Quotes with nations

Quotes 101 till 120 of 179.

  • Evelyn Waugh Other nations use ''force''; we Britons alone use ''Might.''
    Evelyn Waugh
    British novelist (1903 - 1966)
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  • Stephen Decatur Our country! In her intercourse with foreign nations, may she always be in the right; but our country, right or wrong.
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  • Thomas Jefferson Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations; entangling alliances with none.
    Thomas Jefferson
    American statesman (1743 - 1826)
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  • James Baldwin Perhaps the whole root of our trouble, the human trouble, is that we will sacrifice all the beauty of our lives, will imprison ourselves in totems, taboos, crosses, blood sacrifices, steeples, mosques, races, armies, flags, nations, in order to deny the fact of death, which is the only fact we have.
    James Baldwin
    American writer (1924 - 1987)
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  • Jonathan Swift Poor nations are hungry, and rich nations are proud; and pride and hunger will ever be at variance.
    Jonathan Swift
    English writer (1667 - 1745)
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  • Kofi Annan Poverty devastates families, communities and nations. It causes instability and political unrest and fuels conflict.
    Kofi Annan
    Ghanaian diplomat (1938 - 2018)
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  • George Edward Woodberry Risk is a part of God's game, alike for men and nations.
    George Edward Woodberry
    American poet and literary critic (1855 - 1930)
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  • Virgil Roman, remember that you shall rule the nations by your authority, for this is to be your skill, to make peace the custom, to spare the conquered, and to wage war until the haughty are brought low.
    Virgil
    Roman poet (70 - 19)
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  • Bono Sadly, I do my homework. I've a soft spot for the boring minutiae. I read the Charter of the United Nations before meeting with Kofi Annan. I read the Meltzer report, and then I'll read C. Fred Bergsten's defense of institutions like the World Bank and the I.M.F. It's embarrassing to admit.
    Bono
    Irish singer, songwriter, philanthropist, activist and businessman (1960 - )
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Shall we then judge a country by the majority, or by the minority? By the minority, surely. 'Tis pedantry to estimate nations by the census, or by square miles of land, or other than by their importance to the mind of the time.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Walter Bagehot So long as war is the main business of nations, temporary despotism - despotism during the campaign - is indispensable.
    Walter Bagehot
    English economist (1826 - 1877)
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  • Salman Rushdie Such is the miraculous nature of the future of exiles: what is first uttered in the impotence of an overheated apartment becomes the fate of nations.
    Salman Rushdie
    Engels writer (1947 - )
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  • Carlo Azeglio Ciampi The diffusion of a universalist culture and of a pedagogy of peace appears more than ever to be the path that we must follow for the salvation of all nations on earth.
    Carlo Azeglio Ciampi
    Italian politician and banker (1920 - 2016)
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  • Aristide Briand The European organisation contemplated could not oppose any ethnic group, on other continents or in Europe itself, outside of the League of Nations, any more than it could oppose the League of Nations.
    Aristide Briand
    French statesman (1862 - 1932)
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  • Boutros Boutros-Ghali The failure of the United Nations - My failure is maybe, in retrospective, that I was not enough aggressive with the members of the Security Council.
    Boutros Boutros-Ghali
    Egyptian politician and diplomat (1922 - 2016)
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  • Benito Mussolini The fate of nations is intimately bound up with their powers of reproduction. All nations and all empires first felt decadence gnawing at them when their birth rate fell off.
    Benito Mussolini
    Italian journalist, politician and dictator (1883 - 1945)
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  • Arthur Henderson The first condition of success for the League of Nations is, therefore, a firm understanding between the British Empire and the United States of America and France and Italy that there will be no competitive building up of fleets or armies between them.
    Arthur Henderson
    British Labour politician
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  • Kofi Annan The global work of the United Nations is not without reason compared to that of a family - striving for a common goal in concert with all members for a better future.
    Kofi Annan
    Ghanaian diplomat (1938 - 2018)
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  • A. J. P. Taylor The great armies, accumulated to provide security and preserve the peace, carried the nations to war by their own weight.
    A. J. P. Taylor
    British historian (1906 - 1990)
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  • Stanley Kubrick The great nations have always acted like gangsters, and the small nations like prostitutes.
    Stanley Kubrick
    American film director, screenwriter, and producer (1928 - 1999)
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