Activity Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Men are now proud of belonging to a conquering nation, and without a murmur they lay down their persons and their wealth, if by…

— William James

Who shall set a limit to the influence of a human being? There are men, who, by their sympathetic attractions, carry nations withthem, and…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

A nation is a totality of men united through community of fate into a community of character.

— Otto Bauer

A nation is a detour of nature to arrive at five or six great men- yes, and then to get around them.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

If you have a nation of men who have risen to that height of moral cultivation that they will not declare war or carry…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

A nation recruits men more easily than it can retrieve its honour.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

Each man is led by his own liking.

— Virgil

Men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all the other alternatives.

— Abba Eban

Men are subject to powerful passions and appetites, and, if unrestrained, are capable of ruthlessly riding roughshod over their neighbors and the community at…

— William Barr

All men - whether they go by the name of Americans or Russians or Chinese or British or Malayans or Indians or Africans -…

— Norman Cousins

It is true that men themselves made this world of nations... but this world without doubt has issued from a mind often diverse, at…

— Giambattista Vico

Fortunately, there is a sane equilibrium in the character of nations, as there is in that of men.

— Jose Marti