nations quotes

Wars of nations are fought to change maps. But wars of poverty are fought to map change.

Every nation in every region now has a decision to make. Either you are with us, or you are with the terrorists.

We can’t allow the world’s worst leaders to blackmail, threaten, hold freedom-loving nations hostage with the world’s worst weapons.

The fault lines are shifting from the boundaries of nations into the web of our societies and the streets of our cities. And, terrorism and extremism are a global force that are larger than their changing names, groups, territories and targets.

Today different ethnic groups and different nations come together due to common sense.

We cannot expect that all nations will adopt like systems, for conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.

If they want peace, nations should avoid the pin-pricks that precede cannon shots.

Insanity in individuals is something rare – but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.

We are asking the nations of Europe between whom rivers of blood have flowed to forget the feuds of a thousand years.

Madness is rare in individuals – but in groups, parties, nations, and ages it is the rule.

Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations; entangling alliances with none.

Commerce with all nations, alliance with none, should be our motto.

The happiest women, like the happiest nations, have no history.

Great nations write their autobiographies in three manuscripts – the book of their deeds, the book of their words and the book of their art.

For other nations, utopia is a blessed past never to be recovered; for Americans it is just beyond the horizon.

Most nations, as well as people are impossible only in their youth; they become incorrigible as they grow older.

In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.

National character is only another name for the particular form which the littleness, perversity and baseness of mankind take in every country. Every nation mocks at other nations, and all are right.

Education is the cheap defense of nations.

There is but one law for all, namely that law which governs all law, the law of our Creator, the law of humanity, justice, equity – the law of nature and of nations.

I cannot lead you into battle. I do not give you laws or administer justice but I can do something else – I can give my heart and my devotion to these old islands and to all the peoples of our brotherhood of nations.

Observe good faith and justice toward all nations. Cultivate peace and harmony with all.

Just as a man would not cherish living in a body other than his own, so do nations not like to live under other nations, however noble and great the latter may be.

Contention does not usually begin as strife between countries. More often, it starts with an individual, for we can contend within ourselves over simple matters of right and wrong. From there, contention can infect neighbors and nations like a spreading sore.

Every nation ridicules other nations, and all are right.

Risk is a part of God’s game, alike for men and nations.

We should remember that there are nations which meet more than 30 to 60% of their power requirements through the nuclear power system.

God grant that not only the love of liberty but a thorough knowledge of the rights of man may pervade all the nations of the earth, so that a philosopher may set his foot anywhere on its surface and say: ‚This is my country.‘

Nations consist of people. And with their effort, a nation can accomplish all it could ever want.