Nations quotes

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◆ The strength of a nation derives from the integrity of the home.

- Confucius100

◆ Bad men cannot make good citizens. It is when a people forget God that tyrants forge their chains. A vitiated state of morals, a corrupted public conscience, is incompatible with freedom. No free government, or the blessings of liberty, can be preserved to any people but by a firm adherence to justice, moderation, temperance, frugality, and virtue; and by a frequent recurrence to fundamental principles.

- Patrick Henry99

◆ Today, no walls can separate humanitarian or human rights crises in one part of the world from national security crises in another. What begins with the failure to uphold the dignity of one life all too often ends with a calamity for entire nations.

- Kofi Annan99

◆ No matter how big a nation is, it is no stronger that its weakest people, and as long as you keep a person down, some part of you has to be down there to hold him down, so it means you cannot soar as you might otherwise

- Marian Anderson99

◆ A nation which makes the final sacrifice for life and freedom does not get beaten

- Kemal Ataturk99

◆ The American idea is a free church in a free state, and a free and unsectarian public school in every ward and every village with its door wide open to children of all races and every creed

- Henry Cabot Lodge99

◆ Don't pretend to be captain weird. I just do what I do.

- Johnny Depp99

◆ They stick you with those names, those labels -- 'rebel' or whatever; whatever they like to use. Because they need a label; they need a name. They need something to put the price tag on the back of.

- Johnny Depp99

◆ America is a rebellious nation. Our whole history is treason; our blood was attained before we were born; our creeds were infidelity to the mother church; our constitution treason to our fatherland.

- Theodore Parker99

◆ I made efforts to swallow tears and to protect the species of the Japanese nation.

- Hirohito99

◆ If I can send the flower of the German nation into the hell of war without the smallest pity for the shedding of precious German blood, then surely I have the right to remove millions of an inferior race that breeds like vermin

- Adolf Hitler99

◆ She was mother not only to me but to the whole nation. She served the Indian people to the last drop of her blood.

- Rajiv Gandhi99

◆ To poison a nation, poison its stories. A demoralised nation tells demoralised stories to itself. Beware of the storytellers who are not fully conscious of the importance of their gifts, and who are irresponsible in the application of their art: they

- Ben Okri99

◆ Cricket civilizes people and creates good gentlemen I want everyone to play cricket in Zimbabwe; I want ours to be a nation of gentlemen

- Robert Mugabe99

◆ No man is an island entire of itself; every man is a part of a continent, a part of the main; if a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy friends or of thine own were . . .

- John Donne99