Nations Quotes
2130 Nations quotes by 1213 unique authors
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The church I lead could have the least gifted people, the least talented people, the fewest leaders, and the least money, and this church under…
— David Platt
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For a few moments, attune your mind to the idea of harmony and peaceful coexistence flowing among all peoples and nations. The source of this…
— Stephen Russell
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Power is not happiness. Security and peace are more to be desired than a man at which nations tremble.
— William Godwin
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A word, a look, an accent, may affect the destiny not only of individuals, but of nations. He is a bold man who calls anything…
— Andrew Carnegie
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The United States, and other advanced nations, will someday be able to produce instruments of death so terrible the world will be in abject terror…
— Thomas A. Edison
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Without chemical slaughterhouses, without a systematic mass murder, the tragedy of the Jews is just one out of the numerous tragedies that befell the nations…
— Unknown Author
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A man is judged by the company he keeps, and a company is judged by the men it keeps, and the people of Democratic nations…
— William J. H. Boetcker
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The United Nations is our one great hope for a peaceful and free world.
— Ralph Bunche
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No modern nation has ever constructed a foreign policy that was acceptable to its intellectuals
— Irving Kristol
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May the United Nations ever be vigilant and potent to defeat the swallowing up of any nation, at any time, by any means-by armies with…
— Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr.
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Texas does not, like any other region, simply have indigenous dishes. It proclaims them. It congratulates you, on your arrival, at having escaped from the…
— Alistair Cooke
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A nation can assume that the addition of the words "under God" to its pledge of allegiance gives evidence that its citizens actually believe in…
— Huston Smith
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So that this nation may long endure, I urge you to follow in the hallowed footsteps of the great disobedience of history that freed exiles,…
— Charlton Heston
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To poison a nation, poison its stories. A demoralised nation tells demoralised stories to itself. Beware of the storytellers who are not fully conscious of…
— Ben Okri
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A nation's life is about as long as its reverential memory
— Whittaker Chambers
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The repose of nations cannot be secure without arms, armies cannot be maintained without pay, nor can the pay be produced without taxes
— Tacitus
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There is no calamity which a great nation can invite which equals that which follows a supine submission to wrong and injustice
— Grover Cleveland
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It is sometimes necessary to lie damnably in the interests of the nation
— Hilaire Belloc
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Today, no walls can separate humanitarian or human rights crises in one part of the world from national security crises in another. What begins with…
— Kofi Annan
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I can recall no parallel in history where a great nation recently at war has so distinguished its former enemy commander.
— Douglas MacArthur
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It is well to remember that the office of Chief Executive is in part a symbol of the nation and that leaders in a nation…
— Herbert Hoover
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States that rise quickly, just as all the other things of nature that are born and grow rapidly, cannot have roots and ramifications; the first…
— Niccolo Machiavelli
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The laws of a nation form the most instructive portion of its history
— Edward Gibbon
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I made efforts to swallow tears and to protect the species of the Japanese nation.
— Hirohito
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She was mother not only to me but to the whole nation. She served the Indian people to the last drop of her blood.
— Rajiv Gandhi
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