nations Quotes
Daily selection of quotes about nations.
“Education is the cheap defense of nations.”
- Edmund Burke
“Just think of what Woodrow Wilson stood for: he stood for world government. He wanted an early United Nations, League of Nations. But it was the conservatives, Republicans, that stood up against him.”
- Ron Paul
“The great nations have always acted like gangsters, and the small nations like prostitutes.”
- Stanley Kubrick
“Just as a man would not cherish living in a body other than his own, so do nations not like to live under other nations, however noble and great the latter may be.”
- Mahatma Gandhi
“It will give them the opportunity to show themselves worthy of the respect and friendship of peace-loving nations, and in time, to take an honorable place among members of the United Nations.”
- James F. Byrnes
“The slightest acquaintance with history shows that powerful republics are the most warlike and unscrupulous of nations.”
- Ambrose Bierce
“I cannot say that the attitude of the United Nations always is for the Israeli attitude. Israel, I think, has been under severe attacks by members of the United Nations many times.”
- Ariel Sharon
“Money, not morality, is the principle commerce of civilized nations.”
- Thomas Jefferson