Nation Quotes
I see a lot of patterns in our behavior as a nation that parallel a lot of other historical processes.
That until there are no longer first-class and second-class citizens of any nation. Until the colour of a man's skin is of no more significance than the colour of his eyes. Me say war.
We did some massive flirting in front of the nation, but there was never anything more than that.
There is no more debilitating, crushing, self-defeating, sickening thing in the world - to an individual or to a nation.
As man advances in civilization, and small tribes are united into larger communities, the simplest reason would tell each individual that he ought to extend his social instincts and sympathies to all members of the same nation, though personally unknown to him. This point being once reached, there is only an artificial barrier to prevent his sympathies extending to the men of all nations and races.
The nation is divided, half patriots and half traitors, and no man can tell which from which.
We don't bother much about dress and manners in England, because as a nation we don't dress well and we've no manners.
The nation's morals are like its teeth: the more decayed they are the more it hurts to touch them.
Vulgarity in a king flatters the majority of the nation.
When two nations are fighting, the duty of a votary of ahimsa is to stop the war.
I hold that the more helpless a creature the more entitled it is to protection by man from the cruelty of humankind.
What makes a nation in the beginning is a good piece of geography.
The battle beginning today will decide the fate of the German nation for the next thousand years.
The doom of a nation can be averted only by a storm of flowing passion, but only those who are passionate themselves can arouse passion in others.
It is the press, above all, which wages a positively fanatical and slanderous struggle, tearing down everything which can be regarded as a support of national independence, cultural elevation, and the economic independence of the nation.
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