Nations Quotes · Page 79

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

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

— Mark Twain

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

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

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

— Nicolas Chamfort

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

— Napoleon Bonaparte

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

— John Warner

At the end of all this, Russia held in her hands a vast belt of land running from the Baltic sea in…

— John T. Flynn

Everything an Indian does is in a circle, and that is because the power of the world always works in circles, and…

— Black Elk

There's no reason the nation of Africa cannot and should not join the ranks of the world's most prosperous nations in the…

— Joe Biden

It is time for Democrats who distrust President Bush to acknowledge that he will be commander in chief for three more critical…

— Joe Lieberman

It is a rude feeling, because it is natural only to people standing on the lowest level of morality, and expecting from…

— Leo Tolstoy

If we were left solely to the wordy wit of legislators in Congress for our guidance, uncorrected by the seasonal experience and…

— Henry David Thoreau

It must be thoroughly understood that the lost land will never be won back by solemn appeals to the God, nor by…

— Adolf Hitler

Once you admit that the individual is merely a means to serve the ends of the higher entity called society or the…

— Friedrich August von Hayek

I have witnessed first-hand how the power of sport can positively impact the lives of wounded, injured and sick Servicemen and women…

— Prince Harry

For the sake of humanity it is devoutly to be wished that the manly employment of agriculture and the humanizing benefits of…

— George Washington

No man with a genius for legislation has appeared in America. They are rare in the history of the world. There are…

— Henry David Thoreau

A person who does not enter the new [Rastakhiz] party is either an individual who belongs to an illegal organization, or is…

— Mohammed Reza Pahlavi

Politics are receiving a lot of attention because we have nothing else to interest us. No nation in the history of the…

— Will Rogers

There are times when the gospel just seems to be powerfully at work in a nation, and thousands upon thousands are converted.…

— Mark Dever

The United States of America was the first place on earth where average people had the opportunity to become the greatest among…

— Rush Limbaugh

One is astonished in the study of history at the recurrence of the idea that evil must be forgotten, distorted, skimmed over.…

— W. E. B. Du Bois

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

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

— Jon Husted

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

— Nishan Panwar

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

— Kofi Annan

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

— Lyndon B. Johnson

I am of the firm belief that the nation should progress on the issue of development. And it is necessary that the…

— Narendra Modi

The spread of personal ownership is in harmony with the deepest instincts of the British people. Few changes have done more to…

— Nigel Lawson

An absolute condition of all successful living, whether for an individual or a nation, is the acceptance of death.

— Freya Stark

I believe that every people and every nation has the right to be free and independent.

— David Duke

My father is a man of impeccable character who has worked tirelessly for the United Nations for many years. His integrity is…

— Kojo Annan

I judge the people and the nations by their ideals; the higher the ideals, the better the person, the greater the nation.

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

What the Nation must realize is that the home, when both parents work, is non-existent. Once we have honestly faced that fact,…

— Agnes Meyer Driscoll

...Sound foreign policy is more than arms control, foreign aid and paying (United Nations) dues.

— John McCain

The trouble with you and me my friend, is the trouble with this nation, too many blessings, too little Appreciation.

— Don Henley

A Mr. (save, perhaps, some half dozen in the nation,) always needs a note of explanation.

— Jane Austen

What's impressed me about 'Star Trek' fans is how many generations they span and how many nations they represent. They are all…

— John Cho