Quotes about Nations
England and America are two countries separated by the same language.
- George Bernard Shaw
From hence, let fierce contending nations know, what dire effects from civil discord flow.
- Joseph Addison
If wars in the future are to be prevented the nations must be united in their determination to keep the peace under law.
- Harry S. Truman
Nations like the Cuban and the Swiss Can never hope to wage a Global Mission. No Holy Wars for them. The most the small Can ever give us is a nuisance brawl.
- Robert Frost
Nations with nations mix'd confus'dly die, and lost in one promiscuous carnage lie.
- Joseph Addison
That there are men in all countries who get their living by war, and by keeping up the quarrels of Nations is as shocking as it is true...
- Thomas Paine
Education is the cheap defense of nations.
- Edmund Burke
Christ had given the apostles a world-wide commission, embracing all the nations; but intellectually they did not understand what He meant. They found that out as they followed the impulse of the Spirit.
- Roland Allen
It is only barbarous nations who have a sudden growth after a victory
- Victor Hugo
I remind myself that madmen really exist. Sometimes they achieve the highest levels of political power in modern industrial nations.
- Carl Sagan
If the United States wants safety, it has to take care of the safety of other nations also. If Great Britain wants safety, it has to think of the safety of other groups of people. Any of us could be victims of violence and terrorism. No country is immune.
- Thich Nhat Hanh
Knowingly or unknowingly, humanity waits in its suffering, sorrow, and sin, in its baptism of tears and blood, - for what? For the King. Parties are leaderless, and nations are all at unrest. "Broken lies creation, Shaken earth's foundation, Anchorless each nation: Lord, come away!
- G Campbell Morgan