A nation, like a person, has a mind – a mind that must be kept informed and alert, that must know itself, that understands the hopes and needs of its neighbors – all the other nations that live within the narrowing circle of the world.
Nation Quotes
The nation’s honor is dearer than the nation’s comfort; yes, than the nation’s life itself.
Nations are equal in respect to each other, and entitled to claim equal consideration for their rights, whatever may be their relative dimensions or strength or however greatly they may differ in government, religion or manners.
When a nation goes down, or a society perishes, one condition may always be found; they forgot where they came from. They lost sight of what had brought them along.
Ye shall utterly destroy all the places, wherein the nations which ye shall possess served their gods, upon the high mountains, and upon the hills, and under every green tree. (Deuteronomy 12:2)
A mob is the scum that rises up most when the nation boils.
I have never known a man, of any nationality, to live so long out of his native country without seeming to settle anywhere else. (Ezra Pound)
A nation never falls but by suicide.
In any country there must be people who have to die. They are the sacrifices any nation has to make to achieve law and order.
A nation is a totality of men united through community of fate into a community of character.
