Nations Quotes
2130 quotes by 1213 authors
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There are no nations! There is only humanity. And if we don't come to understand that right soon, there will be no nations, because there…
— Isaac Asimov
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I was told that the privileged and the people formed two nations.
— Benjamin Disraeli
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And whereas it is the duty of nations as well as of men, to own their dependence upon the overruling power of God ... and…
— Abraham Lincoln
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Whereas, the Senate of the United States, devoutly recognizing the Supreme Authority and just Government of Almighty God, in all the affairs of men and…
— Abraham Lincoln
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A great reputation is a great noise, the more there is of it, and the further does it swell. Land, monuments, Nations, all fall, but…
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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It is in times of difficulty that great nations like great men display the whole energy of their character and become an object of admiration…
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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Settlements may be temporary, but the action of the nations in the interest of peace and justice must be permanent. We can set up permanent…
— Woodrow Wilson
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If the perpetual oscillation of nations between anarchy and despotism is to be replaced by the steady march of self-restraining freedom, it will be because…
— Thomas Huxley
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There are men who, by their sympathetic attractions, carry nations with them, and lead the activity of the human race.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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In a world shaped and colored more and more by politicians, the nations meet politically, and hardly any other way to settle their differences.
— J. B. Priestley
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Unique among the nations, America recognized the source of our character as being godly and eternal, not being civic and temporal. And because we have…
— John Ashcroft
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Having seen the people of all other nations bowed down to the earth under the wars and prodigalities of their rulers, I have cherished their…
— Thomas Jefferson
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If I can send the flower of the German nation into the hell of war without the smallest pity for the shedding of precious German…
— Adolf Hitler
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Perhaps my dynamite plants will put an end to war sooner than your [pacifist] congresses. On the day two army corps can annihilate each other…
— Alfred Nobel
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The nations of the world will have to unite for the next war will be an interplanetary war. The nations of Earth must some day…
— Douglas MacArthur
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This revelation of the secrets of nature, long mercifully withheld from man, should arouse the most solemn reflections in the mind and conscience of every…
— Winston Churchill
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O Music! Miraculous art! A blast of thy trumpet and millions rush forward to die; a peal of thy organ and uncounted nations sink down…
— Benjamin Disraeli
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The best preparedness is the one that disarms the hostility of other nations and makes friends of them.
— Helen Keller
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Discontent is the source of all trouble,but also of all progress, in individuals and nations.
— Berthold Auerbach
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If there is a mystical chord in democracy, it probably revolves around the notion that unexpected music can resonate from politics when people are pursuing…
— William Greider
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