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Obamacare is going to destroy everything we know as a nation. — Paul Broun

Control oil and you control nations; control food and you control the people. — Henry A. Kissinger

One day nations will go to war over clouds. — Niko Stoifberg

No nation has ever been ruined by trade. — Benjamin Franklin

Nations are possessed with an insane ambition to perpetuate the memory of themselves by the amount of hammered stone they leave. — Henry David Thoreau

History is the memory of a nation — Thomas Sowell

When you marry into a Mormon family you marry tribes and nations. — Wallace Stegner

Fun fact: The United Nations building in New York City is the only place in all of North America where smoking is still permitted indoors. — Douglas Coupland

A growing nation is the greatest ponzi game ever contrived. — Paul Samuelson

America seems to be at once the most religious and the most secular of all nations. — Will Herberg

Nations have the wrong granularity. They're too small to be global and too big to be local, and all they can think about is competing. — Nicholas Negroponte

A defeated nation is always explaining itself. That's why the best storytellers are always from vanquished nations. — Mark Richard

If we are to be one Nation in any respect, it clearly ought to be in respect to other Nations. — James Madison

To get nations back on their feet, we must first get down on our knees. — Billy Graham

I have never liked France or the French, and I have never stopped saying so. (15th February 1945) — Adolf Hitler

Men in a state of nature, uncivilized nations, children, have a great fondness for colors in their utmost brightness, and especially for yellow-red. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Wine takes away reason, engenders insanity, leads to thousands of crimes, and imposes such an enormous expense on nations. — Pliny The Elder

The Age of Nations is past. The task before us now, if we would not perish, is to build the Earth. — Pierre Teilhard De Chardin

Nations that went down fighting rose again, but those who surrendered tamely were finished. — Winston S. Churchill

If you educate a girl, you educate a nation. — Helene D. Gayle

Charm of personality is a divine gift that sways the strongest characters and sometimes even controls the destinies of nations. — Orison Swett Marden

It doesn't take the most powerful nations on Earth to create the next global conflict. Just the will of a single man. — Vladimir Makarov

History is constantly repeating itself, making only such changes of programme as the growth of nations and centuries requires. — James A. Garfield

The magnifying of Christ in the white-hot worship of all nations is the reason the world exists. — John Piper

The tide of evolution carries everything before it, thoughts no less than bodies, and persons no less than nations. — George Santayana

The direct use of force is such a poor solution to any problem, it is generally employed only by small children and large nations. — David M. Friedman

Binding emissions targets for the developing nations are out of the question. — Eileen Claussen

Live as temporal, serve as eternal — John Paul Warren

Developing nations want to become developed nations. — A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

Patriotism is a word which represents a noble idea. — Napoleon Bonaparte

O Music! Miraculous art! A blast of thy trumpet and millions rush forward to die; a peal of thy organ and uncounted nations sink down to pray. — Benjamin Disraeli

History teaches that nations do not learn from history. — Bruce Fein

The Bible is the only force known to history that has freed enitre nations from corruption while simultaneously giving them political freedom. — Vishal Mangalwadi

Redeeming sinners from all nations through Jesus Christ was God's plan from the beginning. — Colin S. Smith

Whenever we forgive, in small ways at home, or in great ways between nations, we free ourselves from the past. — Jack Kornfield

The nation looked upon him as a deserter, and he shrunk into insignificancy and an earldom. — Lord Chesterfield

Nuclear wars are simply too dangerous to fight, so it is economic might that will largely determine the destiny of nations. — Anonymous

The recognition by a people that their prosperity depends on the breadth and depth of their innovative activity is of huge importance. Nations unaware — Edmund S. Phelps

If a nation blames other nations for their problems, most likely the citizens of the nations will do the same thing. — Debasish Mridha

We are a nation of faith, and we are stewards of God's world. — Mike Huckabee

It requires philosophy and heroism to rise above the opinion of the wise men of all nations and races. — Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Does anyone seriously contend that any nation can fend for itself? — Kofi Annan

National education to be truly national must reflect the national condition for the time being. — Mahatma Gandhi

No nation can be destroyed while it possesses a good home life. — J.G. Holland

The only way to achieve a practical, livable peace in a world of competing nations is to take the profit out of war. — Richard M. Nixon

It is only barbarous nations who have a sudden growth after a victory — Victor Hugo

A sense of entitlement is a cancerous thought process that is void of gratitude and can be deadly to our relationships. — Steve Maraboli

Modern wars are seldom fought without hatred between nations; this serves more or less as a substitute for hatred between individuals. — Carl Von Clausewitz

Esau has always been at war with Jacob. The struggle that began in their mother's womb between two natured peoples (or nations) continues today. — Jerry Hannah

Liberty and equality are magical words. — Napoleon Bonaparte

People are like nations-if you help them a lot, they hate you. — Laura Schlessinger

