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Democratic nations must try to find ways to starve the terrorist and the hijacker of the oxygen of publicity on which they depend.

Margaret Thatcher

In all nations an exceptional man exists that compensates the deficiencies of the remainder. In those moments, when humanity is found collectively in a state of decadence, there always remain those exceptional beings as point of reference.

Augusto Roa Bastos

A national debt, if it is not excessive, will be to us a national blessing.

Alexander Hamilton

A nation may lose its liberties in a day and not miss them in a century.

Charles de Montesquieu

Men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all the other alternatives.

Abba Eban

In a republican nation, whose citizens are to be led by reason and persuasion and not by force, the art of reasoning becomes of first importance

Thomas Jefferson

No modern nation has ever constructed a foreign policy that was acceptable to its intellectuals

Irving Kristol

I made efforts to swallow tears and to protect the species of the Japanese nation.

Hirohito

He who controls the money supply of a nation controls the nation

James A. Garfield

There is no calamity which a great nation can invite which equals that which follows a supine submission to wrong and injustice

Grover Cleveland

[America is] a rebellious nation. Our whole history is treason; our blood was attained before we were born; our creeds were infidelity to the mother church; our constitution treason to our fatherland.

Theodore Parker

So that this nation may long endure, I urge you to follow in the hallowed footsteps of the great disobedience of history that freed exiles, founded religions, defeated tyrants, and yes, in the hands of an aroused rabble in arms and a few great men,

Charlton Heston

All through history it's the nations that have given most to generals and the least to the people that have been the first to fall

Harry S Truman

The destiny of any nation at any given time depends on the opinions of its young men under five-and-twenty

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

There is nothing that strengthens a nation like reading of a nation's own history, whether that history is recorded in books or embodied in customs, institutions and monuments

Joseph Anderson

The nation which reposes on the pillow of political confidence, will sooner or later end its political existence in a deadly lethargy

James Madison

The laws of a nation form the most instructive portion of its history

Edward Biggon

A strong nation, like a strong person, can afford to be gentle, firm, thoughtful, and restrained. It can afford to extend a helping hand to others. It's a weak nation, like a weak person, that must behave with bluster and boasting and rashness and other signs of insecurity.

Jimmy Carter

Great nations write their autobiographies in three manuscripts -- the book of their deeds, the book of their words and the book of their art.

John Ruskin

Any nation that can survive what we have lately in the way of government, is on the high road to permanent glory.

Molly Ivins

From hence, let fierce contending nations know, What dire effects from civil discord flow

Joseph Addison

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

Franklin D. Roosevelt

No nation has ever failed to prosper when its people put God first and their country second

Harold Lindsell

A nation is a society united by a delusion about its ancestry and by common hatred of its neighbours.

W. R. Inge

[Here] rests the soul of our nation-here also should be our conscience.

Caspar W. Weinberger

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