Nations Quotes

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I have been in America only once since Mr. Clinton became your president - as a speaker at the United Nations. — Mangosuthu Buthelezi
We all understand that the debasement of a nations coinage is very pernicious and must prove disastrous to its commerce. How much more dangerous is… — Virchand Gandhi
To my mind, the most important aspect of the Nobel Awards is that they bring home to the masses of the peoples of all nations,… — Irving Langmuir
But in the first Gulf war the United Kingdom was not under any threat from Iraq, and is still less so in the second one.… — Kate Adie
We are now physically, politically, and economically one world and nations so interdependent that the absolute national sovereignty of nations is no longer possible. — John Boyd Orr
The United Nations ... [is] a place for prostitution under the feet of Americans. — Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf
Great nations need organizing principles, and 'Don't do stupid stuff' is not an organizing principle. — Hillary Clinton
The main thing that endears the United Nations to member governments, and so enables it to survive, is its proven capacity to fail. You can… — Conor Cruise O'Brien
The United Nations cannot do anything, and never could; it is not an animate entity or agent. It is a place, a stage, a forum… — Conor Cruise O'Brien
Bombing the Murrah Federal Building was morally and strategically equivalent to the U.S. hitting a government building in Serbia, Iraq, or other nations. — Timothy McVeigh
I saw in the whole Christian world a license of fighting at which even barbarous nations might blush. Wars were begun on trifling pretexts or… — Hugo Grotius
Nationalism is not the awakening of nations to self-consciousness; it invents nations where they do not exist... — Ernest Gellner
If nations could only depend upon fair and impartial judgments in a world court of law, they would abandon the senseless, savage practice of war. — Belva Ann Lockwood
There is no law by which to determine the superiority of nations; hence the vanity of the claim, and the idleness of disputes about it.… — Lew Wallace
Nations have the wrong granularity. They’re too small to be global and too big to be local, and all they can think about is competing. — Nicholas Negroponte
The language itself, whether you speak it or not, whether you love it or hate it, is like some bewitchment or seduction from the past,… — Jan Morris
What is nobler than to tread under foot the gods of the nations, to exorcise evil spirits, to perform cures, to seek divine revelations, and… — Tertullian
Henceforth the leaves of the tree of knowledge were for women, and for the healing of the nations. — Lucy Stone
Free nations with different histories, economies and a vast amount of stubborn pride will never achieve complete agreement, even when they desire the same objectives. — Arthur Hays Sulzberger
In 30 years of travel and training leaders -164 nations - I've never met anyone who didn't need massive doses of love. — Rick Warren
The United Nations cannot stand by and witness the destruction of the people of West Papua. — Unknown Author
Examine the life of the best and most productive men and nations, and ask yourselves whether a tree which is to grow proudly skywards can… — Friedrich Nietzsche
We have come to this earth upon a mission ... that we may have power to go forth and warn the nations of the earth.… — Unknown Author
When you love the Lord, you long to glorify Him and see the nations fall at His feet in worship. When you love your neighbor… — David Sills
The key to the missionary's work is the authority of Jesus Christ, not the needs of the lost. We are inclined to look on our… — Oswald Chambers

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