Nations Quotes
2130 Nations quotes by 1213 unique authors
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When I spoke at the St. Lawrence Seaway ceremonies in 1969, I borrowed some words from the monument there which I had joined Queen Elizabeth…
— Richard M. Nixon
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With all of the history of war, and the human race's history unfortunately has been a good deal more war than peace, with nuclear weapons…
— John F. Kennedy
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Market forces have no intrinsically moral direction, which is why, before he wrote The Wealth of Nations, Adam Smith wrote The Theory of Moral Sentiments.…
— Arianna Huffington
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Part of the problem with extreme patriotism is that it makes the support of one's country and its policies unconditional. Moderate patriots, on the other…
— Stephen Nathanson
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It forms a strong presumption against all supernatural and miraculous relations, that they are observed chiefly to abound among ignorant and barbarous nations; or if…
— David Hume
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Fortunately, the war has brought with it not alone a stark realization of what another war would mean to the world, but as well the…
— Cordell Hull
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By patriotism is meant, not only spontaneous, instinctive love for one's own nation, and preference for it above all other nations, but also the belief…
— Leo Tolstoy
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That four great nations, flushed with victory and stung with injury, stay the hand of vengeance and voluntarily submit their captive enemies to the judgment…
— Robert H. Jackson
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It is to the United States that all freemen look for the light and the hope of the world. Unless we dedicate ourselves completely to…
— Omar N. Bradley
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In dim eclipse, disastrous twilight sheds On half the nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs.
— John Milton
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If nations could overcome the mutual fear and distrust whose sombre shadow is now thrown over the world, and could meet with confidence and good…
— Fridtjof Nansen
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Democracy is no easy form of government. Few nations have been able to sustain it. For it requires that we take the chances of freedom;…
— Robert Kennedy
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The appearance and retirement of actors are the great events of the theatrical world; and their first performances fill the pit with conjecture and prognostication,…
— Samuel Johnson
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Since September 11, 2001, the powerful coalition of nations, led by the United States, has seen many successes against al-Qaeda and other terrorist groups. It…
— Kenny Marchant
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I was stricken by news and television pictures coming from the United States this morning. It is impossible to fully comprehend the evil that would…
— Jean Chretien
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I have always been vitally interested in physical conditioning. I have long believed that athletic competition among people and nations should replace violence and wars.
— Johnny Weissmuller
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The United Nations is the greatest fraud in history. Its purpose is to destroy the United States.
— Unknown Author
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[The task is to] covertly lower the standard of living, the whole social structure, of America so that we can be merged with all other…
— Horace Rowan Gaither
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By the end of this decade we will live under the first One World Government that has ever existed in the society of nations ...…
— Pope John Paul II
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The first goal and primary function of the U.S. public school is not to educate good people, but good citizens. It is the function which…
— Jonathan Kozol
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