Nations Quotes · Page 13

I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

All states and nations, however great, bloom for a season and are replaced.

— Norman Davies

An army is a diversion of energy from the productive life of a nation.

— Isabel Paterson

The United Nations has no business in our elections.

— David Vitter

In the 21st century nations don't invade other nations.

— John McCain

When two nations are fighting, the duty of a votary of ahimsa is to stop the war.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Free trade is very important if we respect equality among nations.

— Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva

Scotland is a great nation, but its horses are very uncomfortable.

— Mel Gibson

I don't see why, if you look at how the Australian culture and psyche is, that we can't be amongst the most…

— Andrew Forrest

Every nation must now develop an overriding loyalty to mankind as a whole in order to preserve the best in their individual…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom. As nations become corrupt and vicious, they have more need of masters.

— Benjamin Franklin

Nations are becoming less relevant in a world where everyone and everything is interconnected. The connections that matter most are again becoming…

— Robert Reich

There is no better form of trade a developing nation can engage in than to sell services provided by an educated population.

— Brian Behlendorf

“He is the King of all nations. The God of all creation. He is able to do great things.”

— Gift Gugu Mona

GUNPOWDER, n. An agency employed by civilized nations for the settlement of disputes which might become troublesome if left unadjusted.

— Ambrose Bierce

Commit yourself to the noble struggle for human rights. You will make a greater person of yourself, a greater nation of your…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

Despite repeated calls for reform from nations like the United Kingdom, Germany and Japan, the court has become an ineffective, unaccountable and…

— Robert C. O'Brien

We owe more money than any Nation in the World, and we are LOWERING TAXES. When is the time to pay off…

— Will Rogers

[The Constitution] will not be saved in Washington. It will be saved by the citizens of this nation who love and cherish…

— Ezra Taft Benson

The United States must also continue to push the United Nations Security Council for strong action to thwart Iran's nuclear ambitions. In…

— Allyson Schwartz

I believe it is our values and our ideals that ultimately bind us together as a nation. But it is the English…

— Asa Hutchinson

But it is well to remember that we are dealing with nations every one of which has a direct individual interest to…

— Henry Cabot Lodge

Illiteracy must be banished from the land if we shall attain that high destiny as the foremost of the enlightened nations of…

— William McKinley

A child born in a wealthy country is likely to consume, waste, and pollute more in his lifetime than 50 children born…

— George Carey

O Eternal Father, we commend to Thy protection and care the members of the Marine Corps. Guide and direct them in the…

— Henry Knox Sherrill

All the forms of civil polity have been tried by mankind, except one, and that seems to have been reserved in Providence…

— Ezra Stiles

There are some who ask us to believe that if we want the best of times for ourselves, the fit and the…

— Mario Cuomo

But two things are wanting in American civilization - a keener and deeper, broader and tenderer sense of justice - a sense…

— Frances Harper

Our nations are run by absolute worthless scum, our streets are taken over by sub-humans, the food we eat and the water…

— Varg Vikernes

Of all the enemies to public liberty, war is perhaps the most to be dreaded, because it comprises and develops the germ…

— James Madison

The widespread distribution of private property ownership is the cornerstone of American liberty. Without it neither our free enterprise system nor our…

— Jeffrey H Reiman

America needs the best education system in the world. We have it in higher education. We do not have it in general…

— John Glenn

Let reverence for the laws . . . become the political religion of the nation.

— Abraham Lincoln

In a nation of sheep, one brave man forms a majority.

— Edward Abbey

The world is weary of hate. We see the fatigue overcoming the Western nations.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Not merely a nation but a nation of nations.

— Lyndon B. Johnson

In the face of all this evil, we remain strong and united, 'One Nation Under God.'

— George W. Bush

Israel is the Jimmy Saville of nation states,

— Alexei Sayle

A foreign nation is a kind of contemporaneous posterity.

— Horace Binney Wallace

What is poetry which does not save nations or people?

— Czeslaw Milosz