Nations Quotes
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Happy is the nation without a history.
Cesare Beccaria
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I believe God was in Christ, not will be, perhaps, maybe if we're good boys and girls, it's over, it's done, we are one people, race is a violation, nations are a violation.
Will Davis Campbell
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Even 51 per cent of a nation can establish a totalitarian and dictatorial règime, suppress minorities, and still remain democratic; there is, as we have said, little doubt that the American Congress and the French Chambre have a power over their respective nations which would rouse the envy of a Louis XIV or a George III were they alive today.
Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn
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There should be a study of a house directly elected by the people of the world to whom the nations are accountable.
Ernest Bevin
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Los Angeles is the nation's cultural scapegoat.
Sandra Tsing Loh
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Luxembourg's aims is to be in the top 10 space-faring nations in the world.
Etienne Schneider
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Binding emissions targets for the developing nations are out of the question.
Eileen Claussen
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Happy nations have no history. History is the study of mankind's misfortune.
Raymond Queneau
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A nation without heroes is nothing.
Roberto Clemente
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The health of nations is more important than the wealth of nations.
Will Durant
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When we worship God as we ought that's when the nations listen.
Edmund Clowney
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Superstition, in all times and among all nations, is the fear of a spirit whose passions are those of a man, whose acts are the acts of a man; who is present in some places, not in others; who makes no places holy and not others; who is kind to one person, unkind to another; who is pleased or angry according to the degree of attention you pay him, or praise you refuse to him; who is hostile generally to human pleasure, but may be bribed by sacrifice of a part of that pleasure into permitting the rest. This, whatever form of faith it colors, is the essence of superstition.
John Ruskin
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It is in the American interest to put an end to Nationhood. That is the goal in global government. America must get out of the United Nations or our sovereign Republic will not survive.
Walt Whitman Rostow
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The future of this nation depends on the Christian training of our youth.
George Washington
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As the United Nations pushes for jurisdiction over the globe, it is important to remember how it has acted in Bosnia. The character of an institution, no less than of an individual, is revealed through actions, not words.
Wendy McElroy
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Wise laws and just restraints are to a noble nation not chains, but chains of mail, -- strength and defense, though something of an incumbrance.
John Ruskin
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Freedom is not nurtured by nations preparing for war.
William Appleman Williams
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Conquerors never, never conquer a nation to bring freedom. They brought control.
Ernst Zundel
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Make disciples of all the nations in my Name.
Elton Welsby
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No nation on this globe should be more internationally minded than America because it was built by all nations.
Harry S Truman
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We in Wales see ourselves as a nation. We're not English. We're far from it. Yeah, we're part of the U.K. We've benefited from being members of the U.K.
Carwyn Jones
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Forgetfulness, and I would even say historical error, are essential in the creation of a nation.
Ernest Renan
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Nations, like individuals in a state of nature, are equal and independent, possessing certain rights and owing certain duties to each other.
Millard Fillmore
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As one southern-born antislavery activist later wrote, it was a “sad satire to call the States ‘United,’” because in one-half of the country slavery was basic to its way of life while in the other it was fading or already gone. The founding fathers tried to stitch these two nations together with no idea how long the stitching would hold.
Andrew Delbanco