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We don't want to be prejudging outcomes here," she said of US opposition to scientific guidelines for rich nations to cut emissions by 25-40 percent… — Paula Dobriansky
If we would reach a degree of civilization higher and grander than any yet attained, we should welcome to our ample continent all nations, kindreds… — Frederick Douglass
Without country you have neither name, token, voice, nor rights, no admission as brothers into the fellowship of the Peoples. You are the bastards of… — Giuseppe Mazzini
It is a rude feeling, because it is natural only to people standing on the lowest level of morality, and expecting from other nations such… — Leo Tolstoy
There was something horrifying in the realization that, in this twenty-first century of what we call 'civilization,' we have carved up what we claim is… — Howard Zinn
It is nationalism which engenders nations, and not the other way round. — Ernest Gellner
Nations have lost their old omnipotence; the patriotic tiedoes not hold. Nations are getting obsolete, we go and live where we will. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Is he prepared to support, at his own expense, projects and undertakings designed to help the needy? Is he prepared to pay higher taxes so… — Pope Paul VI
There is a common belief that under modern conditions peace cannot be assured except on the basis of an equal balance of armaments...[but] true and… — Pope John XXIII
We, as Catholics are not permitted to believe anything of our own will, nor to choose what someone has believed of his. We have God's… — Isidore of Seville
In the Catholic Church, there are many other things which most justly keep me in her bosom. The consent of peoples and nations keeps me… — Saint Augustine
One cannot legislate the maniacs off the street... these maniacs can only be shut down by an armed citizenry. Indeed bad things can happen in… — Jeff Cooper
It would appear that, on the level of individual nations and of international relations, the free market is the most efficient instrument for utilizing resources… — Pope John Paul II
Again I ask whence it happened that the fall of Adam involved, without remedy, in eternal death so many nations, together with their infant children,… — John Calvin
In everything, there are two kinds of development-analytical and synthetical. In the former the Hindus excel other nations. In the latter they are nil. — Swami Vivekananda
The age of nations has passed. Now, unless we wish to perish, we must shake off our old prejudices and build the Earth. The more… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
The divide of race has been America's constant curse. Each new wave of immigrants gives new targets to old prejudices. Prejudice and contempt, cloaked in… — William J. Clinton
The reality is that the United States military alone cannot be all things to all nations. We will sharpen the application of our resources, better… — Leon Panetta
The time has come for America to hear the truth about this tragic war. In international conflicts, the truth is hard to come by because… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
To assert that it is possible to establish peace between men of different nations is simply to assert that man, whatever his ethnical background, his… — Leon Bourgeois
Observe good faith and justice towards all Nations. Cultivate peace and harmony with all. Religion and morality enjoin this conduct; and can it be that… — George Washington
Realising the healthy international relations can be created only among populations made up of individuals who themselves are healthy and enjoy a measure a independence,… — Albert Einstein
With nations as with individuals our interests soundly calculated will ever be found inseparable from our moral duties. — Thomas Jefferson
Is it not the glory of the people of America, that whilst they have paid a decent regard to the opinions of former times and… — James Madison
Nations are beginning to look to some vague organization, some nebulous course of humanity, to pay their bills and tell them what to do. This… — Calvin Coolidge

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