--- title: "8 Individual Nations Quotes by 8 authors" description: "Browse 8 Individual Nations quotes by 8 authors. Discover the best Individual Nations sayings and thoughts." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/441/wayne-lapierre-3321_driving_the-u-n-s-driving-mission-is-to-accumula_32261.jpg" --- > [The U.N.'s driving mission is to accumulate power at the expense of the sovereignity of individual nations and fundamental individual rights, and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wayne-lapierre/the-u-n-s-driving-mission-is-to-accumulate-power-at-the-expense-of/) [Wayne LaPierre](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wayne-lapierre/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/441/wayne-lapierre-3321_driving_the-u-n-s-driving-mission-is-to-accumula_32261.jpg) > [“The number of individuals who know how to make a can of Coke is zero. The number of individual nations that could…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/the-number-of-individuals-who-know-how-to-make-a-can-of-coke-is-zero/) [Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anonymous/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/503/anonymous-1_quote_the-number-of-individuals-who-know-how-t_42911.jpg) > [It would appear that, on the level of individual nations and of international relations, the free market is the most efficient instrument…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pope-john-paul-ii/it-would-appear-that-on-the-level-of-individual-nations-and-of/) [Pope John Paul II](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pope-john-paul-ii/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b4f/pope-john-paul-ii-485_capitalism_it-would-appear-that-on-the-level-of-ind_763193.jpg) > [“One World is not abolishing frontiers, which would lead to a surge in migration, create tension and destabilise life on our planet.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mouloud-benzadi/one-world-is-not-abolishing-frontiers-which-would-lead-to-a-surge-in/) [Mouloud Benzadi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mouloud-benzadi/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/402/mouloud-benzadi-2369_borders_one-world-is-not-abolishing-frontiers-wh_1498863.jpg) > [Individual nations have offered their own contributions to income inequality - financial deregulation and upper-bracket tax cuts in the United States; insider…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/chrystia-freeland/individual-nations-have-offered-their-own-contributions-to-income/) [Chrystia Freeland](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/chrystia-freeland/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/548/chrystia-freeland-5308_income-inequality_individual-nations-have-offered-their-ow_2020256.jpg) > [The United Nations would probably have to rest on two pillars: one constituted by an assembly of equal executive representatives of individual…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/vaclav-havel/the-united-nations-would-probably-have-to-rest-on-two-pillars-one/) [Vaclav Havel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/vaclav-havel/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f83/vaclav-havel-2013_assembly_the-united-nations-would-probably-have-t_2173902.jpg) > [Character, in the long run, is the decisive factor in the life of an individual and of nations alike.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/theodore-roosevelt/character-in-the-long-run-is-the-decisive-factor-in-the-life-of-an/) [Theodore Roosevelt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/theodore-roosevelt/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b5f/theodore-roosevelt-218_character_character-in-the-long-run-is-the-decisiv_2599512.jpg) > [To be sure, China is nowhere as powerful as the U.S., but it has acquired the ability to impose its will on…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sanjaya-baru/to-be-sure-china-is-nowhere-as-powerful-as-the-u-s-but-it-has/) [Sanjaya Baru](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sanjaya-baru/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c3d/sanjaya-baru-3832_around-the-world_to-be-sure-china-is-nowhere-as-powerful_2647153.jpg) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/individual-nations/#itemlist", "name": "Individual Nations Quotes", "numberOfItems": 8, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "The U.N.'s driving mission is to accumulate power at the expense of the sovereignity of individual nations and fundamental individual rights, and its gun-ban treaty proves it.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Wayne LaPierre" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wayne-lapierre/the-u-n-s-driving-mission-is-to-accumulate-power-at-the-expense-of/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/441/wayne-lapierre-3321_driving_the-u-n-s-driving-mission-is-to-accumula_32261.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/441/wayne-lapierre-3321_driving_the-u-n-s-driving-mission-is-to-accumula_32261.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/441/wayne-lapierre-3321_driving_the-u-n-s-driving-mission-is-to-accumula_32261.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“The U.N.'s driving mission is to accumulate power at the expense of the sovereignity of individual nations…” — Wayne LaPierre", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“The number of individuals who know how to make a can of Coke is zero. 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