Nation Quotes

The purpose of the United Nations should be to protect the essential sovereignty of nations, large and small.

It has happened before. Strong men put up a city and got a nation together, And paid singers to sing and women to warble: “We are the greatest city, the greatest nation, nothing like us ever was.”

The great nations have always acted like gangsters, and the small nations like prostitutes.

What is nationalism? It is an ignoble patriotism.

As nations improve, so do their gods.

Outside the kingdom of the Lord there is no nation that is greater than any other. God and history will remember your judgment.

The direct use of physical force is so poor a solution to the problem of limited resources that it is commonly employed only by small children and great nations.

Nations like individuals are subjected to punishments and chastisements in this world.

A nation that cannot preserve itself ought to die, and it will die – die in the grasp of the evils it is too feeble to overthrow.

Territory is but the body of a nation. The people who inhabit its hills and valleys are its soul, its spirit, its life.