Nations Quotes

For Castro, freedom starts with education. And if literacy alone were the yardstick, Cuba would rank as one of the freest nations on Earth.

Each particular society begins to feel its strength, whence arises a state of war between different nations.

O Music! Miraculous art! A blast of thy trumpet and millions rush forward to die; a peal of thy organ and uncounted nations sink down to pray.

Blot out from the page of history the names of all the great actors of his time in the drama of nations, and preserve the name of Washington, and the century would be renowned.

No achievement can be higher than that of working in harmony with other nations so that the lash of war may be lifted from our backs and a peace of lasting friendship descend upon us.

My idea of perfect happiness is a healthy family, peace between nations, and all the critics die.

AIDS destroys families, decimates communities and, particularly in the poorest areas of the world, threatens to destabilize the social, cultural, and economic fabric of entire nations.

As a nation, we have never embraced aging.

The need for a permanent status resolution approved by Congress is made even more clear to me because of my experience as a former Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations.

We are a debtor nation, and we owe now $19 trillion and it's going to go up very fast by the way from this point.

The difference of language, dress, and manners . . . severs and alienates the nations of the globe.

From the paths of blood (and such is the history of nations) I cannot refuse to turn aside to gather some flowers of science or virtue.

We are a great nation because we are a good people.

At the United Nations, a lynch mob for Israel is always just a moment away.

Let us have no further blind devotion to the communist dominated United Nations!

I care not who makes th' laws iv a nation, if I can get out an injunction.

I am ... willing to make it clear that American foreign policy must uphold the sanctity of international treaties. That is the cornerstone on which all relations between nations must rest.

Thus we have at least a national song that unites all Germans, and is the symbol of our sixty-million nation.

I was convinced that Ceylon is the cradle of the human race because everybody there looks an original. All other nations are obviously mass produced.

The happiest women, like the happiest nations, have no history.

My vision of a 'new world order' foresees a United Nations with a revitalized peacekeeping function.

After September 11th, nations from across the globe offered their generous assistance to the people of New York. And whenever our friends around the world need our assistance, New York is there.

There is not much danger of the smaller nations if the big nations will behave.

Anacalypsis: An Attempt to Draw Aside the Veil of the Saitic or an Inquiry into the Origin of Languages, Nations and Religions.

The Athenian democracy suffered much from that narrowness of patriotism which is the ruin of all nations.

If you educate a girl, you educate a nation.

As it is with an individual, so it is with a nation. One must produce to have, or one will become a have-not.

Smart people make good choices. They dig science and say 'no' to the invasion of sovereign nations for the pleasure of corporations.

In the industrial nations, there's a sense that Africa would go under without development aid. But believe me, Africa existed before you Europeans came along. And we didn't do all that poorly either.

Prisons are woefully ill-equipped for their current role as the nations primary mental health facilities.

It is not differences of opinion; it is geographical lines, rivers, and mountains which divide State from State, and make different nations of mankind.

The Carter Center has a policy of doing what others do not want to do. We do not compete with the World Health Organization, the United Nations or the US government.

We are not saved by nations or by churches or by families, but as individuals, through a personal interest in a personal Saviour.

The time is not far off when many nations in many parts of the world of many political shades and commitments will possess nuclear or even thermonuclear weapons.

Never have the nations of the world had so much to lose, or so much to gain. Together we shall save our planet, or together we shall perish in its flames.

...also took for granted that secret services were the only real measure of a nations political health, the only real expression of its subconscious.

This monster of a land, this mightiest of nations, this spawn of the future, turns out to be the macrocosm of microcosm me.

Mountains culminate in peaks, and nations in men.

Diplomacy is a game of chess in which the nations are checkmated.

The burgeoisie, by the rapid improvement of all instruments of production, by the immensely facilitated means of communication, draws all nations into civilization.

If the United Nations is not as united as it should be, that is because it is a reflection of the world we live in.

People think boundaries and borders build nations. Nonsense-words do. Beliefs, declarations, constitutions-words. Stories. Myths. Lies. Promises. History

Nonviolent nationalism is a necessary condition of corporate or civilized life.

Between the two, the nationalist and the imperialist, there is no meeting ground.

I want co-operation between nations for the salvaging of civilization, but co-operation presupposes free nations worthy of co-operation.

I think everyone must settle for what is in the parameter of their own rights. No one must have an evil intention toward the territorial benefit or integrity of other nations.

Every rabbit-nation will find its tyrant! Oppressors are the destiny of coward and submissive nations!

A Britain which denounced the insanity of the nuclear strategy would be in a position to direct its influence at the United Nations and in the world at large, in a manner at present denied us

There is nothing so extreme that is not allowed by the custom of some nation or other.

The United Nations ... [is] a place for prostitution under the feet of Americans.