Nations Quotes

Prosperous farmers make for a prosperous nation, and when farmers are in trouble, the nation is in trouble.

The best preparedness is the one that disarms the hostility of other nations and makes friends of them.

Unless the U.N. is completely reorganized without the Communist nations in it, we should get out of it.

[The task is to] covertly lower the standard of living, the whole social structure, of America so that we can be merged with all other nations.

Nations that embrace the free market to the greatest extent prosper the most.

The history of knowledge is a great fugue in which the voices of the nations one after the other emerge.

Occasional war is one of the rigorous instruments in the hands of Providence to give tone to the character of nations.

I have ever hated all nations, professions, and communities, and all my love is toward individuals.

All nations that have nuclear weapons think that they are responsible and it is the other guys who are irresponsible.

There is no nation in the whole world desiring war.

People as well as nations perish without scriptures. The scriptures are spiritual food for our spirit, which is just as important as physical food for our body.

That nation is great which rests its head upon death as its pillow.

Nations are born out of travail and suffering

When two nations are fighting, the duty of a votary of ahimsa is to stop the war.

I have recognized that the nation has the right, if it so wills, to vindicate her freedom even by actual violence.

Hate is a grand, a strong quality! It makes nations, it builds up creeds! If men loved one another what should they need of a Church?

A defeated nation is always explaining itself. That's why the best storytellers are always from vanquished nations.

We are a nation of faith, and we are stewards of God's world.

I love my people. They have the right to live like any other nation on Earth.

Liberty and equality are magical words.

The small countries of the world are as important as the big nations.

God has made Canada one of those nations which cannot be conquered and cannot be destroyed, except by itself.

A nation that can't remember its dead will soon cease to be worth dying for.

It would appear that, on the level of individual nations and of international relations, the free market is the most efficient instrument for utilizing resources and effectively responding to needs.

If the United States marches into Iraq without the backing of the United Nations, that will be done entirely without the backing of the American people.

Nations do not distrust each other because they are armed. They are armed because they distrust each other.

Like men, nations are purified and strengthened by trials.

I have ever deemed it fundamental for the United States never to take active part in the quarrels of Europe.... They are nations of eternal war.

History is the memory of a nation

What's bad for the country is always good for The Nation.

Roman, remember that you shall rule the nations by your authority, for this is to be your skill, to make peace the custom, to spare the conquered, and to wage war until the haughty are brought low.

Prime Minister [Shinzō Abe] and I have spoken a lot, and we said all the right things, in my opinion, about creating an atmosphere of trust and friendship between our nations and peoples.

At 8:23 there seemed every chance of a lasting alliance starting between Florin and Guilder. At 8:24 the two nations were very close to war.

It has to be admitted that starving nations never seem to be quite so starving that they cannot afford to have far more expensive armaments than anybody else.

The greater ignorance towards a country is not ignoring what its politicians have to say, it is ignoring what the inmates in its prisons have to say.

The future belongs to Science. More and more she will control the destinies of the nations. Already she has them in her crucible and on her balances.

I cannot say that the attitude of the United Nations always is for the Israeli attitude. Israel, I think, has been under severe attacks by members of the United Nations many times.

Torture, including practices like waterboarding, violates the legal and moral standards of all civilized nations.

The Holy Roman Empire was neither holy nor Roman nor an empire, the United Nations is a disunited collection of regimes, many of which do not represent the nations they govern.

In both rich and poor nations consumption is polarized while expectation is equalized.

If any agreement between two nations is to last, it must serve the best interests of both nations.

Ultimately a great nation is a compassionate nation.

France will always be a great nation.

The study of history empowers nations and individuals with an ability to avoid errors of the past and lay foundations for victories in the future.

Nations like individuals are subjected to punishments and chastisements in this world.

Sporting chivalrous contest helps knit the bonds of peace between nations. Therefore may the Olympic flame never expire.

In the life of nations, what in the last resort decides questions is a kind of Judgment Court of God... Always before god and the world the stronger has the right to carry through what he wills.

I have never liked France or the French, and I have never stopped saying so. (15th February 1945)

It is not the State that orders us; but it is we who order the State!

The earliest voice listened to by the nations in their infancy was the voice of the storyteller.