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Nations Quotes by Edward Abbey
- We judge individual man and women as we do nations and races -- by the character of their achievement and by their achievement of character.
- Science transcends mere politics. As recent history demonstrates, scientists are as willing to work for a Tojo, a Hitler, or a Stalin as for the…
- America My Country: last nation on earth to abolish human slavery; first of all nations to drop the nuclear bomb on our fellow human beings.
- I would never betray a friend to serve a cause. Never reject a friend to help an institution. Great nations may fall in ruin before…
More Nations Quotes
- War has become a luxury that only small nations can afford. — Hannah Arendt
- The United Nations should become a proactive agent in the dissemination of democratic principles. — Michelle Bachelet
- For my name and memory I leave to men's charitable speeches, and to foreign nations and the next ages. — Francis Bacon
- The core issue here is that the Israeli government refuses to commit to terms of reference for the negotiations that are based… — Mahmoud Abbas
- We have nothing in our history or position to invite aggression; we have everything to beckon us to the cultivation of relations… — Franklin P. Adams
- The Hebrews have done more to civilize men than any other nation. If I were an atheist, and believed blind eternal fate,… — John Adams
- Money speaks sense in a language all nations understand. — Aphra Behn
- For a nation which has an almost evil reputation for bustle, bustle, bustle, and rush, rush, rush, we spend an enormous amount… — Robert Benchley
- God of peace, bring your peace to our violent world: peace in the hearts of all men and women and peace among… — Pope Benedict XVI
- The United Nations charter gives every nation the right to self defence, therefore when the American embassies were bombed it was a… — Benazir Bhutto
- The slightest acquaintance with history shows that powerful republics are the most warlike and unscrupulous of nations. — Ambrose Bierce
- Poetry fettered, fetters the human race. Nations are destroyed or flourish in proportion as their poetry, painting, and music are destroyed or… — William Blake