Nations Quotes · Page 94

No genuine observer can decide otherwise than that the homes of a nation are the bulwarks of personal and national safety and…

— J. G. Holland

The United States is the most dishonest, ungodly, unspiritual nation that ever existed in the history of the planet.

— Dick Gregory

The nation-state became powerful in the wake of the French Revolution, whereas the nation-state has become powerless in light of globalization.

— Grace Lee Boggs

There is a rank due to the United States among nations which will be withheld, if not absolutely lost, by the reputation…

— George Washington

“There is no different nations, or people. There is no countries, and never was. There is, just a system we live in.”

— VicDo

The man of science, the artist, the philosopher are attached to their nations as much as the day-laborer and the merchant.

— Julien Benda

As a lover of truth, the national propaganda of all the belligerent nations sickened me. As a lover of civilization, the return…

— Bertrand Russell

I would be happy to accept asylum, political asylum, in India — a nation I love. In return, I will bring Mayawati…

— Julian Assange

As 17th U.S. Surgeon General, I was privileged to serve as the nation's doctor. I focused much of my time on promoting…

— Richard Carmona

One changed child eventually changes a family. A changed family will influence change in its church. Enough changed churches will transform a…

— Wess Stafford

Indeed, we have reached a level of complexity where simplicity itself is suspect. For example, the simple reality is that jobs migrate…

— Oliver DeMille

The United Nations will be at the heart of our international activities. France will assume its full responsibilities at the Security Council…

— Francois Hollande

Further, not only the United States, but the French, British, Germans and the United Nations all thought Hussein possessed weapons of mass…

— Jim Gerlach

It has become clear that America's civilian institutions of diplomacy and development have been chronically undermanned and underfunded for far too long…

— Robert M. Gates

The Founding Fathers believed that our Creator gave us certain inalienable rights. The Pledge of Allegiance simply reinforces the beliefs that led…

— Dennis Hastert

What has a great value to us as a nation is the internet itself. The internet is critical infrastructure to the United…

— Edward Snowden

I had come to realize the importance of the Nation, and of shared, communal, social responsibility, to be held as equally important…

— Thomas Paine

The real menace of our Republic is the invisible government which like a giant octopus sprawls its slimy legs over our cities,…

— John Francis Hylan

The reality is if we sit back and allow a few officials behind closed doors to launch offensive attacks without any oversight…

— Edward Snowden

Canada is the linchpin of the English-speaking world. Canada, with those relations of friendly, affectionate intimacy with the United States on the…

— Winston Churchill

“you know how I feel about the United Nations. From the beginning, it’s functioned as a one-world-order organization whose sole function is…

— Anonymous

Statistically speaking, giving in the church today is embarrassing at best. So, there needs to be a message, a movement that addresses…

— Bob Coy

The sacred obligation to the Union soldiers must not - will not be forgotten nor neglected. But those who fought against the…

— Rutherford B. Hayes

Europe has been at peace since 1945. But it is a restless peace thats shadowed by the threat of violence. Europe is…

— Lyndon B. Johnson

In my view, wholesome pleasure, sport, and recreation are as vital to this nation as productive work and should have a large…

— Walt Disney

It is not that the people want a BJP government or Modi as PM. The Nation wants to teach a lesson to…

— Narendra Modi

I ask myself, have nations ever declined from a loss of moral sense rather than from physical reasons or the pressure of…

— Barbara Tuchman

I'm not condemning the Catholic Church - it's too big, it's like condemning a nation and that would be prejudiced.

— David LaChapelle

I will insist that the Hebrews have done more to civilize man than any other nation.

— John Adams

witch-hunting misogyny is fiercely recurrent in this nation, even if its forms vary with the ages.

— Patricia J. Williams

Any society, any nation, is judged on the basis of how it treats its weakest members - the last, the least, the…

— Roger Mahony

For Castro, freedom starts with education. And if literacy alone were the yardstick, Cuba would rank as one of the freest nations…

— Barbara Walters

Consequently, the tone, particularly that of the Viennese anti-Semitic press, seemed to me unworthy of the cultural tradition of a great nation.

— Adolf Hitler

I believe we [americans] are strongest as a nation, when the president and Congress work together.

— Barack Obama

It's crazy that America gives such a paltry percentage of its GNP to the starving nations.

— David Gilmour

An economic policy which does not consider the well-being of all will not serve the purposes of peace and the growth of…

— Eleanor Roosevelt

Now is the time...for this nation to take a clearly leading role in space achievement, which in many ways may hold the…

— John F. Kennedy

Never was so much false arithmetic employed on any subject, as that which has been employed to persuade nations that it is…

— Thomas Jefferson

African people need to stop shouting 'nationtime' until they are clear about the responsibilities of running a nation.

— John Henrik Clarke

For a century longer, Rome still retains its outward form, but the swarming nations are now in full career.

— John Lothrop Motley