Nations Quotes · Page 35

[Martin Luther] King subpoened the nation's conscience. He was killed for it.

— Bill Moyers

We're going to fight and we're going to fight for every stretch of this nation.

— Donald Trump

There is no way we can survive as a nation in the world without finding unity.

— Ngugi wa Thiong'o

It has been our fate as a nation not to have ideologies but to be one.

— Richard Hofstadter

How can I come from a nation? How can a human being come from a concept?

— Taiye Selasi

While other nations do battle, you lucky Austria, you wed.

— Maria Theresa

In a nation ruled by swine, all pigs are upward mobile.

— Hunter S. Thompson

We've become a nation of con men, living by selling double glazing to each other.

— Fred Dibnah

If the United States marches into Iraq without the backing of the United Nations, that will be done entirely without the backing…

— Richard Gere

In 30 years of travel and training leaders -164 nations - I've never met anyone who didn't need massive doses of love.

— Rick Warren

The Rosary is a magnificent and universal prayer for the needs of the Church, the nations and the entire world.

— Pope John XXIII

If wars in the future are to be prevented the nations must be united in their determination to keep the peace under…

— Harry S. Truman

America is the greatest nation in the history of the world. There's nothing like America.

— Rudy Giuliani

Particularly here in the United States there is a lack of comprehension about anything to do with the United Nations.

— Mary Robinson

False principles, which correspond with the bad as well as with the just aspirations of mankind, are a normal and necessary element…

— Lord Acton

“The greatness of a nation is dependent on the potentials of its citizens. Great nations don’t make great people, only great people…

— CLEMENT OGEDEGBE

If a well-constituted individual refrains from blazoning aught amiss or calamitous in his family, a nation in the like circumstance may without…

— Herman Melville

Justice and equity are twin Guardians that watch over men. From them are revealed such blessed and perspicuous words as are the…

— Bahá'u'lláh

The equations at which we arrive must be such that a person of any nation, by substituting the numerical values of the…

— James Clerk Maxwell

“Show me a single nation in the world with character, and whose country is ruled by fascists! That's impossible, because it's only…

— Mehmet Murat ildan

Our nation needs the BRAC process. No institution can remain successful if it does not adapt to its constantly changing environment. Our…

— Anthony Principi

We have become a nation of Kodachrome, Nikon, Instamatic addicts. But we haven't yet developed a clear idea of the ethics of…

— Ellen Goodman

In all nations an exceptional man exists that compensates the deficiencies of the remainder. In those moments, when humanity is found collectively…

— Augusto Roa Bastos

I am a very big fan of the nation, actually. In Cicero's time, there was this idea that although we were members…

— Martha C. Nussbaum

In 1980 we declared the globe free of smallpox. It was the largest campaign in United Nations history until the Iraq war.…

— Larry Brilliant

At the root of everything that we’re trying to accomplish is the belief that America has a mission. We are a nation…

— Ronald Reagan

Even if a king defeats his enemy in battle, that still doesn't settle anything. There are other, less numerous armies of philosophers…

— Cyrano de Bergerac

One of the great challenges you will face is that a part of the world, and some in it, do not have…

— King Hussein I

But the right is more precious than peace, and we shall fight for the things which we have always carried nearest our…

— Woodrow Wilson

Animal experimentation is the blackest of all the black crimes that a man is at present committing... We should be able to…

— Mahatma Gandhi

For most countries, serving the UN's objectives has never seemed worth even the smallest of risks. Member nations do not want a…

— Roméo Dallaire

I believe we can seize this future together, because we are not as divided as our politics suggests. [...] We are greater…

— Barack Obama

We are a nation that shouts at a microwave oven to hurry up.

— Joan Ryan

The nation should be ruled by the Ten Commandments.

— Theodore Roosevelt

We are a nation of faith, and we are stewards of God's world.

— Mike Huckabee

I want to talk to a nation, not to a select committee.

— Joseph Pulitzer

“Neither nations nor children should be conceived in public.”

— James D. Best

Serbia has become a pariah nation, untouchable like a leper.

— Ivica Dacic

History has no record of a nation having adopted nonviolent resistance.

— Mahatma Gandhi

The day of small nations has passed away; the day of Empires has come.

— Joseph Chamberlain