Nations Quotes

The personal was, compared with the tides of great nations, a bothersome detail.
Gregory Benford



Moving to the forefront of advanced nations is not a choice but a national duty. This requires, among other things, erecting the best industrial property protection systems despite all challenges, particularly in the transition phase that we must endure.
Talal Abu-Ghazaleh



God has made Canada one of those nations which cannot be conquered and cannot be destroyed, except by itself.
Sir Norman Angell



Let the League of Nations say whatever it pleases, let America offer whatever interference, let China decry Japan's action at the top of her voice, but Japan must adhere to her course unswervingly.
Baron Sadao Araki



Unique among the nations, America recognized the source of our character as being godly and eternal, not being civic and temporal. And because we have understood that our source is eternal, America has been different. We have no king but Jesus.
John David Ashcroft



Today I send you back to your homelands across the great North Seas as my Ambassadors of Peace and Fellowship among the Nations of the World.
Robert Stephenson Smyth Baden-Powell



Today I send you back to your homes in the Great Westlands to the Pacific and beyond as my Ambassadors of Peace and Fellowship among the Nations of the World.
Robert Stephenson Smyth Baden-Powell



We consider that the United Nations' ideal is a Jewish ideal.
David Ben Gurion



No matter how well intended our country is, we cannot expect other nations to trust us as much as we trust ourselves.
Joseph Robinette



When nations grow old, the Arts grow cold, And Commerce settles on every tree.
William Blake



Poetry fettered fetters the human race. Nations are destroyed, or flourish, in proportion as their poetry, painting, and music are destroyed or flourish!
William Blake



War is a lottery in which nations ought to risk nothing but small amounts.
Napoleon Bonaparte



If we don't stand together, we will never catch up and the industrialised nations won't care. I predict it here today as your brother.
Roelof Frederik



And why should we, of all people, expect the proud new developing nations to see the world precisely as we see it? Was any new nation ever more outspoken, independent and unaligned than the young America of Jefferson, Jackson, and Lincoln?
Chester Bliss Bowles



I call upon all nations to do everything they can to stop these terrorist killers. Thank you. Now watch this drive.
George Walker Bush