Nations Quotes · Page 16

There is not much danger of the smaller nations if the big nations will behave.

— Anonymous

When a nation is surrounded by weaponized nations, she has to equip herself.

— Anonymous

A nation's greatness is measured by how it treats its weakest members.

— Mahatma Gandhi

A nation will prosper to the degree that it honors it's teachers.

— Plato

nations decay from within more often than they surrender to outward assault.

— Ellen Glasgow

The disease of mutual distrust among nations is the bane of modern civilization

— Franz Boas

Great anger and violence can never build a nation.

— Nelson Mandela

I don't think our troops ought to be used for what's called nation building.

— George W. Bush

Nations around the world look to us for the leadership not merely by strength of arms but by strength of our convictions.

— Robert Kennedy

What is the history of mighty kingdoms and nations, but a detail of the ravages and cruelties of the powerful over the…

— Abigail Adams

A United Nations that will not stand up for human rights is a United Nations that cannot stand up for itself.

— Kofi Annan

“Even as individuals become families and families become communities, and communities become nations, so eventually must the nations draw together in peace.”

— Marjorie Watts

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

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

— Paul Kengor

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

— Isaac Asimov

I was an arden Hayes man, but that was natural, for I was pretty young at the time, I have since convinced…

— Mark Twain

There comes a time in the life of a nation, as in the life of an individual, when it must face great…

— Theodore Roosevelt

What is happening to teachers now across this nation is a disgrace. The attacks on them are a blot on our nation.…

— Diane Ravitch

The Language of the Dream/Night is contrary to that of Waking/Day. It is a language of Images and Sensations, the various dialects…

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Unless Americans come to realize that they are not stronger in the world because they have the bomb but weaker because of…

— Albert Einstein

Insurrection by means of guerrilla bands is the true method of warfare for all nations desirous of emancipating themselves from a foreign…

— Giuseppe Mazzini

If one does not wish to take the word of journalists, human rights groups, and the United Nations that Iraq conducted a…

— Timothy Noah

A nuclear war cannot be won and must never be fought. The only value in our two nations possessing nuclear weapons is…

— Ronald Reagan

Since trade ignores national boundaries and the manufacturer insists on having the world as a market, the flag of his nation must…

— Woodrow Wilson

America's Cold War veterans deserve every honor we can bestow upon them for their hard work and dedication to keeping our nation…

— Blanche Lincoln

Bring the absolute power to destroy other nations under the absolute control of all nations. Weapons of war must be abolished before…

— John F. Kennedy

I started writing novels while an undergraduate student, in an attempt to make sense of the city of Edinburgh, using a detective…

— Ian Rankin

I have always said that if Great Britain were defeated in war I hoped we should find a Hitler to lead us…

— Winston Churchill

I never ask if the market is going to go up or down because I don't know, and besides it doesn't matter.…

— John Templeton

The late Rev. Peter Gomes at The Memorial Church at Harvard was a true mentor to me when I was in college.…

— Seth Moulton

This propaganda of dis-associating Western Negroes from Africa is not a new one. For many years white propagandists have been printing tons…

— Marcus Garvey

It is only barbarous nations who have a sudden growth after a victory

— Victor Hugo

A mother is a school. Empower her; and you empower a great nation.

— Hafez Ibrahim

A nation is as great, and only as great, as her rank and file.

— Woodrow Wilson

Is not that state a warning and a judgment for our heavy sins as a nation?

— William E. Gladstone

The struggle for your own character is the struggle for the nation's character.

— William J. Clinton

We're not into nation-building. We're into justice.

— George W. Bush

Don Rumsfeld is the finest secretary of defense the nation has ever had.

— Dick Cheney

No one has ever succeeded in keeping nations at war except by lies.

— Salvador de Madariaga