Among the other enthusiastic dumpers were Russia, China, Japan and nearly all the nations of Europe. — Bill Bryson

From the paths of blood (and such is the history of nations) I cannot refuse to turn aside to gather some flowers of science or virtue. — Edward Gibbon

The European nations' loss of sovereignty to the EU should be a warning to Americans. — Phyllis Schlafly

The greater ignorance towards a country is not ignoring what its politicians have to say, it is ignoring what the inmates in its prisons have to say. — Criss Jami

Better one suffer than a nation grieve. — John Dryden

Unless there comes to the Nation a greater emancipation than Lincoln's Proclamation effected, it is doomed, it is bound to go down. — Francis James Grimke

Someday, I hope that we will all be patriots of our planet and not just of our respective nations. — Zoe Weil

People aren't happy unless they buy stuff, and that's because we have become this industrialized nation. — Glenn Beck

When we liberate the economic potential of women, we elevate the economic performance of communities, nations, and the world. — Hillary Clinton

War is America's central liturgical act necessary to renew our sense that we are a nation unlike other nations. — Stanley Hauerwas

Architecture is the work of nations — John Ruskin

Vanity and pride of nations; vanity is as advantageous to a government as pride is dangerous. — Baron De Montesquieu

By the laws of God, of nature, of nations, and of your country you are and ought to be as free a people as your brethren in England. — Jonathan Swift

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

Japan is not a Western democracy. The Japanese have kept their traditions, culture and heritage, but they have joined the community of free nations. — Natan Sharansky

The difference of language, dress, and manners ... severs and alienates the nations of the globe. — Edward Gibbon

But 'tis the talent of our English nation, Still to be plotting some new reformation. — John Dryden

Lack of consistency is a weakness shared by all nations. — Tariq Ramadan

The Middle Eastern states aren't nations; they're quarrels with borders. — P. J. O'Rourke

In the religion of all nations a purity is hinted at, which, I fear, men never attain to. — Henry David Thoreau

The central drama of our age is how the Western nations and the Asian peoples are to find a tolerable basis of co-existence. — Walter Lippmann

Music is the language of the soul; and for two people of different nations or races to unite, there is no better means than music — Hazrat Inayat Khan

A nation may be ever so civilized and yet lack wisdom. — Henry David Thoreau

God does not seek to destroy the evil nations, but their evil. — Sholem Asch

Nothing is so retentive as a nation's memory. — Joseph A. Schumpeter

In spite of all temptations of belonging to many nations, I've remained an Indian. — Vikram Seth

The revolution in global communications thus forces all nations to reconsider traditional ways of thinking about national sovereignty. — George Shultz

The unattractive thing about chauvinism is not so much the aversion to other nations as the love of one's own. — Karl Kraus

The cross has two sides to it. One side is what Jesus did for us. He forgave us our sins. The other is the God side. God now lives in man! — John Paul Warren

When in all the nations of the world the rule of law is the darling of the leaders and the plague of the people, we ought to begin to recognize this. — Howard Zinn

The United Nations should become a proactive agent in the dissemination of democratic principles. — Michelle Bachelet

We remember childhood as the fabulous years of our lives, and nations remember their childhood as fabulous years. — Giacomo Leopardi

God loves me so that I might make him - his ways, his salvation, his glory, and his greatness - known among all nations. — David Platt

Lack of rule of law is the main reason Pakistan could not join the ranks of progressive nations. — Imran Khan

Nations are built overtime.
Nations are destroyed overnight. — Matshona Dhliwayo

Of the 22 industrialized nations of the world, we're dead last in per capita giving to poor people. — Tony Campolo

A nation that sends its women to fight its wars is not worth defending. — Pat Buchanan

Since I became Secretary-General, five years ago, I have seen youth participate at the United Nations as never before. — Ban Ki-moon

Corporations do a lot of things well, but not run nations, for obvious reasons. — Michael Ian Black

Kindness is the light that dissolves all walls between souls, families, and nations. — Paramahansa Yogananda

A statesman is a politician who places himself at the service of the nation. A politician is a statesman who places the nation at his service. — Georges Pompidou

Islam is under obligation to gain power over all nations. — Ibn Khaldun

I am convinced that these ojects do exist and that they are not manufactured by any nations on earth — Hugh Dowding, 1st Baron Dowding

May your footsteps leave only friends behind. — Frederic M. Perrin

We are living in the falsehood due to the erroneous teachings of the society, community and the bordered nations. — Vishal Chipkar

Tyrannies are overthrown by ideas. Armies are defeated by ideas. Nations, and Time itself, are overmatched by ideas. — Henry Ward Beecher

I define my life not by the things I have done, but by the people I have loved. — John Paul Warren

Make disciples of all the nations in my Name. — Eusebius

I want co-operation between nations for the salvaging of civilization, but co-operation presupposes free nations worthy of co-operation. — Mahatma Gandhi