Nations Quotes · Page 43

All other nations are drinking Ray Charles beer and we are drinking Barry Manilow.

— Dave Barry

Not with dreams, but with blood and with iron, Shall a nation be moulded at last.

— Algernon Charles Swinburne

I want to see the U.S become an Islamic nation.

— Ibrahim Hooper

Manchester is the belly and guts of the nation

— George Orwell

The state has no place in the nation's bedrooms.

— Pierre Trudeau

A nation is as great, and only as great, as her rank and file.

— Woodrow Wilson

A mother is a school. Empower her; and you empower a great nation.

— Hafez Ibrahim

Is not that state a warning and a judgment for our heavy sins as a nation?

— William E. Gladstone

At a time when there is so much tension in the world - between cultures, and nations, and so forth - there…

— Emma Walton Hamilton

The haughty American nation ... makes the Negro clean its boots and then proves the moral and physical inferiority of the Negro…

— George Bernard Shaw

To associate my name with the United Nations is the best thing that could have happened to me.

— Ronaldo

I had been attracted by Malcolm X when he was still a member of the Nation of Islam.

— Sekou Odinga

That is the issue with signing young players from other big European football nations - at some point, they will want to…

— Paul Scholes

Kinship among nations is not determined in such measurements as proximity of size and age.

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

The degree of a nation’s civilization can be seen in the way it treats its prisoners

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

There is no bigger judgment for a president of the United States than how you take a nation to war.

— John F. Kerry

The fundamental basis of this Nation's law was given to Moses on the Mount. The fundamental basis of our Bill of Rights…

— Harry S. Truman

For nearly two hundred years, our nation has derived its strength from the diversity of its people and of their beliefs. That…

— Gerald R. Ford

I think we have to get NATO to go into the Middle East with us, in addition to surrounding nations, and we…

— Donald Trump

Fortunately for Canada it is part of the so-called Five Eyes network, along with the U.S., Britain, Australia and New Zealand. These…

— Neil Macdonald

Not to destroy but to construct, I hold the unconquerable belief that science and peace will triumph over ignorance and war that…

— Adlai E. Stevenson

More than 10,000 sightings have been reported, the majority of which cannot be accounted for by any 'scientific' explanation. . .I am…

— Hugh Dowding, 1st Baron Dowding

Old Dublin City there is no doubtin' Bates every city upon the say. 'Tis there you'd hear O'Connell spoutin' And Lady Morgan…

— Charles Lever

Many savage nations worship trees, and I really think my first feeling would be one of delight and interest rather than of…

— John Lubbock

There was a solemn article in the local paper seriously advocating systematic exterminating of the entire German nation as the only proper…

— J. R. R. Tolkien

“the aforesaid disagreement between these men sprang from a misunderstanding. And the cause of it is that each thinks he is better…

— Halldór Laxness

Every thing useful and beneficial to man, seems to be connected with obedience to the laws of his nature, the inclinations, the…

— Samuel Williams

There are many female gods recognized and honored by the tribes and Nations. Femaleness was highly valued, both respected and feared, and…

— Paula Gunn Allen

In the earlier days of history, kings and leaders went to the battlefield with their men; but today, those who determine that…

— Paramahansa Yogananda

Destroying the nation state are mainly three things: the global economy, global communication technology and global culture. And this is where we…

— Tariq Ramadan

Whereas Iraq has consistently breached its cease-fire agreement between Iraq and the United States, entered into on March 3, 1991, by failing…

— Tom Harkin

To a large extent, the American church has become merged with the world. It has adopted so many of the world's ideals…

— Billy Graham

The struggle for your own character is the struggle for the nation's character.

— William J. Clinton

We're not into nation-building. We're into justice.

— George W. Bush

No one has ever succeeded in keeping nations at war except by lies.

— Salvador de Madariaga

Don Rumsfeld is the finest secretary of defense the nation has ever had.

— Dick Cheney

The Middle Eastern states aren't nations; they're quarrels with borders.

— P. J. O'Rourke

Biofuels are the future of energy in this nation and around the world

— Rod Blagojevich

How can anybody who is the head of a nation afford not to be a prag-matist?

— Indira Gandhi

Justice is peculiarly indispensable to nations.

— Albert Pike