Desire Quote by Daniel L Dreisbach

“Virtue is too passive, too narrow. Virtue can motivate individuals, but for groups, societies, a whole civilisation, it’s a weak force. Nations are never…

— Ian McEwan

Nations have always good reasons for being what they are, and the best of all is that they cannot be otherwise.

— Marquis de Custine

Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom. As nations become corrupt and vicious, they have more need of masters." -The 5000 Year Leap

— Benjamin Franklin

Nations, like individuals in a state of nature, are equal and independent, possessing certain rights and owing certain duties to each other.

— Millard Fillmore

Nations consist of individuals. It is for every individual to bring in a different quality - the quality of awakened consciousness - into their…

— Eckhart Tolle

The destiny of nations depends on how they nourish themselves.

— Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

“Which countries contain the most peaceful, the most moral, and the happiest people? Those people are found in the countries where the law least…

— Frédéric Bastiat

Nations are not truly great solely because the individuals composing them are numerous, free, and active; but they are great when these numbers, this…

— Matthew Arnold

“Our mission is not to impose our peculiar institutions upon other nations by physical force or diplomatic treachery but rather by internal peace and…

— Benjamin Harrison

Righteousness exalteth a nation.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom. As nations become corrupt and vicious, they have more need of masters.

— Benjamin Franklin

No nation deserves to exist if it permits itself to lose the stern and virile virtues; and this without regard to whether the loss…

— Theodore Roosevelt