Nations Quotes
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Poor nations are hungry, and rich nations are proud; and pride and hunger will ever be at variance.
Jonathan Swift
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USURY is the cancer of the world, which only the surgeon’s knife of Fascism can cut out of the life of the nations.
Ezra Pound
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Historically, foreign powers have always been the ones to keep Latin nations divided.
Evo Morales
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A nation is a body of people who have done great things together.
Ernest Renan
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Our bridge to the future must include bridges to other nations, because we remain the world's indispensable nation to advance prosperity, peace and freedom and to keep our own children safe from the dangers of terror and weapons of mass destruction.
Bill Clinton
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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.
Paul Keating
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No choice we can make as a nation lies between our history and our geography. We can hardly change either of them. They are immutable. The only choice we can make as a nation is the choice about our future.
Paul Keating
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We have got to encourage other nations also to come along with us with the impacts of climate change, what we can do about that.
Sarah Palin
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Nations with too many laws, endless regulations, just cannot grow or generate enough jobs. Wake up...
Ziad K. Abdelnour
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Any nation that decides the only way to achieve peace is through peaceful means is a nation that will soon be a piece of another nation.
Richard M. Nixon
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A nation has its first obligation to its own workers and its own poor.
Richard Lamm
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Brazil is the second blackest nation in the world.
Henry Louis Gates
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Music is the language of the soul; and for two people of different nations or races to unite, there is no better means than music...
Hazrat Inayat Khan
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It will be just as easy for nations to get along in a republic of the world as it is for you to get along in the republic of the United States. Now, if Kansas and Colorado have a quarrel over a watershed they don't call out the national guard in each state and go to war over it. They bring suit in the Supreme Court and abide by its decision. There isn't a reason in the world why we can't do that internationally.
Harry S Truman
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Thy Banners gleam a little, and are furled; Against thy turrets surge His phantom tow'rs; Drugged with his Opiates the nations nod, Refusing still the beauty of thine hours; And fragile is thy tenure of this world Still haunted by the monstrous ghost of God.
George Sterling
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One of the most basic principles for making and keeping peace within and between nations. . . is that in political, military, moral, and spiritual confrontations, there should be an honest attempt at the reconciliation of differences before resorting to combat
Jimmy Carter
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I think it's important that we do it defeat ISIS in concert with other nations in Europe, the Middle East, elsewhere if necessary. And that means you've got to work with people. You don't insult them. You don't insult their religion. And it means we have to see our entire country, all of the people in it, as part of our first line of defense.
Hillary Clinton
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Besides the progress of industry and technique, we see a growing discontent among the masses; we see, besides the expansion ("expansion,", Fr.) of instruction, distrust and hatred expanding among nations ("s'étendre la méfiance et la haine entre," Fr.), that vie with one another ("qui rivalisent à l'envi," Fr.), by the increase of their armies and the improvement of their engines of murder ("engins meurtriers", Fr).
African Spir
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The greatest men of a nation are those it puts to death.
Ernest Renan
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Nations that embrace the free market to the greatest extent prosper the most.
James Cook