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If present trends continue, our country may soon find itself far behind many other nations in both science and technology nations where, if you inform… — Martin Gardner
International friendly games are not worth the lives of the silk worms who perish to make the pennants. They do not even have the philanthropic… — Danny Baker
What experience and history teach is this - that nations and governments have never learned anything from history, or acted on any lessons they might… — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Liberty itself has appeared intolerable to those nations who have not been accustomed to enjoy it. — Baron de Montesquieu
Nations are born out of travail and suffering — Mahatma Gandhi
Our skin is provided as adequately as theirs with endurance against the assaults of the weather: witness so many nations who have not yet tried… — Michel de Montaigne
History is strewn with the wrecks of nations which have gained a little progressiveness at the cost of a great deal of hard manliness, and… — Walter Bagehot
It is the law of love that rules mankind. Had violence, i.e. hate, rules us we would have become extinct long ago. And yet, the… — Mahatma Gandhi
Cricket civilizes people and creates good gentlemen. I want everyone to play cricket in Zimbabwe; I want ours to be a nation of gentlemen. — Robert Mugabe
When you talk about Lacrosse, you talk about the lifeblood of the six nations. The game is ingrained into our culture and our system and… — Oren Lyons
Christ is the desire of nations, the joy of angels, the delight of the Father. What solace then must that soul be filled with, that… — John Bunyan
Standing alone among great democratic nations in imposing the death penalty is another moral decision that Americansare being forced to confront. — Jimmy Carter
The only way to achieve a practical, livable peace in a world of competing nations is to take the profit out of war. — Richard M. Nixon
To have security against atomic bombs and against the other biological weapons, we have to prevent war, for if we cannot prevent war every nation… — Albert Einstein
It is therefore wish'd that all commerce were as free between all the nations of the world as it is between the several counties of… — Benjamin Franklin
This present window of opportunity, during which a truly peaceful and interdependent world order might be built, will not be open for too long -… — David Rockefeller
What happened to Haiti is a threat that could happen anywhere in the Caribbean to these island nations, you know, because of global warming, because… — Danny Glover
Nations are in effect ceding portions of their sovereignty to the international community and beginning to create a new system of international environmental governance. — Lester R. Brown
The objective, clearly enunciated by the leaders of UNCED, is to bring about a change in the present system of independent nations. The future is… — Dixie Lee Ray
A massive campaign must be launched to restore a high-quality environment in North America and to de-develop the United States...De-development means bringing our economic system… — John Holdren
Third world nations are producing too many children too fast...it is time to ignore the controversy over family planning and cut out-of-control population growth... — Al Gore
And to those nations like ours that enjoy relative plenty, we say we can no longer afford indifference to the suffering outside our borders; nor… — Barack Obama
The Universal Declaration... as a common standard of achievement for all peoples and all nations...it not only crystallizes the political thought of our times on… — Dag Hammarskjold
A United Nations that will not stand up for human rights is a United Nations that cannot stand up for itself. — Kofi Annan
This treaty [Kyoto] is, in our opinion, based upon flawed ideas. Research data on climate change do not show that human use of hydrocarbons is… — Frederick Seitz

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