Nations proverbs

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◆ As states subsist in part by keeping their weaknesses from being known, so is it the quiet of families to have their chancery and their parliament within doors, and to compose and determine all emergent differences there.

- John Donne98

◆ It's the quality of the ordinary, the straight, the square, that accounts for the great stability and success of our nation. It's a quality to be proud of. But it's a quality that many people seem to have neglected.

- Gerald R Ford98

◆ People, when they first come to America, whether as travelers or settlers, become aware of a new and agreeable feeling: that the whole country is their oyster.

- Alistair Cooke98

◆ [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 Parker98

◆ The great nations have always acted like gangsters, and the small nations like prostitutes

- Stanley Kubrick98

◆ I also wish that the Pledge of Allegiance were directed at the Constitution and the Bill of Rights, as it is when the President takes his oath of office, rather than to the flag and the nation

- Dr Carl Sagan98

◆ Of all nature's gifts to the human race, what is sweeter to a man than his children?

- Marcus Tullius Cicero98

◆ We cannot expect that all nations will adopt like systems, for conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.

- John Fitzgerald Kennedy98

◆ It's important for us to explain to our nation that life is important. It's not only life of babies, but it's life of children living in, you know, the dark dungeons of the Internet.

- George W Bush98

◆ No nation is permitted to live in ignorance with impunity

- Thomas Jefferson98

◆ All through history it's the nations that have given most to generals and the least to the people that have been the first to fall

- Harry S Truman98

◆ I cannot lead you into battle. I do not give you laws or administer justice but I can do something else - I can give my heart and my devotion to these old islands and to all the peoples of our brotherhood of nations.

- Elizabeth II98

◆ A nation that cannot preserve itself ought to die, and it will die - die in the grasp of the evils it is too feeble to overthrow

- Morris Sheppard98

◆ Every nation sincerely desires peace; and all nations pursue courses which if persisted in, must make peace impossible

- Norman Angell98

◆ So that this nation may long endure, I urge you to follow in the hallowed footsteps of the great disobedience of history that freed exiles, founded religions, defeated tyrants, and yes, in the hands of an aroused rabble in arms and a few great men,

- Charlton Heston98