Quotes on Nations

Architecture is the work of nations

A trait no other nation seems to possess in quite the same degree as we do namely, a feeling of almost childish injury and resentment unless the world as a whole recognizes how innocent we are of anything but the most generous and harmless intentions

No nation is permitted to live in ignorance with impunity

A nation, like a person, has a mind - a mind that must be kept informed and alert, that must know itself, that understands the hopes and needs of its neighbors - all the other nations that live within the narrowing circle of the world

The laws of a nation form the most instructive portion of its history

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.

I have always given it as my decided opinion that no nation had a right to intermeddle in the internal concerns of another; that every one had a right to form and adopt whatever government they liked best to live under themselves.

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

The repose of nations cannot be secure without arms, armies cannot be maintained without pay, nor can the pay be produced without taxes

No modern nation has ever constructed a foreign policy that was acceptable to its intellectuals

Report of fashions in proud Italy Whose manners still our tardy-apish nation Limps after in base imitation

There is a moral law in this world which has its application both to individuals and organized bodies of men. You cannot go on violating these laws in the name of your nation, yet enjoy their advantage as individuals. We may forget truth for our conv

Govern a great nation as you would cook a small fish. Do not overdo it.

A nation that has no music and no fairytales is a tragedy.

We need to awaken the next generation to understand that we are all change-makers. The nation is not as strong as its government but its next generation

Glory to God in the highest, Ohio has saved the Nation.

I mean, the nation in which we live - and the world in which we live - is so extraordinarily more like a future than the futures that we're being sold on the screen and on television.

A Nation's character is typified by its dancers.

Football's the biggest game in the world. America's the greatest sporting nation there is. To play some part in putting those two things together: why wouldn't I be excited about that?

A citizen of an advanced industrialized nation consumes in six months the energy and raw materials that have to last the citizen of a developing country his entire lifetime.

I believe that each of us-no matter what our age or background or walk of life-each of us has something to contribute to the life of this nation.