Nations Quotes
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As to the first, I do not know that I have done very much myself to promote fraternity between nations but I do know that there can be no more important purpose for any man's activity or interests.
Lester B. Pearson -
Perfection is a disease of a nation.
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The choice, however, is as clear now for nations as it was once for the individual: peace or extinction.
Lester B. Pearson -
Parliament is more than procedure - it is the custodian of the nation's freedom.
John G. Diefenbaker -
With all my heart I believe that the world's present system of sovereign nations can only lead to barbarism, war and inhumanity, and that only world law can assure progress towards a civilized peaceful community.
Albert Einstein -
Peace will not come out of a clash of arms but out of justice lived and done by unarmed nations in the face of odds.
Mahatma Gandhi -
It's not easy to get human beings into orbit. So far only three nations have been able to do that, with all the resources that they put together. And I'm just a little skeptical that that's going to be done by the private sector without making use of what has been done by the government.
Buzz Aldrin -
It was right for them to make bond-servants of the nations round them, they having an express permission to do it from him who has a right to dispose of all men as he pleases.
Samuel Hopkins
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The meeting between Boris Yeltsin and Jiang Zemin took place in a very warm and friendly atmosphere, ... Our relations are now at a peak and that meets the interests of both nations as well as the interests of regional and international stability.
Igor Ivanov -
The individual is ephemeral, races and nations come and pass away, but man remains.
Nikola Tesla -
Great nations write their autobiographies in three manuscripts the book of their deeds, the book of their words, and the book of their art. Not one of these books can be understood unless we read the two others; but of the three, the only quite trustworthy one is the last. The acts of a nation may be triumphant by its good fortune; and its words mighty by the genius of a few of its children: but its art, only by the general gifts and common sympathies of the race.
John Ruskin -
I think the public needs to be reminded just how much inspiration and intention was given throughout the world to be bold, to send human beings to the moon in the '60s and the '70s. It's important now to bring together the nations that weren't able to do it then and help them do it. We need to move forward.
Buzz Aldrin -
The destiny of nations depends on how they nourish themselves.
Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin -
The only way to continue to have a robust economy is to out-innovate other nations.
Steve Case
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Scotland should be nothing less than equal with all the other nations of the world.
Sean Connery -
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.
Keith Getty -
When the family dies, the nation follows.
Mark Steyn -
The United States, and other advanced nations, will someday be able to produce instruments of death so terrible the world will be in abject terror of itself and its ability to end civilization.... Such war-making weapons should be developed - but only for purposes of discovery and experimentation
Thomas A. Edison -
Nations like the Cuban and the Swiss Can never hope to wage a Global Mission. No Holy Wars for them. The most the small Can ever give us is a nuisance brawl.
Robert Frost -
A world without the United Nations or with a paralyzed United Nations would be far more costly to all of us and far more dangerous to peace and stability.
Richard Holbrooke
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The dissolution of the nation destroys the national religion, and dethrones the national deity.
William Robertson Smith -
We are bigger in number than as many as 131 independent nations, why should we remain deprived of independence?
Amanullah Khan -
Be Americans. Let there be no sectionalism, no North, South, East or West. You are all dependent on one another and should be one in union. In one word, be a nation. Be Americans, and be true to yourselves.
George Washington -
Commerce is the equalizer of the wealth of nations.
William E. Gladstone