Quotes About Nations

O Music! Miraculous art! A blast of thy trumpet and millions rush forward to die; a peal of thy organ and uncounted nations sink down to pray.

Nations, like individuals in a state of nature, are equal and independent, possessing certain rights and owing certain duties to each other.

But in every matter the consensus of opinion among all nations is to be regarded as the law of nature.

There is nothing perhaps more adverse to nature and reason than to hold in obedience remote countries and foreign nations, in opposition to their inclination and interest.

I deem it established, then, that the Constitution does not recognize property in man, but leaves that question, as between the states, to the law of nature and of nations.

By the laws of God, of nature, of nations, and of your country you are and ought to be as free a people as your brethren in England.

Civilisation and the life of nations are governed by the same laws as prevail throughout nature and organic life.

The natural resources of the world do not belong to any person, organization, collective, or so-called nation.

Fraternity among nations, however, touches the deepest desire of human nature.

The unattractive thing about chauvinism is not so much the aversion to other nations as the love of one's own.

Men may be linked in friendship. Nations are linked only by interests.

The Athenian democracy suffered much from that narrowness of patriotism which is the ruin of all nations.

We need to have a sense of patriotism like Jesus Christ, to the Kingdom first and to our nations second

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

I am sure that if the mothers of various nations could meet, there would be no more wars.

World-wide practice of Conservation and the fair and continued access by all nations to the resources they need are the two indispensable foundations of continuous plenty and of permanent peace

There will be no peace among the nations without peace among the religions. There will be no peace among the religions without dialogue among the religions.

Before peace between the nations, we have to find peace inside that small nation which is our own being.

A nation's hope of lasting peace cannot be firmly based upon any race in armaments but rather upon just relations and honest understanding with all other nations.

The diffusion of a universalist culture and of a pedagogy of peace appears more than ever to be the path that we must follow for the salvation of all nations on earth.

Class struggle: external peace, international solidarity, peace among peoples. This is the sacred slogan of international socialist democracy that liberates nations.

Let peace, descending from her native heaven, bid her olives spring amidst the joyful nations; and plenty, in league with commerce, scatter blessings from her copious hand!

It is extremely important that mass media, having freed from the relics of the Cold War, served for peace and dialogue between nations and religions, the rich and the poor, countries and continents.

[The United States and Israel] share many common objectives ... chief of which is the building of a better world in which every nation can develop its resources and develop them in freedom and peace.