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Nation shall speak peace unto nation (Motto of BBC)
View quotes by John Montague Rendall

Iraq is not the only nation in the world to possess weapons of mass destruction, but it is the only nation with a leader who has used them against his own people.
View quotes by Tom Daschle

I never use the word 'nation' in speaking of the United States. I always use the word 'Union' or 'Confederacy.' We are not a nation but a union, a confederacy of equal and sovereign States.
View quotes by John Calhoun

Maybe Napoleon was wrong when he said we were a nation of shopkeepers... Today England looked like a nation of goalkeepers.
View quotes by Tom Stoppard

If a nation loses its storytellers, it loses its childhood.
View quotes by Peter Handke

"I am always fascinated when people talk about 'the forging of a nation'. Most nations are forgeries, perpetrated in the last century or so."
View quotes by Neal Ascherson

Or what Mr. O' Bannon, are you going to kick my ass? I've read all about your ridiculous escapades. So, how does it feel to kill a Mummy with your bare hands? Only a nation of uneducated rednecks would believe such cowboy drivel.
View quotes by Aiden Gillen

The United States is a nation of laws, badly written and randomly enforced.
View quotes by Frank Zappa

Praise the green earth. Chance has appointed her home, workshop, larder, middenpit. Her lousy skin scabbed here and there by cities provides us with name and nation.
View quotes by Basil Bunting

The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated.
View quotes by Mahatma Gandhi

Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the act of depriving a whole nation of arms, as the blackest. ('Gandhi, An Autobiography')
View quotes by Mahatma Gandhi

Government is merely an attempt to express the conscience of everybody, the average conscience of the nation, in the rules that everybody is commanded to obey. That is all it is.
View quotes by Woodrow Wilson

We must have a citizenship less concerned about what the government can do for it and more anxious about what it can do for the nation.
View quotes by Warren Harding

If we have to use force, it is because we are America. We are the indispensable nation. We stand tall. We see further into the future.
View quotes by Madeleine Albright

To win in Vietnam, we will have to exterminate a nation
View quotes by Benjamin Spock

Cricket civilises people and creates good gentlemen. I want everyone to play cricket in Zimbabwe; I want ours to be a nation of gentlemen
View quotes by Robert Mugabe

No-one can terrorise a whole nation, unless we are all his accomplices
View quotes by Ed Murrow

As it is for the good of all and the general happiness of the nation, I am ready and willing. Tell the people I'm staying.
View quotes by Pedro I

It is beginning to be hinted that we are a nation of amateurs. (Rectorial address at Glasgow University, 1900)
View quotes by Lord Rosebery

Now, I say to you today my friends, even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream. I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: - 'We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal.'
View quotes by Martin Luther King



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