Quotes with nation-states

Quotes 281 till 300 of 622.

  • Belle Boyd My memoirs were written, and a portion of them already in the hands of the publishers, when the startling news came which has thrilled all Europe and filled her inhabitants with horror - the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States.
    Belle Boyd
    American Confederate spy (1844 - 1900)
    - +
     0
  • Aleksander Kwasniewski My message to the Americans, to the American President, is that I am coming from Poland, which is in good shape; it is much different than ten years ago when last state visit from Poland was here in the United States.
    Aleksander Kwasniewski
    Polish politician and journalist (1954 - )
    - +
     0
  • Brin-Jonathan Butler My mother left Hungary as a refugee, and she is not nostalgic for the life that she had back in Hungary, and yet Cubans certainly want the economic opportunity in the United States, but they're desperately homesick for the culture that they left behind.
    Brin-Jonathan Butler
    American journalist and filmmaker
    - +
     0
  • Barack Obama My parents shared not only an improbable love, they shared an abiding faith in the possibilities of this nation. They would give me an African name, Barack, or blessed, believing that in a tolerant America your name is no barrier to success.
    An American Story: The Speeches of Barack Obama : a Primer
    Barack Obama
    American politician (1961 - )
    - +
     0
  • Blake Farenthold My subcommittee will be thoroughly investigating this issue and demanding answers from Census officials on allegations that the Census Bureau is changing the wording of survey questions used to determine our nation's annual report on health insurance coverage.
    Blake Farenthold
    American politician and lobbyist (1961 - )
    - +
     0
  • Arthur Schopenhauer 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.
    Arthur Schopenhauer
    German philosopher (1788 - 1860)
    - +
     0
  • E. J. Hobsbawm Nations without a past are contradictions in terms. What makes a nation is the past, what justifies one nation against others is the past, and historians are the people who produce it.
    E. J. Hobsbawm
    British historian
    - +
     0
  • Bertrand Russell Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation can be trusted to act humanely or to think sanely under the influence of a great fear.
    An Outline of Intellectual Rubbish: A Hilarious Catalogue of Organized and Individual Stupidity
    Bertrand Russell
    English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
    - +
     0
  • Fjodor M. Dostojewski Neither man or nation can exist without a sublime idea.
    Fjodor M. Dostojewski
    Russisch writer (1821 - 1881)
    - +
     0
  • Bill Dedman New flood maps in many states have raised the estimation of flood risks along rivers, streams and oceans, adding many properties to flood zones for the first time.
    Bill Dedman
    American journalist (1960 - )
    - +
     0
  • Christopher Morley New York, the nation's thyroid gland.
    Christopher Morley
    American Novelist, Journalist, Poet (1890 - 1957)
    - +
     0
  • Carolyn Maloney Nine out of ten adult Americans have a checking account. It's the most widely used financial services product in the United States.
    Carolyn Maloney
    American politician (1946 - )
    - +
     0
  • Benjamin Robbins Curtis No government can be strong and flourishing while the national character is weak and degraded. A government must flourish and decay with its subjects; and, when a prince makes a law or performs an action which has a tendency to injure the character or prosperity of the nation, he injures himself.
    Benjamin Robbins Curtis
    American attorney (1809 - 1874)
    - +
     0
  • Abdul Qadeer Khan No money on earth can buy the love and affection that has been given to me by a grateful nation.
    Abdul Qadeer Khan
    Pakistani nuclear physicist (1936 - )
    - +
     0
  • Benjamin Robbins Curtis No nation can answer for the equity of proceedings in all its inferior courts. It suffices to provide a supreme judicature by which error and partiality may be corrected.
    Benjamin Robbins Curtis
    American attorney (1809 - 1874)
    - +
     0
  • Kofi Annan No nation can make itself secure by seeking supremacy over all others. We all share responsibility for each other's security, and only by working to make each other secure can we hope to achieve lasting security for ourselves.
    (2006)
    Kofi Annan
    Ghanaian diplomat (1938 - 2018)
    - +
     0
  • Calvin Coolidge No nation ever had an army large enough to guarantee it against attack in time of peace or insure it victory in time of war.
    Calvin Coolidge
    American president (1872 - 1933)
    - +
     0
  • Calvin Coolidge No nation ever had an army large enough to guarantee it against attack in time of peace, or ensure it of victory in time of war.
    The quotable Calvin Coolidge: sensible words for a new century (2001)
    Calvin Coolidge
    American president (1872 - 1933)
    - +
     0
  • Rush Limbaugh No nation ever taxed itself into prosperity.
    Rush Limbaugh
    American radio talk show host (1951 - 2021)
    - +
     0
  • Benjamin Franklin No nation was ever ruined by trade.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
    - +
     0
All nation-states famous quotes and sayings you will always find on greatest-quotations.com (page 15)