Nations Quotes · Page 14

At the moment the British Common-wealth is a Commonwealth of White nation.

— Mahatma Gandhi

South Sudan is the youngest nation on the planet.

— Tom Hiddleston

God does not seek to destroy the evil nations, but their evil.

— Sholem Asch

I do believe that international trade agreements benefit both nations, always.

— Phil Knight

The United Nations ... [is] a place for prostitution under the feet of Americans.

— Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf

One of the enduring truths of the nation's capital is that bureaucrats survive.

— Gerald R. Ford

You can tell the condition of a nation by looking at the status of its women.

— Jawaharlal Nehru

The English as a race are not worth saving!

— Jack Straw

Give me an educated mother, I shall promise you the birth of a civilized, educated nation

— Napoleon Bonaparte

We estimate the wisdom of nations by seeing what they did with their surplus capital.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I cannot determine what people or nations should do, but I do think that extremism gives birth to following and subsequent extremism.

— Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

When you help make people healthier, it makes the nation healthier; it makes the world healthier. It makes the economy healthier.

— Shonda Rhimes

If 600,000 people have to die in order for the nation to live, then 600,000 people will die.

— Abraham Lincoln

Our children are the rock on which our future will be built, our greatest asset as a nation

— Nelson Mandela

Everybody should take each other as they are, white, black, Indians, Creole. Then there would be no prejudice, nations would get along.

— Langston Hughes

There was never a nation that became great until it came to the knowledge that it had nowhere in the world to…

— Charles Dudley Warner

France and Germany were opposed to a maritime blockade of the Adriatic Sea without a mandate from the United Nations (UN). So,…

— Paul Virilio

Neither this nation nor this party can afford a candidate so captive to the demands of the intolerant right that we end…

— Arlen Specter

The sublimated idealism of the Enlightenment, the spirit of the League of Nations and of the United Nations Charter have not proved…

— Christopher Dawson

It's plain that the American right wing, the Republicans and some sections of the Democratic Party, don't really care about international norms.…

— Vijay Prashad

We have had in our nation a well-celebrated Declaration of Independence. But our success as a country will depend upon a new…

— Cory Booker

We are honored to have had the opportunity to serve our country under difficult circumstances. We are profoundly grateful to our Commander-in-Chief…

— Jeremiah Denton

I say to the [European countries]: Hurry up and apologize to our nation, because if you do not, you will regret it.…

— Khaled Mashal

America is not a nation of separation. All our citizens are Americans. The common denominator is our language. Our language is English.…

— James Traficant

...Sean Penn claimed to be 'serv[ing] the country' by giving aid and comfort to an enemy about to be attacked by the…

— Ann Coulter

“it will be objected that a constantly increasing population makes resistance and conservation a hopeless battle. this is true. unless a way…

— Edward Abbey

The leviathan state, that monster devouring civilization in this century, is in the throes of death. This is not a wish or…

— Llewellyn Rockwell

Donald Trump creates scapegoats in Muslims and Mexican immigrants. He calls for the use of torture. He calls for killing the innocent…

— Mitt Romney

We understand it still that there is no easy road to freedom. We know it well that none of us acting alone…

— Nelson Mandela

We live in a very low state of the world, and pay unwilling tribute to government founded on force. There is not,…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

We believe that this initiative is a critical first step in our nation s effort to provide every student with a comprehensive,…

— Lily Eskelsen Garcia

Now you are trying to recover it through Irangate. I know that. But it will cost you a lot. And if you…

— Yasser Arafat

The nationalist has a broad hatred and a narrow love.

— Andre Gide

When God wants to judge a nation, He gives them wicked rulers.

— John Calvin

You can tell the ideals of a nation by its advertisements.

— Anonymous

If the British are a nation of shopkeepers, Americans are a nation of shoppers.

— Ada Louise Huxtable

“How could we have discovered great lands, if we dare not travel?”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

Nations are divided, but we citizens need not be.

— Ian Goldin

No nation can last which has made a mob of itself, however generous at heart.

— John Ruskin

A nation for a continent, and a continent for a nation.

— Edmund Barton