Quotes About Nations

If the EPA cannot or will not act to halt the toxic e-waste trade to developing nations, then Congress should take action.

There's a lot of exaggerated talk about CAFTA, but it's actually a fairly routine trade agreement. Although it involves fairly small nations, they're still more important trade partners than places like Australia or many other larger nations.

I am more interested in fair and balanced trade between nations than I am in free trade that encumbers us in a multinational pact that is refereed by the WTO.

The E.U. is more than just a trade organization or a common market; it is a guarantee of democracy, freedom, justice, and human rights. Nations cannot stay in the E.U. if they do not respect these guarantees.

America has global trade with plenty of nations that provide inexpensive labor, but it's better for us when they're in our own hemisphere, rather than sending that business halfway around the world.

The biggest trade that Germany and Britain had was with each other, in the prewar period; I think I'm right in that. Two highly industrialized nations had the most trade with each other, and it wasn't tariff policies alone that made trade relations better for both of them.

I do believe that international trade agreements benefit both nations, always.

The E.U. is one of our largest trading partners, and any negotiations legally must be conducted at the E.U. level and not with individual nations.

Let's get rid of all our subsidies together. Let's join hands as wealthy industrialised nations and say to the world, we're going to get rid of all our agricultural subsidies together.

Interest does not tie nations together it sometimes separates them. But sympathy and understanding does unite them.

In 30 years of travel and training leaders -164 nations - I've never met anyone who didn't need massive doses of love.

When nations grow old the Arts grow cold And commerce settles on every tree

The true and solid peace of nations consists not in equality of arms, but in mutual trust alone.

He told us that nations of men fell into disorder, so nations of law were set up instead. He told us that nations of law then forgot justice and let the law become a Game, a Game in which the moves and the winning were more important than truth. He told us to seek justice rather than the Game.

It is apparent that nations cannot exist for us. They are the playthings of children, such toys as children break from boredom and weariness. The branch of a tree is my country. My freedom sleeps in a mulberry bush. My country is in the shivering legs of a little lost dog.

It almost looks as if analysis were the third of those "impossible" professions in which one can be quite sure of unsatisfying results. The other two, much older-established, are the bringing-up of children and the government of nations.

Gli Italiani ridono della vita: ne ridono assai più e con più verità e persuasione intima di disprezzo e di freddezza di tutte le altre nazioni.

My story is the story of countless millions of children whose families and nations were torn apart for money in the name of Jesus Christ.

Free nations are peaceful nations. Free nations don't attack each other. Free nations don't develop weapons of mass destruction.

He rules the world with truth and grace, and makes the nations prove, the glories of His righteousness and wonders of His love.

But what more oft in nations grown corrupt, And by their vices brought to servitude, Than to love bondage more than liberty, Bondage with ease than strenuous liberty.

I have ever hated all nations, professions, and communities, and all my love is toward individuals.

But nations never die of the death of a man, however great he may have been; their birth and their death derive from other causes.

There are families whose greatness lies in their past, and in their legacies, Mrs. Schuyler answered. That is a quality much to be admired, for tradition is what binds us as a society. But there are some families, like some nations, whose greatness is a future development, and that quality, though harder to discern than the prestige of manor houses and coats of arms and titles of rank and office, is no less valuable, if, indeed, not more so.