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Every nation ridicules other nations -- and all are right. – Arthur Schopenhauer	added by anonymous 13 years ago
God grant that not only the love of liberty but a thorough knowledge of the rights of man may pervade all the nations of the earth, so that a philosopher may set his foot anywhere on its surface and say: "This is my country." – Benjamin Franklin, letter to David Hartley, December 4, 1789	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Compromise, if not the spice of life, is its solidity. It is what makes nations great and marriages happy. – Phyllis McGinley	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Science is the search for truth - it is not a game in which one tries to beat his opponent, to do harm to others. We need to have the spirit of science in international affairs, to make the conduct of international affairs the effort to find t he right solution, the just solution of international problems, not the effort by each nation to get the better of other nations, to do harm to them when it is possible. – Linus Pauling, No More War!	added by anonymous 13 years ago
The true and solid peace of nations consists not in equality of arms, but in mutual trust alone. – Pope John XXIII	added by anonymous 13 years ago
A love for tradition has never weakened a nation, indeed it has strengthened nations in their hour of peril. – Sir Winston Churchill	added by anonymous 13 years ago
If nations could overcome the mutual fear and distrust whose somber shadow is now thrown over the world, and could meet with confidence and good will to settle their possible differences, they would easily be able to establish a lasting peace. – Fridjof Nansen	added by anonymous 13 years ago
The great nations have always acted like gangsters, and the small nations like prostitutes. – Stanley Kubrick	added by anonymous 14 years ago
The health of nations is more important than the wealth of nations. – Will Durant	added by anonymous 14 years ago
America is not merely a nation but a nation of nations. – Lyndon B. Johnson	added by anonymous 14 years ago
All men love peace in their armchairs after dinner but they disbelieve the other nations's professions, rightly measuring its sincerity by their own. – Oscar W. Firkins	added by anonymous 14 years ago
A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on. – John Fitzgerald Kennedy	added by anonymous 14 years ago
A love of tradition has never weakened a nation, indeed it has strengthened nations in their hour of peril but the new view must come, the world must roll forward. – Winston Churchill	added by anonymous 14 years ago
You despise books you whose lives are absorbed in the vanities of ambition, the pursuit of pleasure or indolence but remember that all the known world, excepting only savage nations, is governed by books. – Voltaire	added by anonymous 14 years ago
I am always sorry when any language is lost, because languages are the pedigrees of nations. – Samuel Johnson	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations entangling alliances with none. – Thomas Jefferson	added by anonymous 14 years ago
An association of men who will not quarrel with one another is a thing which has never yet existed, from the greatest confederacy of nations down to a town meeting or a vestry. – Thomas Jefferson	added by anonymous 14 years ago
As Mankind becomes more liberal, they will be more apt to allow that all those who conduct themselves as worthy members of the community are equally entitled to the protections of civil government. I hope ever to see America among the foremost nations of justice and liberality. – George Washington	added by anonymous 14 years ago
And He shall judge among the nations, and shall rebuke many people and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more. – Isaiah	added by anonymous 14 years ago
As long as there are sovereign nations possessing great power, war is inevitable. – Albert Einstein	added by anonymous 14 years ago
As long as Nazi violence was unleashed only, or mainly, against the Jews, the rest of the world looked on passively and even treaties and agreements were made with the patently criminal government of the Third Reich.... The doors of Palestine were closed to Jewish immigrants, and no country could be found that would admit those forsaken people. They were left to perish like their brothers and sisters in the occupied countries. We shall never forget the heroic efforts of the small countries, of the Scandinavian, the Dutch, the Swiss nations, and of individuals in the occupied part of Europe who did all in their power to protect Jewish lives. – Albert Einstein	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Though there are very many nations all over the earth, ...there are no more than two kinds of human society, which we may justly call two cities, ...one consisting of those who live according to man, the other of those who live according to God ....To the City of Man belong the enemies of God, ...so inflamed with hatred against the City of God. – Saint Augustine	added by anonymous 14 years ago
One of the most basic principles for making and keeping peace within and between nations. . . is that in political, military, moral, and spiritual confrontations, there should be an honest attempt at the reconciliation of differences before resorting to combat. – James Earl Jimmy Carter, Jr.	added by anonymous 14 years ago
History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives. – Abba Eban	added by anonymous 14 years ago

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