Quotes about Nations

"Historically, the host nations do well in Euro 2000."
-Trevor Brooking

"No modern nation has ever constructed a foreign policy that was acceptable to its intellectuals."
-Irving Kristol

"United Nations: Where America feeds the hands that bite it."
-Gregory Nunn

"May the United Nations ever be vigilant and potent to defeat the swallowing up of any nation, at any time, by any means-by armies with banners, by force or by fraud, by tricks or by midnight treachery."
-Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr.

"Texas does not, like any other region, simply have indigenous dishes. It proclaims them. It congratulates you, on your arrival, at having escaped from the slop pails of the other 49 states."
-Alistair Cooke

"A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on."
-John F. Kennedy

"A love for tradition has never weakened a nation, indeed it has strengthened nations in their hour of peril."
-Sir Winston Churchill

"In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations, and epochs it is the rule."
-Friedrich Nietzsche

"Insanity in individuals is something rare - but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule."
-Friedrich Nietzsche

"The men who create power make an indispensable contribution to the Nation's greatness, but the men who question power make a contribution just as indispensable, especially when that questioning is disinterested, for they determine whether we use power or power uses us."
-John F. Kennedy

"Education is the cheap defense of nations."
-Edmund Burke

"America is not merely a nation but a nation of nations."
-Lyndon B. Johnson

"Seemingly from the dawn of man all nations have had governments; and all nations have been ashamed of them."
-G. K. Chesterton

"A nation's treasure is in its scholars."
-Chinese Proverb

"The Hebrews have done more to civilize men than any other nation. If I were an atheist, and believed blind eternal fate, I should still believe that fate had ordained the Jews to be the most essential instrument for civilizing the nations."
-John Adams

"Upper classes are a nation's past; the middle class is its future."
-Ayn Rand

"War has become a luxury that only small nations can afford."
-Hannah Arendt

"There might be some changes after the Six Nations and I don't want to be one of them."
-Tom Voyce

"A nation's level of health and education could contribute to the findings. It's conceivable that people in developed countries have more information about sexuality. And they're also healthier. Being better informed, and being in better shape, they may be more able to maintain a satisfying sex life."
-John Delamater

"What we are looking for now is more decisive positions, more decisive actions (by the United Nations ) that hopefully would oblige Israel to go in the right direction."
-Nasser Al kidwa

"I'm just waiting to see if it will happen. I've been disillusioned so many times before. It's 2006, and there's nothing in the nation's capital to show what happened to African-Americans. Nothing."
-John Hope Franklin

"There has been no goodwill from industrialized nations to reach those goals."
-Sergio Leitao

"I confirm my commitment to the points made (in the document), confident that they will help strengthen the ties between our two nations where democracy and peace will flourish."
-Jean bertrand Aristide

"You have written history in a very major way and you have also written a new chapter in the way that nations worked together."
-Ryan Crocker

"This legislation implements appropriate and necessary solutions to many of our nation's immigration problems."
-Duncan Hunter

"Mountains culminate in peaks, and nations in men."
-Jose Marti

"It's not a confrontation between different nations, different cultures or different religions, ... We recommend dialogue between civilizations, coexistence and cooperation."
-Tang Jiaxuan

"We have carefully evaluated our options and decided that -- as one of the nation's leading retail banks -- we will issue credit cards directly."
-Ben Jenkins