Dominique Joseph Garat Quotes
The Batave is much more Dutch than the Englander is English, the Frenchman is French or any other people of the world is anything. It is not exactly their patriotism which gives the Bataves the quality of eternal fixity of character, but rather their land, their climate, their whole manner of being and living, all of which resemble nothing else that can be seen on the face if the earth.
Batavia was another name for the Netherlands.
Dominique Joseph Garat, 1749–1833, French writer and politician, Deputy to the States-General, Minister of Justice, Member of the Executive Committee of Public Instruction, Quoted in Simon Schama, Patriots & Liberators: Revolution in the Netherlands 1780-1813
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She was the first Black woman to be elected to Congress and was the first Black woman to actively campaign for the Presidency
1st Earl of Beaconsfield
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Those same qualities that Hearn extolled in 1895 which maintained the Japanese Empire against external forces, also were instrumental in the transition to militarism and expansionist aggression that Japan would develop on the 1930s and which led to WWII and the Japanese conquest of much of Asia and eventual defeat for the Japanese.
See {640102} and {640101} for his view of what a nation is not.
This statement was more than a proverb but a popular political doctrine as well which had for years destabilized the Balkans. From the Serbian point of view, if a Serbian family moved to Bosnia or another country, their family land and their decedents were Serbian and under the governance of Serbia. Where there were enclaves of Serbs, they and the Serbian Government considered that land Serbian. This attitude even widely prevailed into the 21st century and led to the U. S. War with Serbia over the Serbian attempts to control parts of neighboring countries where Serbs were in the minority. The Serbs were not unique in this respect. Germany, in WWI, had seized territory from France because there were large enclaves of Ethnic Germans in the Sudetenland. The Ancient Romans likewise asserted the protection of Roman Citizens anywhere in the known world.
Dominique Joseph Garat was a French Basque writer and in 1792 minister of Justice and in 1793 minister of Interior.
