Nations Quotes · Page 162

Washington, where an insignificant individual may trespass on a nation's time.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Sometimes societies become too stupid to survive. A nation that takes Barack Obama's current rhetorical flourishes seriously is certainly well advanced along…

— Mark Steyn

“A nation could be full of great potentials and yet be poor and underdeveloped if those potentials are not recognized and harnessed…

— CLEMENT OGEDEGBE

I support strong sanctions and other penalties against those who aid violent extremists, brutalize their own people and have time and time…

— Ileana Ros-Lehtinen

But what is now encompassed by the one word (“school”) are two very different kinds of institutions that, in function, finance and…

— Jonathan Kozol

Without freedom of thought, there can be no such thing as wisdom; and no such thing as public liberty without freedom of…

— Benjamin Franklin

The Age of Nations is past. The task before us now, if we would not perish, is to build the Earth.

— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

What Malcolm X did not know is that back in 1962, a collaborator of Alex Haley, fellow named - a journalist named…

— Manning Marable

“It appears, accordingly, from the experience of all ages and nations, I believe, that the work done by freemen comes cheaper in…

— Adam Smith

I think we're in a global crisis of unprecedented scale, with global warming and climate change, and we don't have the solution…

— Barbara Marx Hubbard

The United States remains the only major country on earth that doesn't guarantee health care to all of our people. And yet…

— Hillary Clinton

Israel will not transfer Judea, Samaria, and the Gaza District to any foreign sovereign authority, [because] of the historic right of our…

— Menachem Begin

United Nations: Where America feeds the hands that bite it

— Gregory Nunn

The people who did this act on America, and who may be planning further acts, are evil people. They don't represent an…

— George W. Bush

I don't want to force the peacekeeping nations to feel like I'm pushing them out.

— Michel Martelly

Climate change is real, caused by human activity and already devastating our nation and planet. The United States must lead the world…

— Bernie Sanders

Soldiers who always remain faithful to their nation, who are always prepared to sacrifice their lives, are invincible.

— Subhas Chandra Bose

Saddam Hussein, influenced by fascism, ordered the deaths of tens of thousands of people, fought two disastrous wars, turned his nation into…

— Ted Rall

[Religion is a way of reconstructing] what has come to feel like a crumbling moral framework in the life of our nation.

— Joe Lieberman

It's time to join the ranks of nations that have put the ugliness of capital punishment behind them.

— Pete Buttigieg

The more I think of all that I have seen in the Confederate States, the more I feel inclined to say...'How can…

— Arthur Fremantle

I cannot think of anything characteristically American that was not produced by toil. I cannot think of any American man or woman…

— Calvin Coolidge

We [in USA] have people honestly believing that, if a president calls a war, you have to shut up and sing. That…

— Phil Donahue

If you want to remain a slave to the banks and want them to pay the cost of your own slavery, then…

— Josiah Stamp

Israel does not respect the principles or purposes of the United Nations charter nor the Universal Declaration of Human Rights,

— Evo Morales

Where are now the warriors of the world of the spirit? Where are those who raise their voices for truth, who lead…

— Lu Xun

It is almost a general rule that nations do not decline gradually. Instead they fall abruptly from their greatest heights.

— Robert Payne

Investment in the eradication of hunger today is a good business decision. If we fail to make this investment, it is doubtful…

— Alan Hassenfeld

Of all the nations in the world, the people of the United States like freedom maybe a little better than anybody else.

— Duncan Hunter

I am more interested in fair and balanced trade between nations than I am in free trade that encumbers us in a…

— Ted Yoho

Born enemies don't fight. Nations you would say were designed to go to war against each other by their skins, their language,…

— Jean Giraudoux

I say this as a Democrat, for whom the Republican domination of government threatens many values that I hold to be important…

— Orson Scott Card

If Australia wants an effective United Nations, we have to be comprehensively, not marginally, engaged.

— Kevin Rudd

Nonbelievers like myself stand beside you, dumbstruck by the Muslim hordes who chant death to whole nations of the living. But we…

— Sam Harris

Here in the United States our Muslim citizens are making many contributions in business, science and law, medicine and education, and in…

— George W. Bush

In my current work on global warming, I argue that the only apparent solution to the deep problem of climate change would…

— Philip Kitcher

Some people say that the West has a cruel history. These people also may see the achievements of Western countries - in…

— Dalai Lama

Animals are not brethren, they are not underlings; they are other nations, caught with ourselves in the net of life and time.

— Henry Beston

By common consent of the nations, gold and silver are the only true measure of value. They are the necessary regulators of…

— Hugh McCulloch

With a close parliament, if the Government wants to get a good outcome for the nation, they can't play a game of…

— Tony Burke