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They are all so-called Christian nations, but... this superimposed religion... does not penetrate into the core of their souls. It has no relation to their daily experience... It is a key to open a heaven after death and not a key with which to force open the portals of this life.
Isaac Leib Peretz
One hundred nations in the UN have not agreed with us on just about everything that's come before them, where we're involved, and it didn't upset my breakfast at all.
Ronald Reagan
Commerce with all nations, alliance with none, should be our motto.
Thomas Jefferson
As a nation, we must choose between the sanctity of life ethic and the quality of life ethic. I have no trouble identifying the answer our nation has always given to this basic question, and the answer that I hope and pray it will give in the future.
The decline of literature indicates the decline of a nation.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
As a lover of truth, the national propaganda of all the belligerent nations sickened me. As a lover of civilization, the return to barbarism appalled me.
Bertrand Russell
Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding. You cannot subjugate a nation forcibly unless you wipe out every man, woman, and child. Unless you wish to use such drastic measures, you must find a way of settling your disputes without resort to arms.
Albert Einstein
In a stupid nation the man of genius becomes a god: everybody worships him and nobody does his will.
George Bernard Shaw
We will walk on our own feet; we will work with our own hands; we will speak our own minds...A nation of men will for the first time exist, because each believes himself inspired by the Divine Soul which also inspires all men.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations.
Henry David Thoreau
It is only barbarous nations who have a sudden growth after a victory
Victor Hugo
A nation as a society forms a moral person, and every member of it is personally responsible for his society
You and I, as individuals, can, by borrowing, live beyond our means, but for only a limited period of time. Why, then, should we think that collectively, as a nation, we're not bound by that same limitation? We must act today in order to preserve tomorrow.
His death has eclipsed the gaiety of nations, and impoverished the public stock of harmless pleasure.
Samuel Johnson
May the conscience and the common sense of the peoples be awakened, so that we may reach a new stage in the life of nations, where people will look back on war as an incomprehensible aberration of their forefathers!
None but an armed nation can dispense with a standing army. To keep ours armed and disciplined is therefore at all times important.
No nation was ever so virtuous as each believes itself, and none was ever so wicked as each believes the other.
Blest is that nation whose silent course of happiness furnishes nothing for history to say.
A nation's culture resides in the hearts and in the soul of its people.
Mahatma Gandhi
In a republican nation, whose citizens are to be led by reason and persuasion and not by force, the art of reasoning becomes of first importance
