Quotes About Nations

Liberty itself has appeared intolerable to those nations who have not been accustomed to enjoy it.

Democrats want to use the slowdown as an excuse to do what their special interests are always begging for: higher taxes, bigger government and less trade with other nations.

America is addicted to oil and increasing amounts of this oil comes from abroad. Some of the nations we depend on for oil have unstable governments or are hostile towards the United States.

I've served in 25 nations. I've seen where people don't trust their government. We're there. In the military, the last option is to send in the SEALs.

Our world is constantly in change and the great change is always toward freedom. When we speak of freedom we speak of equality. Nations will rise and fall but equality remains the ideal.

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

Humanistic values of equality and equal rights for all nations and individuals as crystallized in the principles of the United Nations Charter are mankind's great achievements in the 20th century.

Keeping small nations enslaved because of the deals between the great nations or because of any pragmatic considerations that might have been there are totally unacceptable.

Safety and happiness can only come from individuals, classes, and nations being honest and fair and kind to each other.

We wish the happiness and prosperity of every nation.

The health of nations is more important than the wealth of nations.

A knowledgeable and courageous U.S. president could help enormously in leading the world's nations toward saving the climate.

Cooperation and collaboration among nations and countries can help in the process of development of promoting welfare as well as bringing peace and stability.

What history teaches us is that neither nations nor governments ever learn anything from it.

The great nations have always acted like gangsters, and the small nations like prostitutes.

The parliamentary principle of decision by majorities only appears during quite short periods of history, and those are always periods of decadence in nations and States.

The Bible is the only force known to history that has freed enitre nations from corruption while simultaneously giving them political freedom.

The whole history of the world is summed up in the fact that, when nations are strong, they are not always just, and when they wish to be just, they are no longer strong.

If there is a single trait in our character that has historically set us apart from other nations, it is our determination to limit the authority of those who rule over us.

Boundary, n. In political geography, an imaginary line between two nations, separating the imaginary rights of one from the imaginary rights of another.

If we look to the history of other nations, ancient or modern, we find no example of a growth so rapid, so gigantic, of a people so prosperous and happy.

If you want to study the social and political history of modern nations, study hell.

If we go back in the history of different nations, violence and the use of force are part of their heritage. These are the traditions of mankind.

History is constantly repeating itself, making only such changes of programme as the growth of nations and centuries requires.