Peace can only last where human rights are respected, where the people are fed, and where individuals and nations are free.
Dalai Lama
Nations will rise and fall, but equality remains the ideal. The universal aim is to achieve respect for the entire human race, not just for the dominant few.
Carlos P. Romulo
To see the plume of pollution that affected so many nations without being able to do a thing about it was a big wake-up call. But the question now is: what is more important ? the risk around nuclear or the risk around global warming?
Keith Turner
Interest does not tie nations together; it sometimes separates them. But sympathy and understanding does unite them.
Woodrow Wilson
The disease of mutual distrust among nations is the bane of modern civilization.
Franz Boas
Moral and spiritual decay have brought about the demise of more great nations (empires) than any invading enemy force, plague, famine and nature disasters combined
Joseph P. Martino
Mountains interposed Make enemies of nations, who had else Like kindred drops been mingled into one.
William Cowper
Malta's neutrality is a tool that should be treasured and actively used to promote peace and understanding between nations.
Joseph Muscat
Money and not morality is the principle of commerce and commercial nations.
Thomas Jefferson
I am for free commerce with all nations; political connection with none; and little or no diplomatic establishment.
George Washington
It is perhaps common in the world for individuals and nations to suffer for their noble qualities more than for their ignoble ones. For nobility is an occasion for pride, the most treacherous of sentiments.
Daniel Moynihan
One may dislike Hitler's system and yet admire his patriotic achievement. If our country were defeated, I hope we should find a champion as indomitable to restore our courage and lead us back to our place among the nations.
Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill
Nations crumble from within when the citizenry asks of government those things which the citizenry might better provide for itself. ... [I] hope we have once again reminded people that man is not free unless government is limited. There's a clear cause and effect here that is as neat and predictable as a law of physics: As government expands, liberty contracts
Ronald Reagan
We have ancient habits to deal with, vast structures of power, indescribably complicated problems to solve. But unless we abdicate our humanity altogether and succumb to fear and impotence in the presence of the weapons we have ourselves created, it is as possible and as urgent to put an end to war and violence between nations as it is to put an end to poverty and racial injustice
Martin Luther King Jrâ€
An association of men who will not quarrel with one another is a thing which has never yet existed, from the greatest confederacy of nations down to a town meeting or a vestry.
Thomas Jefferson