Nations Quotes
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By the laws of God, of nature, of nations, and of your country you are and ought to be as free a people as your brethren in England.
Jonathan Swift -
It is essential for world peace that the world religions make peace with each other. If they don't, we can hardly expect the nations of the world to lay down their arms.
Thomas Keating
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Nations that embrace the free market to the greatest extent prosper the most.
James Cook -
These times, indeed all times, demand national political leaders who know not only our history but the history of the world and its nations and peoples. We need leaders of principle, courage, character, wisdom, and discipline; and yet we seem trapped by a system of choosing our presidents that pushes those who possess those traits aside in favor of others who look good on television, are skilled at slandering and demonizing their opponents in a campaign, and are able to raise the hundreds of millions of dollars required to ensure election at any cost.
Hal Moore -
All these other nations seem to appreciate what I'm doing and they want me to play the furthest out things.
Sun Ra -
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 -
Few nations match our rich resource of literature.
Charles Clarke -
A nation is a body of people who have done great things together.
Ernest Renan
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My favorite single line from the Quran is from Surah 49:13, which says that God made us different nations and tribes that we may come to know one another, in the sense that diversity is holy and it was created by God. What we humans are meant to do with that diversity is engage in positive interaction with each other and come to know one another because knowledge is holy and pluralism or positive engagement is holy.
Eboo Patel -
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 -
For over 221 years our Corps has done two things for this great Nation. We make Marines, and we win battles.
Charles C. Krulak -
The nation that will insist upon drawing a broad line of demarcation between the fighting man and the thinking man is liable to find its fighting done by fools and its thinking by cowards.
William Butler -
Anything that is as old as racism is in the blood line of the nation. It's not any superficial thing-that attitude is in the blood and we have to educate about it.
Nannie Helen Burroughs -
Old Dublin City there is no doubtin' Bates every city upon the say. 'Tis there you'd hear O'Connell spoutin' And Lady Morgan making tay. For 'tis the capital of the finest nation, With charmin' pisintry upon a fruitful sod, Fightin' like devils for conciliation, And hatin' each other for the Love of God.
Charles Lever
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I stand with the Navajo Nation and call upon the U.S. Government to do what is right and clean up this mess.
Erin Brockovich -
Historically, foreign powers have always been the ones to keep Latin nations divided.
Evo Morales -
Nations cannot endure in sin.
Ezra Taft Benson -
When you help make people healthier, it makes the nation healthier, it makes the world healthier, it makes the economy healthier.
Shonda Rhimes -
Can a nation be free if it oppresses other nations? It cannot.
Vladimir Lenin -
The greatest men of a nation are those it puts to death.
Ernest Renan