Appreciate Quote by Frederick Douglass

A country grows in history not only because of the heroism of its troops on the field of battle, it grows also when it…

— Aristide Briand

Great nations do not succumb through lost wars, but rather through racial decay and the destruction of their internal order.

— Adolf Hitler

“a great nation must go on arming itself more and more, not for conquest—not for jealousy—not for war—but for peace!”

— Sinclair Lewis

“In a similar way, The Art of War pinpoints anger and greed as fundamental causes of defeat.”

— Sun Tzu

“One nation is weakened by a victory, another finds new forces in defeat”

— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

“A long war almost always places nations in the wretched alternative of being abandoned to ruin by defeat or to despotism by success.”

— Alexis de Tocqueville

“nations never see themselves clearly in the mirror, much less when war preys on their minds.”

— Carlos Ruiz Zafón

One can measure the greatness and the moral progress of a nation by looking at how it treats its animals.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Every moral has a story, every story has and end. Every battle has its glory, and its consequence.

— Ben Harper

“It is a tale that is told, from which we may draw the knowledge and comprehension needed for the future. The disproportion between the…

— Winston Churchill

“If we are considering the history of our own country, we write at length of the periods when our ancestors were prosperous and victorious,…

— John Bagot Glubb

The more prosperous and settled a nation, the more readily it tends to think of war as a regrettable accident; to nations less fortunate…

— Lewis H. Lapham