Nations Quotes · Page 47

So you know, everyone points out Greece's default record, but the history of a lot of sovereign nations is not a good…

— James Chanos

The last loud trumpet's wondrous sound, Shall thro' the rending tombs rebound, And wake the nations under ground.

— Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl of Roscommon

The attacks in Orlando - the worst mass shooting and the worst attack on the LGBTQ community in our history - shocked…

— Donald Trump

Has our nation preserved, protected and defended the Constitution of the United States?

— Michael Farris

We in Wales see ourselves as a nation. We're not English. We're far from it. Yeah, we're part of the U.K. We've…

— Carwyn Jones

We need to remember that trade is a great peacemaker that enriches people and increases international understanding and ties between nations.

— Dan Quayle

What counts in a man or in a nation is not what the man or the nation can do, but what he…

— Theodore Roosevelt

One hundred nations in the UN have not agreed with us on just about everything that's come before them, where we're involved,…

— Ronald Reagan

The authors that in any nation last from age to age are very few, because there are very few that have any…

— Samuel Johnson

As a nation, we are on a path of rapid and deep systemic change to our health system, and it's going to…

— John E. McDonough

Toward all other nations, large and small, our attitude must be one of cordial and sincere friendship. We must show not only…

— Theodore Roosevelt

You never know how bad a situation is going to be until you come out of it. But the nation has had…

— James Green

Let's start affecting our whole city, and maybe we can affect the whole nation, the whole world. I'd like to affect it…

— Joel Osteen

All People and things are interdependent. The world has become so small that no nation can solve its problems alone, in isolation…

— Dalai Lama

...and for that they were rich,/And robbed the poor; and for that they were strong,/And scourged the weak; and for that they…

— Henry Taylor

American exceptionalism? Exceptional at what? Waging wars against innocent people for fake reasons? Exceptional at what? Being addicted to pharmaceutical drugs that…

— Gerald Celente

Throughout human history, in any great endeavour requiring the common effort of many nations and men and women everywhere, we have learned…

— Ban Ki-moon

We also need to encourage Americans to become more fiscally responsible themselves. We can do this by redesigning our tax system into…

— Edwin Feulner

The foes now are universal - poverty, famine, religious radicalization, desertification, drugs, proliferation of nuclear weapons, ecological devastation. They threaten all nations,…

— Shimon Peres

The founders of the United Nations sought to replace a world at war with a world of civilized order. They hoped that…

— Ronald Reagan

The future of peace and prosperity that we seek for all the world's peoples needs a foundation of tolerance, security, equality and…

— Kofi Annan

I know starting careers in troubled times is a challenge, but it is also a privilege. Because it's moments like these that…

— Barack Obama

Believing that war is contrary to the will of God and to common sense, and feeling that the way of peace is…

— Peace Pilgrim

I’m frankly sick of all the books and movies trying to predict when Jesus will return and we’ll get to start our…

— Mark Driscoll

It is one of the characteristics of a free and democratic nation that it have free and independent labor unions.

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

I have ever hated all nations, professions, and communities, and all my love is toward individuals.

— Jonathan Swift

It strengthens the bonds between nations to have the same civil laws and the same monetary system.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

We may scavenge the dross of the nation, we may shudder past bloody sod, But we thrill to the new revelation that…

— Robert Haven Schauffler

Let me make the superstitions of a nation and I care not who makes its laws or its songs either.

— Mark Twain

Oh! like a wreath, let Christmas mirth To-day encircle all the earth, And bind the nations with the love That Jesus brought…

— Maud Lindsay

Girls should be brought up to be comrades and helpers, not to be dolls. They should take a real and not a…

— Robert Baden-Powell

I thought a lot about our Nation and what I should do as President. And Sunday night before last, I made a…

— Jimmy Carter

During a national crisis, we as a nation become a single community and no one should take advantage of a crisis.

— Tom Vilsack

For total greed, rapacity, heartlessness, and irresponsibility there is nothing to match a nation.

— Lewis Thomas

The English delight in Silence more than any other European Nation, if the Remarks which are made on us by Foreigners are…

— Joseph Addison

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

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Lasting peace and security in Iraq and Afghanistan will be achieved when we establish the conditions for democratic, economically viable nations.

— John Warner

There is no history worthy attention save that of free nations; the history of nations under the sway of despotism is no…

— Nicolas Chamfort

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

— Napoleon Bonaparte

In a nation of millions and a world of billions, the individual is still the first and basic agent of change.

— Lyndon B. Johnson