Nations Quotes
2130 Nations quotes by 1213 unique authors
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This is the kernel of the problem, as we see it: the Jews comprise a distinctive element among the nations under which they dwell, and…
— Leon Pinsker
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Hence the solution lies in finding a means of so readjusting this exclusive element to the family of nations, that the basis of the Jewish…
— Leon Pinsker
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No previous civilization has been able to achieve it, nor can we see even in the remote distance, that day of the Messiah, when national…
— Leon Pinsker
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[The] United States is proud to stand with you as your strongest ally and greatest friend. I see this visit as an opportunity to reaffirm…
— Barack Obama
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We have said that Israel has had a very bad history with the United Nations, and whoever cares for himself in Israel distances himself from…
— Yitzhak Shamir
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The nations of antiquity rolled away in the current of ages, Israel alone remained one indestructible edifice of gray antiquity... preserved by an internal and…
— Isaac Mayer Wise
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The world cannot live at peace without the United Nations. For this reason: it creates a reasonable guarantee that all this change in the world,…
— Dag Hammarskjold
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The drama of AIDS threatens not just some nations or societies, but the whole of humanity. It knows no frontiers of geography, race, age or…
— Pope John Paul II
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We spent a month in Japan last year, a week in Istanbul for the United Nations, and nearly three months in my native Nova Scotia,…
— Robert MacNeil
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The history of nations shows that words are not always immediately followed by action.
— Gustav Stresemann
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The United Nations has no business in our elections.
— David Vitter
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But just as haste and restlessness are typical of our present-day life, so change also takes place more rapidly than before. This applies to change…
— Gustav Stresemann
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Yugoslavia is a multinational community and it can survive only under the conditions of full equality for all nations that live in it.
— Slobodan Milosević
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Humanistic values of equality and equal rights for all nations and individuals as crystallized in the principles of the United Nations Charter are mankind's great…
— Tran ?uc Luong
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The need for a permanent status resolution approved by Congress is made even more clear to me because of my experience as a former Under-Secretary-General…
— Dick Thornburgh
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I think the American people, understandably, have sort of lost faith in the United Nations.
— Cliff Stearns
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We will be safer from terrorist attack only when we have earned the respect of all other nations instead of their fear, respect for our…
— Theodore C. Sorensen
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Ten years ago in Nairobi we said that the participation of women in the decision-making and appraisal processes of the United Nations was essential if…
— Jenny Shipley
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And occasionally some of the nations that will be partners in this would probably not be, in terms of passing a pure human rights check,…
— Hugh Shelton
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Japan is not a Western democracy. The Japanese have kept their traditions, culture and heritage, but they have joined the community of free nations.
— Natan Sharansky
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I deem it established, then, that the Constitution does not recognize property in man, but leaves that question, as between the states, to the law…
— William H. Seward
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But you answer, that the Constitution recognizes property in slaves. It would be sufficient, then, to reply, that this constitutional recognition must be void, because…
— William H. Seward
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The law of nations is naturally founded on this principle, that different nations ought in time of peace to do one another all the good…
— Baron de Montesquieu
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Each particular society begins to feel its strength, whence arises a state of war between different nations.
— Baron de Montesquieu
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At a time when we are facing threats from nations such as North Korea and Iran, and attempting to convince others such as India and…
— Ellen Tauscher
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