Run against the grain of a nation's genius and see where you get with your laws. — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
It is nationalism which engenders nations, and not the other way round. — Ernest Gellner Copy Share Image
Money, not morality, is the principle commerce of civilized nations. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Imperialism is an institution under which one nation asserts the right to seize the land or at least to control the government… — John T. Flynn Copy Share Image
The unattractive thing about chauvinism is not so much the aversion to other nations as the love of one's own. — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
Who are we to say what's right for civilizations that were already thousands of years old when our own nation came into… — Unita Blackwell Copy Share Image
I don't know how it is the most unattractive creatures of every nation seem to be the ones who travel. — Elinor Glyn Copy Share Image
Change is a process which has to be managed. If it's managed and managed well in the interest of the nation and… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
People as well as nations perish without scriptures. The scriptures are spiritual food for our spirit, which is just as important as… — L. Lionel Kendrick Copy Share Image
Successful nations make a point of trying to learn from their neighbors. The Arab world has been taught over generations only to… — Bret Stephens Copy Share Image
If the United Nations is not as united as it should be, that is because it is a reflection of the world… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
A nation has a soul, a spiritual principle. One is in the past, the other in the present. One is the possession… — Ernest Renan Copy Share Image
Parliament is a deliberative assembly of one nation.You choose a Member indeed; but when you have chosen him, heisnotthe Member for Bristol,… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
But assuming the same premises, to wit, that all men are equal by the law of nature and of nations, the right… — William H. Seward Copy Share Image
What I know for sure is that behind every catastrophe, there are great lessons to be learned. Among the many that we… — Oprah Winfrey Copy Share Image
In a nation ruled by swine, all pigs are upward mobile - and the rest of us are fucked until we can… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
It is a melancholy truth, that a suppression of the press could not more completely deprive the nation of its benefits than… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
If a single act of folly was more responsible for this explosion than any other it was the arbitrary and dangerous announced… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
In any nation in which people's rights have been subordinated to the rights of the few, in any totalitarian nation, the first… — Gerry Spence Copy Share Image
We have so few women in Congress. We are so underrepresented and whether we like it or not, we are in area… — Eleanor Smeal Copy Share Image
It's harder to end a war than begin one. Indeed, everything that American troops have done in Iraq -- all the fighting… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
We of an older generation can get along with what we have, though with growing hardship; but in your full manhood and… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The nation blest above all nations is she in whom the civic genius of the people does the saving day by day,… — William James Copy Share Image
No capitalists after any war were ever so well paid for money loaned to the nation that carried it on. No class… — Rutherford B. Hayes Copy Share Image
England was nothing, compared to continental nations until she had become commercial... until about the middle of the last century, when a… — Samuel Smiles Copy Share Image
The Kennedy assassination has demonstrated that most of the major events of world significance are masterfully planned and orchestrated by an elite… — L. Fletcher Prouty Copy Share Image
I believe we are going to have to prepare ourselves for the difficult and patient task of outgrowing rigid and intransigent nationalism,… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
Blowback is simply another way of saying that a nation reaps what it sows. — Chalmers Johnson Copy Share Image
The United States, for all its faults, is till the greatest nation in the country. — Spiro T. Agnew Copy Share Image
Both teachers and students must move ahead together for the nation to progress. — Narendra Modi Copy Share Image
“Great nations are built by great people, not just successful people” — Fela Durotoye Copy Share Image
Fraternity among nations, however, touches the deepest desire of human nature — Hjalmar Branting Copy Share Image
