The Athenian democracy suffered much from that narrowness of patriotism which is the ruin of all nations. — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
No one truly knows a nation until one has been inside its jails. A nation should not be judged by how it… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
Understanding is the basis of care. What you would take care of you must first understand, whether it be a petunia or… — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
We are not a nation that says 'don't ask, don't tell.' We are a nation that says 'out of many, we are… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
We live in a dangerous world where rogue nations are developing longer range missiles. We have to make a strong effort at… — Jim Saxton Copy Share Image
My attitude is that when we put a youngster in harm's way, somebody who wears our nation's uniform in harm's way, he… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
With nations as with individuals our interests soundly calculated will ever be found inseparable from our moral duties. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“Let's us hold hands together in harmony for a peaceful co -existence for alll humankind in every nation.” — Lailah Gifty Akita Copy Share Image
There are many faculties in man, each of which takes its turn of activity, and that faculty which is paramount in any… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
[About Jews] Among other nations, the vital problems are: a good crop, extension of the boundaries, strong armies, colonies; among us, if… — I. L. Peretz Copy Share Image
Historically the most striking result of Kant's labors was the rapid separation of the thinkers of his own nation and, though less… — Lawrence Joseph Henderson Copy Share Image
The ancients were destitute of many of the conveniences of life which have been invented or improved by the progress of industry;… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
The world needs a new global architecture, additional layers of governance, to deal with issues that neither nations nor traditional forms of… — Amitai Etzioni Copy Share Image
Those nations of artists, finding their own individualism, and kind of standing against the world: to me that's the ultimate nightmare. I… — Robert Wyatt Copy Share Image
No one is going to question my commitment to the defence of our nation. I don't know what it is these Republicans,… — John F. Kerry Copy Share Image
When it comes to immigration reform, now is the time ... I've never seen a better political environment ... I'm not doing… — Lindsey Graham Copy Share Image
Local assemblies of the people constitute the strength of free nations. Municipal institutions are to liberty what primary schools are to science:… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
I genuinely did not expect more than half our nation to choose to walk away from our long-term allies into the arms… — Brian Reade Copy Share Image
The worst thing we can do is to assume that the Electoral College [voting] resulting in the election of Donald Trump represents… — Willie Parker Copy Share Image
The autobiographer looks at life through the lens of his or her own life and really uses herself or himself as the… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
The world values the seer above all men, and has always done so. Nay, it values all men in proportion as they… — John Jay Chapman Copy Share Image
Excessive partiality for one foreign nation and excessive dislike of another cause those whom they actuate to see danger only on one… — George Washington Copy Share Image
We have to have an aggressive, long-term plan to tackle our nation’s debt, but attempting to balance the budget on the backs… — Tim Walz Copy Share Image
A nation orients itself by its own geniuses, and derives from them its ideas of its own ideals, but the guiding star… — Otto Weininger Copy Share Image
American business can out-think, out-work, out-perform any nation in the world. But we can't beat the competition if we don't get in… — George H. W. Bush Copy Share Image
Every citizen in every country in the world now grows up in two nations. Their own and Hollywood. — Nick Mancuso Copy Share Image
So far as it depends on the course of this government, our relations of good will and friendship will be sedulously cultivated… — John Tyler Copy Share Image
Japan is not a Western democracy. The Japanese have kept their traditions, culture and heritage, but they have joined the community of… — Natan Sharansky Copy Share Image
Well technologically and so forth, it's a breakthrough, and yet [Birth of a Nation,] it's very white supremacist to the core in… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
It is ironic that a nation that has never experienced a coup d'etat should be so obsessed with the idea of conspiracy. — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
“The biggest goal of every nation must be to create individuals with independent and versatile minds!” — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
United States:. A nation given either to unjustified over-enthusiasms or infantile furies. — John Ralston Saul Copy Share Image
I know that the Lord is always on the side of the right. But it is my constant anxiety and prayer that… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
A long war almost always places nations in this sad alternative: that their defeat delivers them to destruction and their triumph to… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
There is a dharma for yourself, for someone else, for a family, for a nation, for a universe. There are collective and… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
This is not about what party you're part of. This is about right and wrong, ... the conscience of this nation. — Al Sharpton Copy Share Image
“It is too true, however disgraceful it may be to human nature, that nations in general will make war whenever they have… — John Jay Copy Share Image
I feel that it is our moral obligation to stand and to be courageous with these families, and particularly Cindy, that have… — Al Sharpton Copy Share Image
We may fairly judge of the commercial prosperity of a country from the amount of sulphuric acid it consumes. — Justus von Liebig Copy Share Image
In all nations truth is the most sublime, the most simple, the most difficult, and yet the most natural thing. — Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne Copy Share Image