I am always sorry when any language is lost, because languages are the pedigrees of nations. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Our flag is read, white and blue, but our nation is a rainbown-red, yellow, brown, black and white - and we're all… — Jesse Jackson Copy Share Image
I wasn't a great communicator, but I communicated great things, and they didn't spring full-bloom from my brow - they came from… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
But the simple truth is that we've lost control of our own borders, and no nation can do that and survive. — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
The students at Gallaudet University deserve our congratulations. They educated the nation about deafness, and won a long overdue victory for all… — Michael Dukakis Copy Share Image
Safety from external danger is the most powerful director of national conduct. To be more safe, [nations] at length become willing to… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
Never lose your faith in the American Dream. She's a nation under God, and God has never let a good American down. — Michael Moriarty Copy Share Image
Sweden formally writing back to the United Nations to say, 'No, we're not going to [recognise the UN ruling], so leaving open… — Julian Assange Copy Share Image
Churchill was a brilliant and inspiring rhetorician, but one of the first things he did as the head of the British nation… — Nicholson Baker Copy Share Image
There is a need in every generation to study the past, to absorb its spirit, to preserve its messages...it's a collaboration of… — Christopher Tunnard Copy Share Image
The digital revolution has deepened the crisis within representative democracy. But as it forces its demise, it might also dictate its future.… — Eduardo Paes Copy Share Image
Suppose a nation in some distant region should take the Bible for their only law book, and every member should regulate his… — John Adams Copy Share Image
Both Bush as well, as Tony Blair, are undermining an idea which was sponsored by their predecessors. They do not care. Is… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
Each individual person is very important. Each person has tremendous potential. She or he alone can influence the lives of others within… — Muhammad Yunus Copy Share Image
The interaction between human rights campaigners from Pakistan and India was a big taboo in the 1980s. When we started traveling to… — Asma Jahangir Copy Share Image
Beyond the borders of wealthy countries like the United States, in developing countries where most people in the world live, the impacts… — Amy Goodman Copy Share Image
If you look at the minutes of the constitutional convention - which we have - Madison who was the main framer, proceeded… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
It is contended by many that ours is a Christian government, founded upon the Bible, and that all who look upon the… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
According to the United Nations Special Commission [UNSCOM], which carried out inspections in Iraq for the better part of a decade, Iraq… — Richard Armitage Copy Share Image
Whenever the government of the United States shall break up, it will probably be in consequence of a false direction having been… — James F. Cooper Copy Share Image
If I say look unless you change your leaders I will not give you any aid, you are likely to have people… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
You know, NATO as a military alliance has something called Article 5, and basically it says this: An attack on one is… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
When the United Nations was born it was believed to be a positive instrument for peace. From this exalted position it became… — Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit Copy Share Image
“The state does not oppose the freedom of people to express their particular cultural attachments, but nor does it nurture such expression—rather… — Will Kymlicka Copy Share Image
The future belongs to Science. More and more she will control the destinies of the nations. Already she has them in her… — William Osler Copy Share Image
I am opposed to globalism, I am opposed to colonialism, I am opposed to any sort of complusion of one nation over… — David Duke Copy Share Image
Whether addressing immediate crises or building long-term foundations of peace, the United Nations will remain committed to solutions that advance the global… — Ban Ki-moon Copy Share Image
Nations have the wrong granularity. They’re too small to be global and too big to be local, and all they can think… — Nicholas Negroponte Copy Share Image
At the United Nations, that's the number one comment I get is they're just so happy to see the United States lead… — Nikki Haley Copy Share Image
The mobilization of world opinion and methods of negotiation should be developed and used by every nation in order to strengthen the… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
No nation being under another nation can accept gifts, and kick at the responsibility attached to those gifts, imposed by the conquering… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The gap between the rich and the poor is wider in the United States than it is in any of the other… — Gerald Celente Copy Share Image
Because when I have been busy at the United Nations during crises, it has meant working day and night. — Pauline Frederick Copy Share Image
I have frequently pointed out that the future belongs to nations with grains and not guns. — M. S. Swaminathan Copy Share Image
Great nations are never impoverished by private, though they sometimes are by public prodigality and misconduct. — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
Wise laws and just restraints are to a noble nation not chains, but chains of mail, -- strength and defense, though something… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Americans will quarrel over how, who, or what to rescue or save, but the idea that the nation ought to be off… — Nicholas von Hoffman Copy Share Image
There is but one law for all, namely that law which governs all law, the law of our Creator, the law of… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
I wish to express my hope that the efforts of our nations, nationalities and peoples in the direction of the development of… — Girma Woldegiorgis Copy Share Image
One of our defects as a nation is a tendency to use what have been called "weasel words." — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image