Nations Quotes · Page 61

Even if our motives are presently misunderstood. We will reach the goal of freedom in Birmingham and all over the nation, because…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

Anacalypsis: An Attempt to Draw Aside the Veil of the Saitic or an Inquiry into the Origin of Languages, Nations and Religions.

— Godfrey Higgins

People and nations wither away without the freedom to question what is presented to them as the truth.

— Geert Wilders

The English delight in Silence more than any other European Nation, if the Remarks which are made on us by Foreigners are…

— Joseph Addison

For total greed, rapacity, heartlessness, and irresponsibility there is nothing to match a nation.

— Lewis Thomas

I thought a lot about our Nation and what I should do as President. And Sunday night before last, I made a…

— Jimmy Carter

Girls should be brought up to be comrades and helpers, not to be dolls. They should take a real and not a…

— Robert Baden-Powell

During a national crisis, we as a nation become a single community and no one should take advantage of a crisis.

— Tom Vilsack

It is possible, I suppose, that we are returning to a Dark Age. What is frightening is that violence is not only…

— May Sarton

After months of lies, the president [Bill Clinton] has given millions of people around the world reason to doubt that he has…

— Dick Armey

And this is my solemn pledge: I will work to build a single nation of justice and opportunity. I know this is…

— George W. Bush

Once upon a time, the most successful Democratic leader of them all, FDR, looked south and said I see one third of…

— Zell Miller

Well, as soon as [Donald Trump] travels to 112 countries and negotiates a peace deal, a cease-fire, a release of dissidents, an…

— Donald Trump

The German people are not a warlike nation. It is a soldierly one, which means it does not want a war, but…

— Adolf Hitler

Including everyone in the economic, wealth-creating life of the nation is today the best way for Labor (Australian Labor Party) to meet…

— Julia Gillard

No despot ever flung forth his legions to die in foreign conquest, no privilege-ruled nation ever erupted across its borders, to lock…

— Margaret Sanger

Now you are trying to recover it through Irangate. I know that. But it will cost you a lot. And if you…

— Yasser Arafat

Dublin ... is not only the capital of a nation, but the capital of an idea. The idea of Irishness is not…

— Jan Morris

Ladies are always of great use to the party they espouse, and never fail to win over numbers to it. Lovers, according…

— Joseph Addison

The experience of the ages that are past, the hopes of the ages that are yet to come, unite their voices in…

— Horace Mann

I don't mean to imply that we are in imminent danger of being wiped off the face of the earth - at…

— Eileen Claussen

[Alex] Haley felt he could make a solid case in favor of racial integration by showing what was - to white America…

— Manning Marable

I was standing next to a famed geo-politician when the first news of the Argentine attack [on the Faulkland Islands] was received,…

— William Safire

I feel for the first time in my life that I have really come to understand what the gospel actually is. It…

— James Jordan

Oh! like a wreath, let Christmas mirth To-day encircle all the earth, And bind the nations with the love That Jesus brought…

— Maud Lindsay

Let me make the superstitions of a nation and I care not who makes its laws or its songs either.

— Mark Twain

Poverty devastates families, communities and nations. It causes instability and political unrest and fuels conflict.

— Kofi Annan

We live in a nation where governments destroy freedom, the press destroys information, religion destroys morals, and our banks destroy the economy.

— Nishan Panwar

The most technologically advanced nations are the ones that win economically and militarily.

— Jon Husted

In a nation of millions and a world of billions, the individual is still the first and basic agent of change.

— Lyndon B. Johnson

Give me an educated mother, I shall promise you the birth of a civilized, educated nation

— Napoleon Bonaparte

There is no history worthy attention save that of free nations; the history of nations under the sway of despotism is no…

— Nicolas Chamfort

Lasting peace and security in Iraq and Afghanistan will be achieved when we establish the conditions for democratic, economically viable nations.

— John Warner

We estimate the wisdom of nations by seeing what they did with their surplus capital.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The last loud trumpet's wondrous sound, Shall thro' the rending tombs rebound, And wake the nations under ground.

— Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl of Roscommon

So you know, everyone points out Greece's default record, but the history of a lot of sovereign nations is not a good…

— James Chanos

It is time for all civilized nations to stop the horrors that are taking place in Syria and demand a political solution.

— Nikki Haley

We may scavenge the dross of the nation, we may shudder past bloody sod, But we thrill to the new revelation that…

— Robert Haven Schauffler

It strengthens the bonds between nations to have the same civil laws and the same monetary system.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

I have ever hated all nations, professions, and communities, and all my love is toward individuals.

— Jonathan Swift