Nations Quotes

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It is in times of difficulty that great nations like great men display the whole energy of their character and become an object of admiration… — Napoleon Bonaparte
Settlements may be temporary, but the action of the nations in the interest of peace and justice must be permanent. We can set up permanent… — Woodrow Wilson
If the perpetual oscillation of nations between anarchy and despotism is to be replaced by the steady march of self-restraining freedom, it will be because… — Thomas Huxley
There are men who, by their sympathetic attractions, carry nations with them, and lead the activity of the human race. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
In a world shaped and colored more and more by politicians, the nations meet politically, and hardly any other way to settle their differences. — J. B. Priestley
Unique among the nations, America recognized the source of our character as being godly and eternal, not being civic and temporal. And because we have… — John Ashcroft
Having seen the people of all other nations bowed down to the earth under the wars and prodigalities of their rulers, I have cherished their… — Thomas Jefferson
If I can send the flower of the German nation into the hell of war without the smallest pity for the shedding of precious German… — Adolf Hitler
Perhaps my dynamite plants will put an end to war sooner than your [pacifist] congresses. On the day two army corps can annihilate each other… — Alfred Nobel
The nations of the world will have to unite for the next war will be an interplanetary war. The nations of Earth must some day… — Douglas MacArthur
This revelation of the secrets of nature, long mercifully withheld from man, should arouse the most solemn reflections in the mind and conscience of every… — Winston Churchill
O Music! Miraculous art! A blast of thy trumpet and millions rush forward to die; a peal of thy organ and uncounted nations sink down… — Benjamin Disraeli
The best preparedness is the one that disarms the hostility of other nations and makes friends of them. — Helen Keller
Discontent is the source of all trouble,but also of all progress, in individuals and nations. — Berthold Auerbach
If there is a mystical chord in democracy, it probably revolves around the notion that unexpected music can resonate from politics when people are pursuing… — William Greider
The future belongs to Science. More and more she will control the destinies of the nations. Already she has them in her crucible and on… — William Osler
Because all the societies, all the nations, all the cultures, have taken it for granted that the individuals exist for them, not vice-versa. To me,… — Rajneesh
Inhabitants of underdeveloped nations and victims of natural disasters are the only people who have ever been happy to see soybeans. — Fran Lebowitz
Today, the United States stands as a beacon of liberty and democratic strength before the community of nations. We are resolved to stand firm against… — Ronald Reagan
In the life of the human spirit, words are action, much more so than many of us realize who live in countries where freedom of… — Jimmy Carter
Liberty is the luxury of self-discipline, that those nations historically who have failed to discipline themselves have had discipline imposed by others. — Alistair Cooke
When individuals and nations have once got in their heads the abstract concept of full-blown liberty, there is nothing like it in its uncontrollable strength. — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
The gift of God to this enlightened age is the knowledge of the oneness of mankind and of the fundamental oneness of religion. War shall… — Abdu'l-BahÃ¡
To the masses, the catchwords of Socialism sound so enticing... so they will continue to work for Socialism, helping thereby to bring about the inevitable… — Ludwig von Mises
History fails to record a single precedent in which nations subject to moral decay have not passed into political and economic decline. There has been… — Douglas MacArthur

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