Nations Quotes

Nations, like individuals, cannot become desperate gamblers with impunity. Punishment is sure to overtake them sooner or later.

Nothing will demoralize the nation so much as that we should learn to despise labour.

I thought that the United Nations is a creature of the five super-powers who were given veto powers. I don't like veto powers at all.

When a nation or family is about to flourish, there are sure to be happy omens; and when it is about to perish, there are sure to be unlucky omens.

All forms of violence, especially war, are totally unacceptable as means to settle disputes between and among nations, groups and persons.

Hence the solution lies in finding a means of so readjusting this exclusive element to the family of nations, that the basis of the Jewish question will be permanently removed.

Nationality is the aggregated individuality of the greatest men of the nation.

Selfishness alone is sufficient to bring apocalypse upon a nation.

International socialism recognizes the right of free independent nations, with equal rights.

All nations want peace, but they want a peace that suits them.

Nothing is so retentive as a nation's memory.

Peace is not achieved by controlling nations, but mastering our thoughts.

The Economic Problem...the problem of want and poverty and the economic struggle between classes and nations, is nothing but a frightful muddle, a transitory and unnecessary muddle.

Great nations write their autobiographies in three manuscripts - the book of their deeds, the book of their words and the book of their art.

I am delighted to have had students, friends and colleagues in so many nations and to have learned so much of what I know from them. This Nobel Award honours them all.

God has an inexhaustible enthusiasm for the supremacy of His name among the nations.

Money, not morality, is the principle commerce of civilized nations.

War has become a luxury that only small nations can afford.

Nations with too many laws, endless regulations, just cannot grow or generate enough jobs. Wake up.

If we go back in the history of different nations, violence and the use of force are part of their heritage. These are the traditions of mankind.

Both the American people and nations that censor the internet should understand that our government is committed to helping promote internet freedom.

A foreign nation is a kind of contemporaneous posterity.

I am convinced that these ojects do exist and that they are not manufactured by any nations on earth

The question before the advanced nations is not whether they can afford to help the developing nations, but whether they can afford not to do so.

The future of this nation, with the present generation, You must admit is nothing but a joke

National armies fight nations, royal armies fight their like, the first obey a mob, always demented and the second a king, generally sane.

The tide of evolution carries everything before it, thoughts no less than bodies, and persons no less than nations.

Nations have their ego, just like individuals.

When individuals and nations have once got in their heads the abstract concept of full-blown liberty, there is nothing like it in its uncontrollable strength.

There are truths which can kill a nation.

We've become a nation of con men, living by selling double glazing to each other.

United States and Coalition forces will remain in Iraq and will operate under American command as part of a multinational force authorized by the United Nations.

The United Nations Childrens Fund reports that more than 18 million children worldwide have lost both parents to the ravages of AIDS, starvation, war or natural disasters.

What I want people to know about Ethiopia is that it is a country of nations and nationalities. Oromos are the majority. But Oromos have been so good to Ethiopia but have been marginalized for years.

We are now physically, politically, and economically one world and nations so interdependent that the absolute national sovereignty of nations is no longer possible.

Conquerors never, never conquer a nation to bring freedom. They brought control.

The great free nations of the world must take control of our monetary problems if these problems are not to take control of us.

The life of the arts is far from an interruption, a distraction, in the life of a nation, is close to the center of a nation's purpose-and is a test of the quality of a nations' civilization.

Word to the Nation: Guard zealously your right to serve in the Armed Forces, for without them, there will be no other rights to guard.

Acting on our own, by ourselves, we cannot establish justice throughout the world, but joined with other free nations, we can ... assist the developing nations to throw off the yoke of poverty.

The theoretical postulate of all diplomatic discussion between nations is the assumed willingness of every nation to do justice.

A nation that sends its women to fight its wars is not worth defending.

We are a nation of shop keepers.

Every citizen in every country in the world now grows up in two nations. Their own and Hollywood.

A word, a look, an accent, may affect the destiny not only of individuals, but of nations. He is a bold man who calls anything a trifle.

I will be the president of the nation who keeps pledges.

As the cost of gasoline rises and our dependence on foreign oil continues to increase, the effect of sending over $100 billion each year to OPEC nations hurts every American.

The social problem of the twentieth century is whether civilized nations can restore themselves to sanity after their nineteenth-century aberrations of individualism and capitalism.

One out of every 100 American men is HIV positive. The rate of infection has reached epidemic proportions in 40 developing nations.

Justice and equity are twin Guardians that watch over men. From them are revealed such blessed and perspicuous words as are the cause of the well-being of the world and the protection of the nations.