Nations Quotes
The gaps in power, the gaps in wealth, the gaps in ideology which hold the nations apart also make up the abyss into which mankind can fall to annihilation.
Liberty itself has appeared intolerable to those nations who have not been accustomed to enjoy it.
So prominent was the Jewish role in the foreign commerce of Europe that those nations that received the Jews gained and the countries that excluded them lost in the volume of international trade.
Emblem: the carapace of the great crowned snail is painted with all the flags of the United Nations.
Inhabitants of underdeveloped nations and victims of natural disasters are the only people who have ever been happy to see soybeans.
Great nations are never impoverished by private, though they sometimes are by public prodigality and misconduct.
The diplomatic representatives of the United States of America to other nations are almost entirely Jews.
To correct the evils, great and small, which spring from want of sympathy and from positive enmity among strangers, as nations or as individuals, is one of the highest functions of civilization.
Discontent is the source of all trouble,but also of all progress, in individuals and nations.
If Canada, one of the richest nations in the world, can't meet Kyoto targets, why should China or India give any considerations for meeting the targets?
There should be a study of a house directly elected by the people of the world to whom the nations are accountable.
The U.N. acts as the world's conscience, and over eighty-five percent of the work that is done by the United Nations is in the social, economic, educational and cultural fields.
We come to the nations pretending to escape persecution, we the most deadly persecutors in all the wretched annals of man.
I start thinking: How many souls hip-hop has affected? How many dead folks this art resurrected? How many nations this culture connected? Who am I to judge one's perspective?
Abuse of power isn't limited to bad guys in other nations. It happens in our own country if we're not vigilant.
Christ is the desire of nations, the joy of angels, the delight of the Father. What solace then must that soul be filled with, that has the possession of Him to all eternity!
I was astonished at the effect my successful landing in France had on the nations of the world. To me, it was like a match lighting a bonfire.
Nations begin to dig their own graves when men talk more of human rights and less of human duties.
I don't care how little your country is, you got a right to run it like you want to. When the big nations quit meddling then the world will have peace.
Can one preach at home inequality of races and nations and advocate abroad good-will towards all men?
In relations with other nations, there is neither right nor wrong; there is only strength and weakness.
Liberty is the luxury of self-discipline, that those nations historically who have failed to discipline themselves have had discipline imposed by others.
Let no man write my epitaph. When my country takes her place among the nations of the earth, then, and not till then, let my epitaph be written.
All we know about the new economic world is that nations which train engineers will prevail over those which train lawyers. No nation has ever sued its way to greatness.
The world needs a new global architecture, additional layers of governance, to deal with issues that neither nations nor traditional forms of intergovernmental organizations can cope with.
We have raised an issue that is already in the Bolivian constitution, that water is a universal human right. And we asked the United Nations to recognize water as a human right.
Fights between individuals, as well as governments and nations, invariably result from misunderstandings in the broadest interpretation of this term.
The years after the millennium will see gathering conflict all over the world to the point where the United Nations will be overwhelmed.
The task of the Church after Jesus' resurrection and ascension was to proclaim the forgiveness of sins to all nations.
Savage and furious nations, perpetually at war, adore, under diverse names, some God, conformable to their ideas, that is to say, cruel, carnivorous, selfish, blood-thirsty.
Opulent, civilized, and industrious nations, are greater consumers than poor ones, because they are infinitely greater producers.
If there is a single trait in our character that has historically set us apart from other nations, it is our determination to limit the authority of those who rule over us.
There is no America. There is no democracy. There is only IBM, and ITT, and AT&T, and DuPont, Dow, Union Carbide, and Exxon. Those are the nations of the world today.
A display of reason rather than a threat of force should be the determining factor in the intercourse among nations.
It appears, accordingly, from the experience of all ages and nations, I believe, that the work done by freemen comes cheaper in the end than that performed by slaves.
Free nations with different histories, economies and a vast amount of stubborn pride will never achieve complete agreement, even when they desire the same objectives.
It strengthens the bonds between nations to have the same civil laws and the same monetary system.
The gap between the rich and the poor is wider in the United States than it is in any of the other industrialized nations.
The global work of the United Nations is not without reason compared to that of a family - striving for a common goal in concert with all members for a better future.