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Nations Quotes by John Boyd Orr
- As we have seen, the wireless and the airplane have made the world so small and nations so dependent on each other that the only…
- We are now physically, politically, and economically one world and nations so interdependent that the absolute national sovereignty of nations is no longer possible.
- In recent times, European nations, with the use of gunpowder and other technical improvements in warfare, controlled practically the whole world. One, the British Empire,…
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- 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