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Not gold but only men can makeA people great and strong;Men who for truth and honors sakeStand fast and suffer long. Brave men who work… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Happy are all free peoples, too strong to be dispossessed. But blessed are those among nations who dare to be strong for the rest! — Elizabeth Barrett Browning
The Family of Man is more than three billion strong. It lives in more than one hundred nations. Most of its members are not white.… — John F. Kennedy
The time is not far off when many nations in many parts of the world of many political shades and commitments will possess nuclear or… — John F. Kennedy
Is this Nation stating it cannot afford to spend an additional $600 million to help the developing nations of the world become strong and free… — John F. Kennedy
The central drama of our age is how the Western nations and the Asian peoples are to find a tolerable basis of co-existence. — Walter Lippmann
Censor, n. An officer of certain governments, employed to supress the works of genius. Among the Romans the censor was an inspector of public morals,… — Ambrose Bierce
Nations do not think, they only feel. They get their feelings at second hand through their temperaments, not their brains. A nation can be brought… — Mark Twain
Of all the nations in the world, the United States was built in nobody's image. It was the land of the unexpected, of unbounded hope,… — Daniel J. Boorstin
The history of exploration across nations and across time is not one where nations said, 'Let's explore because it's fun.' It was, 'Let's explore so… — Neil deGrasse Tyson
Everybody should take each other as they are, white, black, Indians, Creole. Then there would be no prejudice, nations would get along. — Langston Hughes
It is but seldom that any one overt act produces hostilities between two nations; there exists, more commonly, a previous jealousy and ill will, a… — Washington Irving
Democratic nations care but little for what has been, but they are haunted by visions of what will be. — Alexis de Tocqueville
Amongst democratic nations, each new generation is a new people. — Alexis de Tocqueville
One of the most interesting and harmful delusions to which men and nations can be subjected is that of imagining themselves special instruments of the… — Bertrand Russell
On September 17, 1914, Erzberger, the well-known German statesman, an eminent member of the Catholic Party, wrote to the Minister of War, General von Falkenhayn,… — Georges Clemenceau
The friendships of nations, built on common interests, cannot survive the mutability of those interests. — Agnes Repplier
It is not often that nations learn from the past,even rarer that they draw the correct conclusions from it. — Henry A. Kissinger
Growing nations should remember that, in nature, no tree, though placed in the best conditions of light, soil, and plot, can continue to grow and… — Paul Valery
It is possible, I suppose, that we are returning to a Dark Age. What is frightening is that violence is not only represented by nations,… — May Sarton
It is my belief that whereas the twentieth century has been a century of war and untold suffering, the twenty-first century should be one of… — Dalai Lama
Races and nations are thus ever ready to believe the worst of one another. — Richard Le Gallienne
In our wildest aberrations we dream of an equilibrium we have left behind and which we naively expect to find at the end of our… — Albert Camus
Other nations of different habits are not enemies: they are godsends. Men require of their neighbours something sufficiently akin to be understood, something sufficiently different… — Alfred North Whitehead
The free system of government we have established is so congenial with reason, with common sense, and with a universal feeling, that it must produce… — James Madison

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