Nations Quotes · Page 51

All nations teach their children to be "patriotic", and abuse the other nations for fostering nationalism.

— Richard Aldington

It is no accident that the rise of so many democracies took place in a time when the world's most influential nation…

— George W. Bush

Anyone who tells you that one political party has a monopoly on the best defense of our nation is committing a fraud…

— Wesley Clark

This nation has never lived without independence. We cannot and shall not live without it. Either independence or death.

— Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

Money powers prey upon the nation in times of peace & conspire against it in times of adversity.

— Abraham Lincoln

Every nation is destined, by the law of God and humanity, to form a free and equal community of brothers.

— Giuseppe Mazzini

Of the 22 industrialized nations of the world, we're dead last in per capita giving to poor people.

— Tony Campolo

Maybe some things that weren't so great were said about the Irish when they came. But Americans've done well by absorbing immigrants…

— Tim Kaine

It will afford me unfeigned satisfaction if my kingdom can add its quota toward the successful accomplishment of the most important astronomical…

— Kalakaua

Epcot Center also features pavilions built by various foreign nations, where you can experience an extremely realistic simulation of what life in…

— Dave Barry

Make a career of humanity. Commit yourself to the noble struggle for equal rights. You will make a greater person of yourself,…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

Fascistic leaders are aggressively macho and chauvinistic. They are xenophobic about people who they portray as outsiders or some sort of threat…

— Rachel Maddow

Twelve million illegal immigrants later, we are now living in a nation that is beset by people who are suicidal maniacs and…

— Fred Thompson

We will be misguided in our intentions if we point at one single thing and say that it will prevent war, unless,…

— Leslie Groves

All in all, the League of Nations is not inevitably bound, as some maintain from time to time, to degenerate into an…

— Hjalmar Branting

We need to remember that we can't compete endlessly with other nations that set their income taxes substantially lower than ours. They…

— Boris Johnson

In my judgment the people of no nation can lose their liberty so long as a Bill of Rights like ours survives…

— Hugo Black

There seem to be but three ways for a nation to acquire wealth. The first is by war, as the Romans did,…

— Benjamin Franklin

It is for these reasons that I believe we must expand day-care centers and provide other assistance which I have recommended to…

— John F. Kennedy

We are not a warlike people. Nor is our history filled with tales of aggressive adventures and imperialism, which might come as…

— Ronald Reagan

Among our many crimes as an imperialistic exploiter of other nations' cultures, stealing their movies ranks lower than selling them cigarettes but…

— Stephen Hunter

For a guy that grew up on 31st Street and Everroad Park West and played on Haw Creek and dreamed some day…

— Mike Pence

It is to the United States that all freemen look for the light and the hope of the world. Unless we dedicate…

— Omar N. Bradley

We can make this a more peaceful century if we cherish non-violence and concern for others’ well-being. It is possible. If the…

— Dalai Lama

Libya as a country is a relatively new concept. The period of Libya as a modern nation really starts after World War…

— Elliott Abrams

[The Library of Congress] is a multimedia encyclopedia. These are the tentacles of a nation.

— Daniel J. Boorstin

If he slices the budget like he slices a golf ball, the nation has nothing to worry about.

— Bob Hope

I joke that one of the rare times Egyptians identify as African is when the national soccer squad is playing in the…

— Mona Eltahawy

Nothing is good for a nation but that which arises from its own core and its own general wants, without apish imitation…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I must say that part of our national wealth is not only the nation's people but those people who lead them.

— Peter Cosgrove

Liberty is the luxury of self-discipline, that those nations historically who have failed to discipline themselves have had discipline imposed by others.

— Alistair Cooke

Universal education is not only a moral imperative but an economic necessity, to pave the way toward making many more nations self-sufficient…

— Desmond Tutu

Dissensions between Muslim nations run at least as deep, if not deeper, than those nations' resentment of the West.

— Salman Rushdie

A nation which does not remember what it was yesterday does not know where it is today.

— Robert E. Lee

For as long as multinational communities have existed, their weak point has always been the relations between different nations.

— Slobodan Milosević

I believe a healthy lifestyle is an extremely important thing which underpins solution to numerous important problems, including the health of the…

— Vladimir Putin

We cannot allow a beachhead of terrorism to form inside America. We cannot allow our nation to become a sanctuary for extremists.

— Donald Trump

I must say I'm surprised by how skeptical of the [Barack] Obama administration The Nation has been.

— Edward Snowden

At the present moment in world history nearly every nation must choose between alternative ways of life. The choice is too often…

— Harry S. Truman

We do not have the God-given right to shape every nation in our image or as we choose.

— Robert McNamara