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Nations Quotes - Page 6

A nation cannot afford to do a mean thing.

Charles Sumner (2016). “The Complete Works of Charles Sumner”, p.5771, Library of Alexandria

This nation is like a spring freshet; it overruns its banks and destroys all who are in its path.

Sitting Bull, Mark Diedrich (1998). “Sitting Bull: The Collected Speeches”

A nation is the sum of its memories, and when those memories are allowed to die, it is less of a nation.

Peter Hitchens (2016). “The Abolition of Britain: From Winston Churchill to Princess Diana”, p.52, Bloomsbury Publishing

We consider that the United Nations' ideal is a Jewish ideal.

"Israel: The Watchman". content.time.com. August 16, 1948.

Lack of awareness of the basic unity of organism and environment is a serious and dangerous hallucination.

Alan W. Watts, Daniel Pinchbeck (2013). “The Joyous Cosmology: Adventures in the Chemistry of Consciousness”, p.112, New World Library

Politics is history in the making.

Adolf Hitler (2013). “Hitler's Second Book: The Unpublished Sequel to Mein Kampf”, p.27, Enigma Books

The right is more precious than peace.

Address to Joint Session of Congress asking for declaration of war, 2 Apr. 1917

Peace renders nations happier and men weaker.

Jean de La Bruyère, Luc de Clapiers marquis de Vauvenargues (1903). “La Bruyère and Vauvenargues: Selections from the Characters, Reflexions and Maxims”

The destiny of nations depends on how they nourish themselves.

Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin (2009). “The Physiology of Taste: or Meditations on Transcendental Gastronomy”, p.15, Vintage

It is nationalism which engenders nations, and not the other way round.

Ernest Gellner, John Breuilly (2008). “Nations and Nationalism”, p.54, Cornell University Press