Coalitions Quote by Adolf Hitler

A long war almost always places nations in this sad alternative: that their defeat delivers them to destruction and their triumph to despotism.

— Alexis de Tocqueville

Every war is a national misfortune.

— Anonymous

Very few established institutions, governments and constitutions ...are ever destroyed by their enemies until they have been corrupted and weakened by their friends.

— Walter Lippmann

The misfortune in the state is, that nobody can enjoy life in peace, but that everybody must govern; and in art, that nobody will…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The very strength of a nation eventually proves to be its weakness.

— Paul Harris

History shows that nations are more fragile than their citizens think. No nation in history has survived the ravages of time.

— Richard Lamm

I consider even a victorious war as an evil, from which statesmanship must endeavor to spare nations

— Otto Von Bismarck

There is no calamity which a great nation can invite which equals that which follows a supine submission to wrong and injustice

— Grover Cleveland

Throughout history many nations have suffered a physical defeat, but that has never marked the end of a nation. But when a nation has…

— Ibn Khaldun

It goes without saying that when survival is threatened, struggles erupt between peoples, and unfortunate wars between nations result.

— Hideki Tojo

When a nation has allowed itself to fall under a tyrannical regime, it cannot be absolved from the faults due to the guilt of…

— Winston Churchill

We will sometimes have defeats in life but you can have defeats without being defeated, you could fail without being a failure. When you…

— Maya Angelou