Nation after nation, when at the zenith of its power, has proclaimed itself invincible because its army could shake the earth with its tread and its ships could fill the seas, but these nations are dead, and we must build upon a different foundation if we would avoid their fate.

Commerce changes the fate and genius of nations.

Liberty is the hardest test that one can inflict on a people. To know how to be free is not given equally to all men and all nations.

The nation that leads in renewable energy will be the nation that leads the world.

Nations keep agreements, keep their treaties so long as they continue to do them good.

Perfection is a disease of a nation.

The nation that secures control of the air will ultimately control the world.

In many countries today, moral and ethical norms are being reconsidered; national traditions, differences in nation and culture are being erased.

Iraq is a small but very proud nation.

A strong economy is the foundation of a strong nation.

Our nation’s progress depends on our commitment to fairness and equality.

The nature of legislation and the pronunciation of laws are matters of the greatest weight and importance to the community. On these is generally considered to rest the well-being or suffering of nations.

Sin, in short, is that vast moral disease which affects the whole human race, of every rank and class and name and nation and people and tongue, a disease from which there never was but one born of woman that was free. Need I say that One was Christ Jesus the Lord?

In a world shaped and colored more and more by politicians, the nations meet politically, and hardly any other way to settle their differences.

If our nation is ever taken over, it will be taken over from within.

Different nations have different ways of forming their national identity.
In America, for instance, the model was one of homogeneity breaking from different backgrounds, and the whole effort was to blend them all together like a wonderful making of a milkshake!

Indeed, the key to all diplomacy was knowing when they were serious about their threats and when they were posturing. Nations were like individuals, requiring cultivation and the paying of respect.

Even in the United States and in other free nations, some journalists, academics, public officials, and saddest of all young people have developed and promulgated idealized, warped views of tyrannical regimes.

God cannot use men and women who live for self. If the truth is to go to all nations, God’s people must make it their life’s work.

Education has now become the chief problem of the world, its one holy cause. The nations that see this will survive, and those that fail to do so will slowly perish. . . . There must be re-education of the will and of the heart as well as of the intellect; and the ideals of service must supplant those of selfishness and greed.

Education is the cheap defense of nations.

We seek friendly relations with all nations. Any nation can be our friend without being any other nation’s enemy.

Let us remember that the main purpose of American aid is not to help other nations, but to help ourselves.

Led by Communist organizers, mobs roamed the streets shouting “We’re hungry. Steal what you will!” The nation was hopelessly in debt with no way to repay.

No sooner did we arrive on the land than we took some natives and made them quite serviceable as per our needs.

The age of nations has passed. Now, unless we wish to perish, we must shake off our old prejudices and build the Earth. The more scientifically I regard the world, the less can I see any possible biological future for it except in the active consciousness of its unity.

I cannot lead you into battle, I do not give you laws or administer justice but I can do something else, I can give you my heart and my devotion to these old islands and to all the peoples of our brotherhood of nations.

Nations are not ruined by one act of violence.

If they want peace, nations should avoid the pin-pricks that precede cannon-shots.

Nations are born in the hearts of poets, they prosper and die in the hands of politicians.

The nation which forgets its defenders will be itself forgotten

Harmony, liberal intercourse with all nations, are recommended by policy, humanity, and interest.

Democratic nations must try to find ways to starve the terrorist and the hijacker of the oxygen of publicity on which they depend.

Observe good faith and justice towards all nations; cultivate peace and harmony with all.

Families is where our nation finds hope, where wings take dream.

War is the highest form of struggle for resolving contradictions, when they have developed to a certain stage, between classes, nations, states, or political groups, and it has existed ever since the emergence of private property and of classes.

To get nations back on their feet, we must first get down on our knees.

Christ alone can bring lasting peace – peace with God – peace among men and nations – and peace within our hearts.

Only virtuous people are capable of freedom. As nations become corrupt and vicious, they have more need of masters

The corporate State considers that private enterprise in the sphere of production is the most effective and useful instrument in the interest of the nation. In view of the fact that private organisation of production is a function of national concern, the organiser of the enterprise is responsible to the State for the direction given to production.

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.

Wars of nations are fought to change maps. But wars of poverty are fought to map change.