Nations Quotes

Not chance of birth or place has made us friends, Being oftentimes of different tongues and nations, But the endeavor for the selfsame ends, With the same hopes, and fears, and aspirations.

It is not the enactment, but the observance of laws, that creates the character of a nation.

I was very happy in my job at the United Nations.

The greatest miracle of the Bible is that the prophets of Israel could keep a religion as clean as a hounds tooth amid all the corruption and idolatry of the nations surrounding them.

[Martin Luther] King subpoened the nation's conscience. He was killed for it.

A nation to be great ought to be compressed in its increment by nations more civilized than itself.

To be a Christian is to believe we are commanded and authorised to say certain things to the world; to say things that will make disciples of all nations.

We are a nation that has a government-not the other way around. And that makes us special among the nations of the earth.

America, like all nations, has to renounce war.

They'll be no learning period with nuclear weapons. Make one mistake and you're going to destroy nations.

The United Nations is our conscience. If it succeeds it is our success. If it fails it is our failure.

[The public lands represent] in a sense, the breathing space of the nation.

The woman is the fiber of the nation. She is the producer of life. A nation is only as good as its women.

The strongest bond of human sympathy outside the family relation should be one uniting working people of all nations and tongues and kindreds.

Educate a woman, you educate a nation.

All nations are more tolerant of their own mistakes and weaknesses than of the mistakes and weaknesses of others.

The Armenian genocide showed what could happen when empires were beaten into nations.

If we look to the history of other nations, ancient or modern, we find no example of a growth so rapid, so gigantic, of a people so prosperous and happy.

There is a just God who presides over the destinies of nations, and who will raise up friends to fight our battles for us.

It is with nations as with individuals, those who know the least of others think the highest of themselves; for the whole family of pride and ignorance are incestuous, and mutually beget each other.

Stronger women build stronger nations.

Can one serve God and one's nation in parliament?

I would never betray a friend to serve a cause. Never reject a friend to help an institution. Great nations may fall in ruin before I would sell a friend to save them.

As New Zealanders, we've been in on the United Nations from the very beginning, played a role in the drafting of the charter - it means a lot to us that those processes are followed.

I felt vindicated that I decided to speak up for not only myself but women all across the nation who've been put down.

When we worship God as we ought that's when the nations listen.

Kings are for nations in their swaddling-clothes: France has attained her majority.

Lack of consistency is a weakness shared by all nations.

Nationalism will keep its venom until we succeed in creating an image of the nations of the whole world as so many provinces.

[Debt] It has driven thousands to drink, and the worry and anxiety it has created have literally taken the lives of many of our ablest men. It has prostrated individuals, enterprises and nations.

It's getting tougher and tougher to defeat ISIS, because they're in more and more places, more and more states, more and more nations.

I am the living attestation of the American dream. I am the extolment of this great nation.

Free nations don't develop weapons of mass destruction.

Nations around the world look to us for the leadership not merely by strength of arms but by strength of our convictions.

The dancer will not belong to a nation but to all humanity.

Terrorism against our nation will not stand.

Nations consist of people. And with their effort, a nation can accomplish all it could ever want.

When a nation is surrounded by weaponized nations, she has to equip herself.

One challenge of our adventure on earth is to rise above dead systems...wars, nations, destructions...to refuse to be a part of them, and express the highest selves we know how to be.

Great men, great nations, have not been boasters and buffoons, but perceivers of the terror of life, and have manned themselves to face it.

The friendships of nations, built on common interests, cannot survive the mutability of those interests.

Nations are in effect ceding portions of their sovereignty to the international community and beginning to create a new system of international environmental governance.

Most of all I hope the tournament [The 2017 Africa Cup of Nations] will help unite our people [in Gabon]. My wish is to celebrate a big party all together.

In the end it's the big picture which changes nations and whatever our opponents may say, Australia's changed inexorably for good, for the better.

We Poles are and will remain convinced Europeans. For us, Europe is a community of the diversity of nations. No mishmash.

Chiron had said once that nations were the most foolish of mortal inventions. "No man is worth more than another, wherever he is from.

A lot of Pacific island nations are sinking below sea level; they could easily transition slowly into becoming floating nations.

It is very much easier for a rich man to invest and grow richer than for the poor man to begin investing at all. And this is also true of nations.

Is it Obama's nation or an abomination?

You can safely appeal to the UN in the comfortable certainty that it will let you down.