Nations Quotes · Page 105

The Attainment of freedom, whether for a person, a nation or a world, must be in exact proportion to the attainment of…

— Mahatma Gandhi

A nation is the sum of its memories, and when those memories are allowed to die, it is less of a nation.

— Peter Hitchens

India does not have a problem of people grabbing share from a fixed pie. India is one of the few nations where…

— Arundhati Bhattacharya

The best nations are those most widely related; and navigation, as effecting a world-wide mixture, is the most potent advancer ofnations.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I do not dislike the French from the vulgar antipathy between neighboring nations, but for their insolent and unfounded air of superiority.

— Horace Walpole

But he has gone, A nation's memory and veneration, Among the radiant, ever venturing on, Somewhere, with morning, as such spirits will.

— John Masefield

I look askance at any movement which assists in making the peacemaker among nations merely a national warrior.

— Arthur Hays Sulzberger

If you stand with the Customs and Border Protection officers who staff the passport booths at Dulles airport near the nation's capital,…

— David K. Shipler

Sound moral principle is the only sure evidence of strength, the only firm foundation of greatness and perpetuity. Where this is lacking,…

— Orson F. Whitney

Every honor is appropriate for the courageous Americans who made the supreme sacrifice for our Nation at Pearl Harbor and in the…

— Ronald Reagan

Genuine peace must be the product of many nations, the sum of many acts. It must be dynamic, not static, changing to…

— John F. Kennedy

No nation has the right to bring about a revolution, even though such a change may be most urgently needed, if the…

— Madame de Stael

Our country is still young and its potential is still enormous. We should remember, as we look toward the future, that the…

— Henry Ford

In the emerging global economy, everything is mobile: capital, factories, even entire industries. The only resource that's really rooted in a nation--and…

— William J. Clinton

In every particular state of the world, those nations which are strongest tend to prevail over the others; and in certain marked…

— Walter Bagehot

No choice we can make as a nation lies between our history and our geography. We can hardly change either of them.…

— Paul Keating

As far as I know, the question of whether and how it could be strategically or morally justified was never the subject…

— Anonymous

Those of us who have the privilege to serve this country have an obligation to do our job as best we can.…

— Barack Obama

Now more than ever the people are responsible for the character of their Congress. If that body be ignorant, reckless, and corrupt,…

— James A. Garfield

While the agreement signed in Paris between 195 nations to combat climate change was historic and significant, it's still vague and lacks…

— John B. Quigley

Man has bought brains, but all the millions in the world have failed to buy love. Man has subdued bodies, but all…

— Emma Goldman

So that’s what we want is a secure and sovereign nation and, you know, I don’t know that all of you are…

— Sharron Angle

The implications of the transfer of full sovereignty from separate nations to a World Organization. . .Political unification in some sort of…

— Julian Huxley

He that is to govern a whole Nation , must read in himself, not this, or that particular man; but Mankind; which…

— Thomas Hobbes

I am deeply convinced that God is present both in the lives of every person and also in the lives of entire…

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Throughout American history our presidents have invoked our nation's founding fathers. This is particularly true of recent presidents.

— Paul Kengor

There are men who, by their sympathetic attractions, carry nations with them, and lead the activity of the human race.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Today different ethnic groups and different nations come together due to common sense.

— Dalai Lama

Children are like buds in a garden and should be carefully and lovingly nurtured, as they are the future of the nation…

— Jawaharlal Nehru

A nation is a body of people who have done great things together in the past and hope to do great things…

— Frank Underhill

I never considered myself a patriot. I like to think I recognize only humanity as my nation.

— Isaac Asimov

Our nation honors its unbroken line of fallen heroes and I see many of them in the audience here today.

— Barack Obama

A German wine label is one of the things life's too short for, a daunting testimony to that peculiar nation's love of…

— Kingsley Amis

It would be easier for the Devil to go to church and cross himself with holy water than for these people to…

— Adolf Hitler

[A] spirit of justice and friendly accomodation...is our duty and our interest to cultivate with all nations.

— Thomas Jefferson

It can take greater courage to stand in opposition to the views of your neighbors or nation than to confront an enemy…

— George McGovern

A nation that encourages its people to spend more and save less promotes economic backwardness, social decay and its own financial doom.

— Kurt Richebacher

We cannot expect that all nations will adopt like systems, for conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.

— Anonymous

The black nation of Egypt is the only country that has a science named after its culture: Egyptology

— Malcolm X

There is only one China. Taiwan is not independent. It does not enjoy sovereignty as a nation.

— Colin Powell