Nations Quotes

The highest thinkers of the ages, the seers of the tribes and the nations, have been optimists.

Illiteracy must be banished from the land if we shall attain that high destiny as the foremost of the enlightened nations of the world which, under Providence, we ought to achieve.

GUNPOWDER, n. An agency employed by civilized nations for the settlement of disputes which might become troublesome if left unadjusted.

People and nations are forged in the fires of adversity.

It goes without saying that when survival is threatened, struggles erupt between peoples, and unfortunate wars between nations result.

Too much liberty leads both men and nations to slavery.

Human rights are something you were born with. Human rights are your God-given rights. Human rights are the rights that are recognized by all nations of this earth.

Every nation ridicules other nations, and all are right.

Aviation seems almost a gift from heaven to those Western nations who were already the leaders of their era, strengthening their leadership, their confidence, their dominance over other peoples.

Make disciples of all the nations in my Name.

A nation without heroes is nothing.

Civilization and the life of nations are governed by the same laws as prevail throughout nature and organic life.

The world in all doth but two nations bear- The good, the bad; and these mixed everywhere.

I hear the tread of pioneers Of nations yet to be, The first low wash of waves where soon Shall roll a human sea.

Education is the cheap defense of nations.

Only a more savage nation can survive.

Israel does not respect the principles or purposes of the United Nations charter nor the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

The nations which have put mankind and posterity most in their debt have been small states Israel, Athens, Florence, Elizabethan England.

Fraternity among nations, however, touches the deepest desire of human nature

Africa has been going through so much for so many years; it's time that it stands up the way other nations are standing up.

The League of Nations is the greatest humbug in history. They cannot even protect a little nation like Armenia. They do nothing but pass useless resolutions.

Christ alone can bring lasting peace - peace with God - peace among men and nations - and peace within our hearts.

As to the first, I do not know that I have done very much myself to promote fraternity between nations but I do know that there can be no more important purpose for any man's activity or interests.

The nation will continue to be a central pole of identification, even if more and more nations come to share common economic and political forms of organization.

To establish any mode to abolish war, however advantageous it might be to Nations, would be to take from such Government the most lucrative of its branches.

The American taxpayer should not be treated more shabbily than debtors from other nations and we should be encouraging other nations to help rebuild Iraq's economy.

Let peace, descending from her native heaven, bid her olives spring amidst the joyful nations; and plenty, in league with commerce, scatter blessings from her copious hand!

Nationalism is not the awakening of nations to self-consciousness; it invents nations where they do not exist.

A great reputation is a great noise, the more there is of it, and the further does it swell. Land, monuments, Nations, all fall, but the noise remains, and will reach to other generations.

The United Nations is an organizational body where people, through their Governments, come together; and it can be the only place where there can be a melting pot.

When nations are to perish in their sins, 'tis in the Church the leprosy begins.

The greatness of nations is shown by their strict regard for human rights, rigid enforcement of the law without bias, and just administration of the affairs of life.

Of the 22 industrialized nations of the world, we're dead last in per capita giving to poor people.

The Age of Nations is past. The task before us now, if we would not perish, is to build the Earth.

I was told that the privileged and the people formed two nations.

You can't know who you are, as a nation or a people, unless you know where you've been.

In dim eclipse, disastrous twilight sheds On half the nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs.

Without volunteers, we'd be a nation without a soul.

I am working for a better United Nations. Nothing is perfect. You should never rely on only one source, but rather rely on those you believe in the most.

The moral law of God is the only law of individuals and of nations, and nothing can be rightful government but such as is established and administered with a view to its support.

Japan is not a Western democracy. The Japanese have kept their traditions, culture and heritage, but they have joined the community of free nations.

No government can sell its nation on the backs of its people.

All nations have present, or past, or future reasons for thinking themselves incomparable.

Joyful, all ye nations, rise. Join the triumph of the skies. With angelic hosts proclaim "Christ is born in Bethlehem!

We owe Christ to the world--to the least person and to the greatest person, to the richest person and to the poorest person, to the best person and to the worst person. We are in debt to the nations.

America is a fortunate country. She grows by the follies of our European nations.

It is not in the United Nations that the Millennium Development Goals will be achieved. They have to be achieved in each of its Member States, by the joint efforts of their governments and people.

I think the most moving part of my trip [to Africa] so far was seeing 92-year-old Nelson Mandela, and just thinking about his life. This man has lived through a struggle that few nations have known.

We are rapidly moving toward a nation of the super-rich, by the super-rich and for the super-rich

As nations can not be rewarded or punished in the next world they must be in this.