Nations Quotes
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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
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By choosing a woman to run for your nation's second highest office, you send a powerful signal to all Americans. There are no doors we cannot unlock. We will place no limits on achievement.
Geraldine Ferraro
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Anybody from the public can come in and observe ballots being processed and those votes being counted in elections officials' offices in any county in any state in the nation.
Audie Cornish
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The most civilized people are as near to barbarism as the most polished steel is to rust. Nations, like metals, have only a superficial brilliancy.
Antoine Rivarol
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When nations grow old the Arts grow cold And commerce settles on every tree.
William Blake
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Someone has said that nations have interests, they don't have friends, and you see that over and over in U.S. policy.
Edwidge Danticat
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Few would venture to deny the advantages of temperance in increasing the efficiency of a nation at war.
William Lyon Mackenzie
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In the life of nations, what in the last resort decides questions is a kind of Judgment Court of God... Always before god and the world the stronger has the right to carry through what he wills.
Adolf Hitler
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The English (it must be owned) are rather a foul-mouthed nation.
William Hazlitt
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It is now time for our nation to frustrate the wild dreams of the whites.
Sadao Araki
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To foretell the destiny of a nation, it is necessary to open a book that tells of her past.
Jose Rizal
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Nations have passed away and left no traces, And history gives the naked cause of it - One single simple reason in all cases; They fell because their peoples were not fit.
Rudyard Kipling
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The conscience of this nation is the Constitution.
William O. Douglas
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The United Nations ... [is] a place for prostitution under the feet of Americans.
Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf
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Bolivia is a majority indigenous nation, but that majority has always been excluded.
Evo Morales
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The fight for ideals can no longer take the form of fight between nations, because the lines of division on moral questions are within the nations themselves and intersect the political frontiers.
Norman Angell
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It is time to change our policy of appeasement toward the Palestinians, to strengthen our ties with the nation of Israel.
Rick Perry
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The wise men of old have sent most of their morality down the stream of time in the light skiff of apothegm or epigram; and the proverbs of nations, which embody the commonsense of nations, have the brisk concussion of the most sparkling wit.
Edwin Percy Whipple
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It is with nations as it is with individuals. A book of history is a book of sermons.
Arthur Conan Doyle
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The fate of a nation depends on the way that they eat.
Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
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How can you hope to build up a nation by fragmenting its politics into opposing camps? Whatever one group builds, the other will endeavour to destroy.
Mohammed Reza Pahlavi
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It is only barbarous nations who have a sudden growth after a victory.
Victor Hugo
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O Cyrus , great King, King of Kings, Achaemenian King, King of the land of Iran. I, the Shahanshah of Iran, offer thee salutations from myself and from my nation. Rest in peace, for we are awake, and we will always stay awake.
Mohammed Reza Pahlavi
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Verily I say unto you all: Arise and shine forth, that thy light may be a standard for the nations.
Delbert L. Stapley