Quotes on Nations

Nations, like plants and human beings, grow. And if the development is thwarted they are dwarfed and overshadowed.

Every nation has a right to govern itself internally under what forms it pleases, and to change these forms at its own will.

To be the father of a nation is a great honor, but to be the father of a family is a greater joy.

The earth, the sea and air are the concern of every nation. And science, technology, and education can be the ally of every nation.

We will neglect our cities to our peril, for in neglecting them we neglect the nation.

The nation is divided, half patriots and half traitors, and no man can tell which from which.

Whether we like it or not, we have all been born into this world as part of one great human family. Rich or poor, educated or uneducated, belonging to one nation or another, to one religion or another, adhering to this ideology or that, ultimately each of is just a human being like everyone else. We all desire happiness and do not want suffering.

Let us join hands and build a truly South African nation.

Human rights are something you were born with. Human rights are your God-given rights. Human rights are the rights that are recognized by all nations of this earth.

None but an armed nation can dispense with a standing army

A nation that does not honor its heroes will not long endure.

History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.

National character is only another name for the particular form which the littleness, perversity and baseness of mankind take in every country. Every nation mocks at other nations, and all are right.

Households, cities, countries and nations have enjoyed great happiness, when a single individual has taken heed of the Good and Beautiful. Such men not only liberate themselves; they fill those they meet with a free mind.

It requires philosophy and heroism to rise above the opinion of the wise men of all nations and races.

The first step in liquidating a people is to erase its memory. Destroy its books, its culture, its history. Then have somebody write new books, manufacture a new culture, invent a new history. Before long that nation will begin to forget what it is and what it was... The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting.

The seventh factor of the basic ingredients of genius, as determined from an extensive analysis of the lives of outstanding men of this nation, is *the habit of going the extra mile.* You will never be a genius unless you make it a habit to do more and better than you are paid to do, every single day of your life.

Each nation has an identity and _x000D_ destiny. As far as Bharat is concerned, _x000D_ Hindu is its identity and religion is its _x000D_ way of working

The greatest miracle of the Bible is that the prophets of Israel could keep a religion as clean as a hounds tooth amid all the corruption and idolatry of the nations surrounding them.

REPUBLIC, n. A nation in which, the thing governing and the thing governed being the same, there is only a permitted authority to enforce an optional obedience.

In a time of war the nation is always of one mind, eager to hear something good of themselves and ill of the enemy. At this time the task of the news-writer is easy; they have nothing to do but to tell that a battle is expected, and afterwards that a battle has been fought, in which we and our friends, whether conquering or conquered, did all, and our enemies did nothing.