Nations Quotes · Page 4

Entrepreneurship is the very back bone of our country and what makes us great - we are a nation of founders.

— Nancy Lublin

My mother used to say when we were children, 'When a boy gets a stick in his hand, his brains run out…

— Jane Jacobs

A nation has the right to defend itself, but when it comes to the broader issue of peace and security, the legitimacy…

— Kofi Annan

There was a real choice when [Barack Obama] became president. It was a very difficult choice - to say, "We're not going…

— Edward Snowden

Because when I have been busy at the United Nations during crises, it has meant working day and night.

— Pauline Frederick

China has a rich history that has spanned millennia. It consists of the histories of many nations and regions.

— Ai Weiwei

Tribe follows tribe, nations follow nations like the tides of the sea. It is the order of nature, and regret is useless.

— Chief Seattle

I call on the Iranian people: it is not too late to replace the corrupt regime and return to your glorious Persian…

— Shimon Peres

It is conceivable that God might have ordained to preach the Gospel directly to man through dreams, visions and revelations. But as…

— J. Oswald Sanders

The U.N.'s driving mission is to accumulate power at the expense of the sovereignity of individual nations and fundamental individual rights, and…

— Wayne LaPierre

We have to consider who is going to be the best prime minister to take on a "one nation" agenda.

— Damian Green

[W]ar is a question, under our constitution, not of Executive, but of Legislative cognizance. It belongs to Congress to say whether the…

— Alexander Hamilton

I was told that the privileged and the people formed two nations.

— Benjamin Disraeli

Though this nation has proudly thought of itself as an ethnic melting pot, in things racial we have always been and I…

— Eric Holder

Conservation and rural-life policies are really two sides of the same policy; and down at the bottom this policy rests upon the…

— Theodore Roosevelt

The Attainment of freedom, whether for a person, a nation or a world, must be in exact proportion to the attainment of…

— Mahatma Gandhi

Future lawyers should be more aware that law is not a system of abstract logic, but the web of arrangements, rooted in…

— Felix Frankfurter

With respect to where we are now, we have a voluntary army. And if we ever go back to conscription I hope…

— Colin Powell

The steadily inward look leads us all to death, nations as well as persons, and is equally infantile in them all. Perhaps…

— Margery Wilson

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

Americans are the nicest, most generous, and sentimental people on earth. Yet Americans have killed more unborn children than any nation in…

— Walker Percy

There is no nation in the whole world desiring war.

— Joseph Stalin

Each nation feels superior to other nations. That breeds patriotism - and wars.

— Dale Carnegie

For all the civilians saved thanks to the presence of peacekeepers, there have been those who were lost - the United Nations…

— Jan Eliasson

Here I encounter the most popular fallacy of our times. It is not considered sufficient that the law should guarantee to every…

— Frederic Bastiat