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Every nation sincerely desires peace; and all nations pursue courses which if persisted in, must make peace impossible

Norman Angell

A nation is a totality of men united through community of fate into a community of character

Otto Bauer

There was never a nation great until it came to the knowledge that it had nowhere in the world to go for help

Charles Dudley Warner

In every particular state of the world, those nations which are strongest tend to prevail over the others; and in certain marked peculiarities the strongest tend to be the best.

Walter Bagehot

Nations, like men, have their infancy.

Henry Bolingbroke

Nations have always good reasons for being what they are, and the best of all is that they cannot be otherwise.

Marquis De Custine

Men may be linked in friendship. Nations are linked only by interests.

Rolf Hochhuth

The history of any nation follows an undulatory course. In the trough of the wave we find more or less complete anarchy; but the crest is not more or less complete Utopia, but only, at best, a tolerably humane, partially free and fairly just society that invariably carries within itself the seeds of its own decadence.

Aldous Huxley

A nation is the same people living in the same place.

James Joyce

Most nations, as well as people are impossible only in their youth; they become incorrigible as they grow older.

Jean Jacques Rousseau

The strength of a nation, especially of a republican nation, is in the intelligent and well ordered homes of the people.

Lydia Sigourney

Poor nations are hungry, and rich nations are proud; and pride and hunger will ever be at variance.

Jonathan Swift

Nations do not think, they only feel. They get their feelings at second hand through their temperaments, not their brains. A nation can be brought -- by force of circumstances, not argument -- to reconcile itself to any kind of government or religion that can be devised; in time it will fit itself to the required conditions; later it will prefer them and will fiercely fight for them.

Mark Twain

There was never a nation that became great until it came to the knowledge that it had nowhere in the world to go for help.

Charles Dudley Warner

Small nations are like indecently dressed women. They tempt the evil-minded.

Julius K. Nyerere

One of the most basic principles for making and keeping peace within and between nations. . . is that in political, military, moral, and spiritual confrontations, there should be an honest attempt at the reconciliation of differences before resorting

Jimmy Carter

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

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