Quotes of Nation - somelinesforyou

“ Will the United Nations serve the purpose of its founding, or it will it be irrelevant? ”

- Saddam Hussein

“ In every community there is work to be done. In every nation, there are wounds to heal. In every heart there is the power to do it. ”

- Marianne Williamson

“ The first requisite of a good citizen in this republic of ours is that he shall be able and willing to pull his own weight. ”

- Theodore Roosevelt

“ A horse! a horse! my kingdom for a horse! ”

- William Shakespeare

“ If the United Nations does not attempt to chart a course for the world's people in the first decades of the new millennium, who will? ”

- Kofi Annan

“ It is easier for a camel to pass through they eye of the needle than for a rich man to enter the Kingdom of God. ”

- Bible

“ Seek ye first the kingdom of heaven, and all else shall be added unto you. ”

- Bible

“ The policy of Russia is changeless. Its methods, its tactics, its manoeuvres may change, but the polar star of its policy, world domination, is a fixed star. ”

- Karl Marx

“ Nations without a past are contradictions in terms. What makes a nation is the past, what justifies one nation against others is the past, and historians are the people who produce it. ”

- E. J. Hobsbawm

“ How can you govern a country with two hundred and forty six varieties of cheese? ”

- Charles de Gaulle

“ The great nations have always acted like gangsters, and the small nations like prostitutes. ”

- Stanley Kubrick

“ No nation is fit to sit in judgement upon any other nation. ”

- Woodrow Wilson

“ Even if I died in the service of the nation, I would be proud of it. Every drop of my blood… will contribute to the growth of this nation and to make it strong and dynamic. ”

- Indira Gandhi

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

- Jonathan Swift

“ If nations always moved from one set of furnished rooms to another — and always into a better set — things might be easier, but the trouble is that there is no one to prepare the new rooms. The future is worse than the ocean — there is nothing there… ”

- Alexander Herzen

“ You can tell the ideals of a nation by its advertisements. ”

- Norman Douglas

“ Citizenship is what makes a republic; monarchies can get along without it. ”

- Mark Twain

“ I think I've been a great citizen. ”

- O. J. Simpson

“ One of the surest signs of the Philistine is his reverence for the superior tastes of those who put him down. ”

- Pauline Kael

“ As ourselves your empires fall, And every kingdom hath a grave. ”

- William Habington

“ Russia is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma. ”

- Winston Churchill

“ The great armies, accumulated to provide security and preserve the peace, carried the nations to war by their own weight. ”

- A. J. P. Taylor

“ The English have a heavy hearted way of amusing themselves. ”

- Unknown

“ Having served its purpose, it will... now fold itself into the broader coordination efforts of the United Nations. ”

- Colin Powell

“ A nation's life is about as long as its reverential memory. ”

- Whittaker Chambers

“ The master minds of all nations, in all ages, have sprung in affluent multitude from the mass of the nation, and from the mass of the nation only — not from its privileged classes. ”

- Mark Twain

“ Cricket civilizes people and creates good gentlemen I want everyone to play cricket in Zimbabwe; I want ours to be a nation of gentlemen. ”

- Robert Mugabe

“ The strength of a nation derives from the integrity of the home. ”

- Confucius

“ We must put together countries that produce drugs, countries that traffic, and countries that consume, and through this multilateral effort really stop the growing of crime. ”

- Vicente Fox

“ Russia has abolished God, but so far God has been tolerant. ”

- John Swayze
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