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Nations Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson
- The most advanced nations are always those who navigate the most.
- There are men who, by their sympathetic attractions, carry nations with them, and lead the activity of the human race.
- Nations have lost their old omnipotence; the patriotic tiedoes not hold. Nations are getting obsolete, we go and live where we will.
- Great men, great nations, have not been boasters and buffoons, but perceivers of the terror of life, and have manned themselves to face it.
- We estimate the wisdom of nations by seeing what they did with their surplus capital.
- Shall we then judge a country by the majority, or by the minority? By the minority, surely. 'Tis pedantry to estimate nations by the census,…
- The crime which bankrupts men and nations is that of turning aside from one's main purpose to serve a job here and there.
- 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…
- But there is no end to the praise of books, to the value of the library. Who shall estimate their influence on our population where…
More Nations Quotes
- War has become a luxury that only small nations can afford. — Hannah Arendt
- The United Nations should become a proactive agent in the dissemination of democratic principles. — Michelle Bachelet
- For my name and memory I leave to men's charitable speeches, and to foreign nations and the next ages. — Francis Bacon
- The core issue here is that the Israeli government refuses to commit to terms of reference for the negotiations that are based… — Mahmoud Abbas
- We have nothing in our history or position to invite aggression; we have everything to beckon us to the cultivation of relations… — Franklin P. Adams
- The Hebrews have done more to civilize men than any other nation. If I were an atheist, and believed blind eternal fate,… — John Adams
- Money speaks sense in a language all nations understand. — Aphra Behn
- For a nation which has an almost evil reputation for bustle, bustle, bustle, and rush, rush, rush, we spend an enormous amount… — Robert Benchley
- God of peace, bring your peace to our violent world: peace in the hearts of all men and women and peace among… — Pope Benedict XVI
- The United Nations charter gives every nation the right to self defence, therefore when the American embassies were bombed it was a… — Benazir Bhutto
- The slightest acquaintance with history shows that powerful republics are the most warlike and unscrupulous of nations. — Ambrose Bierce
- Poetry fettered, fetters the human race. Nations are destroyed or flourish in proportion as their poetry, painting, and music are destroyed or… — William Blake