Nations quotations

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◆ Our success as a nation is not measured by how many years we have governed or how many wars we have won. It is measured by the quality of life which we have created for the society that our ideals were founded upon.

- Matthew Morgan99

◆ There is no calamity which a great nation can invite which equals that which follows a supine submission to wrong and injustice

- Grover Cleveland98

◆ I am going to build the kind of nation that President Roosevelt hoped for, President Truman worked for, and President Kennedy died for.

- Lyndon B Johnson98

◆ A nation may lose its liberties in a day and not miss them in a century.

- Charles De Montesquieu98

◆ Men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all the other alternatives.

- Abba Eban98

◆ In a republican nation, whose citizens are to be led by reason and persuasion and not by force, the art of reasoning becomes of first importance

- Thomas Jefferson98

◆ There is such a thing as a nation being so right that it it does not need to convince others by force that it is right

- Woodrow T Wilson98

◆ A nation reveals itself not only by the men it produces but also by the men it honors, the men it remembers

- John Fitzgerald Kennedy98

◆ States that rise quickly, just as all the other things of nature that are born and grow rapidly, cannot have roots and ramifications; the first bad weather kills them

- Niccolo Machiavelli98

◆ Each nation feels superior to other nations. That breeds patriotism - and wars.

- Dale Carnegie98

◆ If the United Nations is to survive, those who represent it must bolster it; those who advocate it must submit to it; and those who believe in it must fight for it.

- Norman Cousins98

◆ A nation can assume that the addition of the words under God to its pledge of allegiance gives evidence that its citizens actually believe in God whereas all it really proves is that they believe in believing in God

- Huston Smith98

◆ France is delighted at this new opportunity to show the world that when one has the will one can succeed in joining peoples who have been brought close by history.

- Francois Mitterrand98

◆ There was never a nation great until it came to the knowledge that it had nowhere in the world to go for help

- Charles Dudley Warner98

◆ Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations; entangling alliances with none.

- Thomas Jefferson98