Nations Quotes
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For, since the fall of Adam had brought disgrace upon all his posterity, God restores those, whom He separates as His own, so that their condition may be better than that of all other nations. At the same time it must be remarked, that this grace of renewal is effaced in many who have afterwards profaned it
John Calvin
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When you look around the world, every place that socialism has been implemented, it has failed miserably, destroying the economy, freedom and - in Germany, the Soviet Union and other nations - millions of lives.
Rick Perry
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Whether in peaceful trade or warlike attack, the sea unites more than it divides. Even if it were possible to treat England, or the British Isles, as a single, homogenous, united nation, it would still be impossible to write its naval history without reference to the histories of the other nations, near and far, with which the sea has connected it.
Nicholas Rodger
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I believe that every people and every nation has the right to be free and independent.
David Duke
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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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I don't want to force the peacekeeping nations to feel like I'm pushing them out.
Michel Martelly
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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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Happy is the nation without a history.
Cesare Beccaria
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If wars in the future are to be prevented the nations must be united in their determination to keep the peace under law.
Harry S Truman
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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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I believe that there is no test of greatness in periods, nations or men more sure than the development, among them or in them, of a noble grotesque, and no test of comparative smallness or limitation, of one kind or another, more sure than the absence of grotesque invention, or incapability of understanding it.
John Ruskin
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I want co-operation between nations for the salvaging of civilization, but co-operation presupposes free nations worthy of co-operation.
Mahatma Gandhi
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The punishment of death is the war of a nation against a citizen whose destruction it judges to be necessary or useful.
Cesare Beccaria
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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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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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Nations are always making mistakes because they do not understand each other's psychology.
Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Grey of Fallodon
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Lasting peace and security in Iraq and Afghanistan will be achieved when we establish the conditions for democratic, economically viable nations.
John Warner
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When I was a young man, I was poor. In a war with other nations, I was in eighty-seven fights. There I received my name and was made Chief of my nation. But now I am old and am for peace.
Red Cloud
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There is no art or science that is too difficult for industry to attain to; it is the gift of tongues, and makes a man understood and valued in all countries, and by all nations; it is the philosopher's stone, that turns all metals, and even stones, into gold, and suffers not want to break into its dwelling; it is the northwest passage, that brings the merchant's ships as soon to him as he can desire: in a word, it conquers all enemies, and makes fortune itself pay contribution.
Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon
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By unwillingly robbing post-conflict nations of their most talented people, we in Europe are improving the odds these states fail, and feed the vicious circle of future conflicts.
Miroslav Lajcak
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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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Poor nations are hungry, and rich nations are proud; and pride and hunger will ever be at variance.
Jonathan Swift