Nation Quotes

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)

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.”

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.

Cannon, n. An instrument employed in the rectification of national boundaries.