Quotes About Nations

But just as haste and restlessness are typical of our present-day life, so change also takes place more rapidly than before. This applies to change in the relationships between nations as it does to change within an individual nation.

Half a world away nations that once lived under oppression and tyranny are now budding democracies due in large part to America 's leadership and the sacrifices of our military.

It is time for free nations to stop ignoring or even normalizing tyranny. Not only is it the right thing to do - but it's also the only way to stand up for our national security and the safety of the Canadian people.

The Netherlands and the UK are both seafaring nations and so our ability to create jobs and to generate future growth is built on the free market.

The U.N. and other international bodies, along with wealthier nations, could manage the unavoidable migration from poorer countries if there were greater focus on stopping the larger chaos created by leaders who finance and support terrorism in the name of Islam.

First and foremost arms are tools in the service of rival nations, pointing at the possibility of a future war.

From hence, let fierce contending nations know, what dire effects from civil discord flow.

One day History will pass judgment on each of the nations at war; she will weigh their measure of errors, lies, and heinous follies. Let us try to make ours light before her!

I am beginning to give revelation over ley lines and power lines over nations and continents. I am releasing angels to war along with you and bring revelation over power sources and strong men.

If wars in the future are to be prevented the nations must be united in their determination to keep the peace under law.

Nations like the Cuban and the Swiss Can never hope to wage a Global Mission. No Holy Wars for them. The most the small Can ever give us is a nuisance brawl.

Now that their long war was over, they could get on with the proper concern of all civilised nations, which is to prepare for the next one.

Nations with nations mix'd confus'dly die, and lost in one promiscuous carnage lie.

Whoever is victor, there should be, after the war, a commonwealth of all nations.

They are nations of eternal war. All their energies are expended in the destruction of the labor, property, and lives of their people.

It is but seldom that any one overt act produces hostilities between two nations; there exists, more commonly, a previous jealousy and ill will, a predisposition to take offense.

Those are the men, ' added Bolkonsky with a sigh which he could not suppress, as they went out of the palace, 'those are the men who decide the fate of nations.

What does our commitment to nonviolence mean as citizens of one of the most powerful and oppressive nations in recorded history?

I have this feeling that immigrants unwittingly help to keep peace between nations by being scapegoats for national ills that would otherwise be blamed on neighbours.

War does one good—it teaches people geography.

The future belongs to nations who have grains not guns.

Mothers should negotiate between nations. Mothers of fighting countries would agree: Stop this killing now. Stop it now.

The wisdom of nations lies in their proverbs, which are brief and pithy.

People do change - individuals, families, nations - and the pace of transformation need not be geological.