Nationalism Quote by Lew Wallace

There is no law by which to determine the superiority of nations; hence the vanity of the claim, and the idleness of disputes about…

— Lew Wallace

“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 truth, a State whose society is not sovereign is no sovereign State at all. Such is the case when a society has no…

— Pope John Paul II

“No nation is fit to sit in judgment upon any other nation.”

— Woodrow Wilson

“Nations not possessing great power can indulge in the luxury of criticism of others; those possessing it have the responsibility of decision. Faced with…

— Richard M. Nixon

“To accuse nations (not leaders or governments) is the hallmark of the demo-nationalist of the nineteenth or twentieth centuries; it leads to endless hatreds,…

— Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn

“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 which have got on in the world have done so by action, not by ebullition.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

“If international law is, in some ways, at the vanishing point of law, the law of war is, perhaps even more conspicuously, at the…

— Hersch Lauterpacht

“We live among nations who frequently wage unjust wars; who, disregarding the rights of others, oppress and rob, and even murder their citizens, in…

— Henry Wager Halleck

“No nation, whatever its power, can be called great when it imposes tyranny upon its citizens—worse, upon people it claims as its citizens, not”

— Ada Palmer

“A country is judged by the actions at the top. Such is the way across the world. Nations are judged by their rulers, and…

— Cheryl Matthynssens