every nation, seeking beneath the surface veneer the universal traits of that nation's humanity.
One of the principal goals of my domestic policy has been to strengthen the private sector economic base of our Nation's economically troubled urban and rural areas. With Congress' cooperation, we have substantially expanded the Federal government's economic development programs and provided new tax incentives for private investment in urban and rural communities.
"This is a very unexpected and very unhappy confession of yours, Humphry! You have acted most unwisely! you have been disloyal to me, who am not only your father, but your King! You have proved yourself unworthy of the nation's trust, and you have deceived, more cruelly than you think, an innocent and too-confiding girl.
He was looking forward to the years before him, endeavoring to steady himself, in a moment of weakness, by the remembrance of past months of active service. She was thinking of the days when she walked with her hero out of delightsomeness and ease into danger and anxiety, all for the nation's succor, in the nation's time of need. Some had deemed it a needless sacrifice.
It is most regrettable that the nation's treasure should thus be squandered upon foreign luxuries. The amount of currency needed at home and the amount produced by the mines should be investigated so as to obtain a basis for limiting the foreign trade at the open ports of Nagasaki, Tsushima, and Satsuma, and for fixing the maximum number of foreign vessels visiting those places."
This did not cost more than the teetotal drinks, but all the same there are some persons who say that those who swell the 'Nation's Drink Bill' by drinking beer with their dinners or suppers are a kind of criminal, and that they ought to be compelled to drink something else: that is, if they are working people.
It was strange to hear in that lonely waste, a handful of men, bent on a deadly task, singing a low chant of penitence a Kyrie eleison. Afterwards came the benediction upon this buccaneering expedition, behind which was one man's personal enmity, a merchant company's cupidity, and a great nation's lust of conquest! Iberville stole across the shore and up the hill with his handful of men.
This was more than he could bear, and he left Italy for France, where the king had invited him to come and spend the remainder of his life. Francis I. had wished to have the picture in the Milan monastery taken to France, but that was not to be done. Doubtless the king expected Leonardo to do some equally great work after he became the nation's guest.
"'Treaty, questioned the German, 'what is a treaty? Will you go to war with us for that just for a scrap of paper? "'But that scrap of paper means our nation's honour, the Englishman said. "'Have you counted the cost? asked the German, thinking to frighten the Englishman. "'We English, replied the British Ambassador, 'are not likely to go back on our word because of fear.
Those were the days when the Indian agents were carrying on their lists twice as many Indians as actually existed and receiving twice as many supplies as really were issued to the tribes. The curse of politics was ours even at that time, and it cost us then, as now, unestimated millions of our nation's dearest treasures.
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