There is no longer praise for Moab; in Heshbon they devise evil against her: ‘Come, let us cut her off from nationhood.’ You too, O people of Madmen, will be silenced; the sword will pursue you.
- Jeremiah 48:2
The Iraqis have become invested in their nationhood.
- Joe Biden
Human rights is the soul of our foreign policy, because human rights is the very soul of our sense of nationhood.