Nations Quote by Eric Hoffer

A nation without dregs and malcontents is orderly, peaceful and pleasant, but perhaps without the seed of things to come.

— Eric Hoffer

The history of any nation follows an undulatory course. In the trough of the wave we find more or less complete anarchy; but the…

— Aldous Huxley

Nations, as well as individuals, must be virtuous and righteous if they desire to be stable, prosperous, and tranquil.

— Daniel L Dreisbach

The Nation State as such is totally a construction: what we feel for it in terms of habits, traditions, countryside or nature could exist…

— Janne Teller

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

A nation without means of reform is without means of survival.

— Edmund Burke

“No nation becomes great without first eradicating laziness from the lives of its citizens. A nation could be blessed with all the natural resources…

— CLEMENT OGEDEGBE

You alone govern the nature of things. Without you nothing emerges into the light of day, without you nothing is joyous or lovely.

— Lucretius

“Nations, like individuals, have been always disposed from interest or vanity to forget their day of small things; like individuals, too, they have always…

— Hutcheson Macaulay Posnett

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

A semi-civilized state of society, equally removed from the extremes of barbarity and of refinement, seems to be that particular meridian under which all…

— Charles Caleb Colton

No nation can last which has made a mob of itself, however generous at heart.

— John Ruskin