Nations Quotes · Page 24

We're the only nation in the world where most of our poor people are fat.

— Phil Gramm

The core values of our constitution are at the heart of our nation's progress.

— Edward Kennedy

The laws of a nation form the most instructive portion of its history

— Anonymous

Lack of consistency is a weakness shared by all nations.

— Tariq Ramadan

Kings are for nations in their swaddling-clothes: France has attained her majority.

— Victor Hugo

Vulgarity in a king flatters the majority of the nation.

— George Bernard Shaw

Amongst democratic nations, each new generation is a new people.

— Alexis de Tocqueville

Let me issue and control a nation's money and I care not who writes the laws.

— Mayer Amschel Rothschild

Because of the friendship and common interests our two nations share, the U.S. has a stake in Ethiopia's prosperity, stability and success.

— Tom Malinowski

Volunteers are the only human beings on the face of the earth who reflect this nation's compassion, unselfish caring, patience, and just…

— Erma Bombeck

To have peace in the world, men & nations must embrace the nonviolent assertion that ends and means must cohere.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

We are in the the very midst of a revolution, the most complete, unexpected and remarkable of any in the history of…

— John Adams

Every foreign policy of every major nation involves reason, common sense, carrots and sticks. You can't have all carrots and no sticks.

— Fred Thompson

The United Nations has a proud record of helping millions of people in mine-affected countries.

— Ban Ki-moon

We can't allow the world's worst leaders to blackmail, threaten, hold freedom-loving nations hostage with the world's worst weapons.

— George W. Bush

Every U.S. citizen owes allegiance to our nation. Some Americans consider that anything less than high treason is allegiance.

— Cullen Hightower

Executive power is exercised by the President of the Governing Board who, with the title of President of the Republic of Chile,…

— Augusto Pinochet

The company Liberated People represents just not liberation of different nations around the world; it can be special liberation days. It can…

— Gbenga Akinnagbe

So I don't worry about, and people shouldn't worry about a draft I think we're in good shape, I really do. And,…

— George W. Bush

God was left out of the Constitution, but was furnished a front seat in this nations currency. ("In God we Trust") is…

— Mark Twain

I believe that life is valuable, even when it is unwanted, even when it is physically imperfect. I believe our society has…

— George W. Bush

In later life, as in earlier, only a few persons influence the formation of our character; the multitude pass us by like…

— Jean Paul

People being encouraged to make up their own minds and think for themselves is so important. This world talks endlessly about freedom…

— Jeanette Winterson

Despotic governments do not recognize the precious human component of the state, seeing its citizens only as a faceless, mindless -- and…

— Aung San Suu Kyi

War seems to me to be a mean, contemptible thing: I would rather be hacked in pieces than take part in such…

— Albert Einstein

Recent events in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina have reaffirmed for me, however, the complete folly of any Republican strategy to increase…

— Ward Connerly

Way back last summer I asked some of the most outstanding educational minds in this Nation to tackle this problem. I gave…

— Lyndon B. Johnson

We are thus in the position of having to borrow from Europe to defend Europe, of having to borrow from China and…

— Pat Buchanan

But whatever be their degree of talent it is no measure of their rights. Because Sir Isaac Newton was superior to others…

— Thomas Jefferson

Surely all Americans have the right to give their money only to those causes which they support. But what kind of society…

— Christopher McCandless

During bomb drills, we students were told to crouch under our desks. Apparently the desks used in classrooms in the fifties were…

— Dave Barry

Collective bargaining has always been the bedrock of the American labor movement. I hope that you will continue to anchor your movement…

— John F. Kennedy

I would rather see the United States respected than loved by other nations.

— Henry Cabot Lodge

Trickle down economics creates a nation of peons.

— Thom Hartmann

“Only when we pray for one another, we will have peace.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

men cannot be free in a nation where women are forbidden freedom.

— Pearl S. Buck

For history is to the nation as memory is to the individual.

— Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr

A nation that knows how to work will never suffer.

— Henry Ford

“calling on the 140 nations present to write action”

— Anonymous

Religion is an important institution. A nation without religion cannot survive.

— Mustafa Kemal Ataturk