Nations Quotes - Page 14

Nature makes us poor only when we want necessaries, but custom gives the name of poverty to the want of superfluities.

It is now time for our nation to frustrate the wild dreams of the whites.

In the United Nations, when China entered, we voted on the same position, and since then we have maintained the same position, that position has not changed.

No nation ever taxed itself into prosperity.

You have to learn how to stay in a good mood as you overthrow the sour, puckered hallucination that is mistakenly referred to as reality.

A nation that can't remember its dead will soon cease to be worth dying for.

To get an Emmy nomination for a show that was the first-ever science talk show on television to us was an affirmation that there is an appetite for this content in the mainstream public, not just the erudite public. So we're all completely thrilled by it.

The advance and perfecting of mathematics are closely joined to the prosperity of the nation.

There is nothing so extreme that is not allowed by the custom of some nation or other.

H. L. Mencken suffers from the hallucination that he is H. L. Mencken - there is no cure for a disease of that magnitude.

Between the two, the nationalist and the imperialist, there is no meeting ground.

Nonviolent nationalism is a necessary condition of corporate or civilized life.

This [Judge Samuel Alito] may be one of the most significant or consequential nominations that the Senate will vote on since I've been here in the last three decades.

New York Mayor Bill de Blasio has been positioning himself to challenge Hillary Clinton for the Democratic nomination. Hillary once developed a program to deliver rural healthcare, while de Blasio once dropped a groundhog on its head.

As it is with an individual, so it is with a nation. One must produce to have, or one will become a have-not.

In order for the U.N. to be effective, there must be consequences if people thumb their nose at the United Nations Security Council. And we will work with people on the Security Council to achieve that objective.

Thus we have at least a national song that unites all Germans, and is the symbol of our sixty-million nation.

I care not who makes th' laws iv a nation, if I can get out an injunction.

Friends are nations in themselves.

At the United Nations, a lynch mob for Israel is always just a moment away.

If people get together, so eventually will nations.

We are a debtor nation, and we owe now $19 trillion and it's going to go up very fast by the way from this point.

As a nation, we have never embraced aging.

the distinction between rich nations and poor nations is one of the great dominant political and international themes of our century.

The nationalist has a broad hatred and a narrow love.