Nations Quotes
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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.
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There will always be nations. The United States will last a long, long time, I believe. France and Germany and Japan, China, other nations, they're going to exist. But they're losing their significance and ability to deal with certain matters.
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There is a Western world. There is America. There is Great Britain and Germany and France and Russia and China and other nations. I doubt that there is one country amongst those I mentioned which has a desire to see Iran, with its fundamentalist, Islamic, extremist government, possessing nuclear weapons.
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The community of nations may see more and more of the very kind of threat Iraq poses now: a rogue state with weapons of mass destruction, ready to use them or provide them to terrorists. If we fail to respond today, Saddam and all those who would follow in his footsteps will be emboldened tomorrow.
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If we try to 'protect ourselves', our nation-states begin to look like prisons.
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All states and nations, however great, bloom for a season and are replaced.
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The bourgeoisie incites the workers of one nation against those of another in the endeavour to keep them disunited.
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The day of small nations has passed away; the day of Empires has come.
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If America ever passes out as a great nation, we ought to put on our tombstone: America died from a delusion she had Moral Leadership.
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Before peace between the nations, we have to find peace inside that small nation which is our own being.
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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.
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United Nations peacekeepers are going all over the world spreading AIDS even while they're trying to bring peace. What a supreme irony.
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A nation . . . is just a society for hating foreigners.
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It is known that the best nations have always been those which concede the greatest amount of liberty to women.
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The whole history between Haiti and the Dominican Republic is complicated. We share the island of Hispaniola, and Haiti occupied the Dominican Republic for twenty-two years after 1804 for fear that the French and Spanish would come back and reinstitute slavery. So we have this unique situation of being two independent nations on the same island, but with each community having its own grievance.
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Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations.
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The only way to continue to have a robust economy is to out-innovate other nations.
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Nations are divided, but we citizens need not be.
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I see Libya as a member of the Non-Aligned Movement and a sovereign State of the nearly 200 members of the United Nations.
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Perfection is a disease of a nation.
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There will be no peace among the nations without peace among the religions. There will be no peace among the religions without dialogue among the religions.
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The message of some churches today seems to be, "Only sing if it appeals to your sense of style, or your demographic." Yet when we look at heaven, we see that every tribe and every nation will sing together.
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All nations are degrading and consuming their environment to a point beyond capacity. In the past 15 years in the U.S. we have added 1300 cities with populations over 100,000. When the environment is forced to file Chapter 11, the ecology collapses. Nations recover from war but not from a failed eco-system. The status of our environment is more threatening than all wars. It is forever.
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The choice, however, is as clear now for nations as it was once for the individual: peace or extinction.
