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Nations Quotes - Page 9

I thought that the United Nations is a creature of the five super-powers who were given veto powers. I don't like veto powers at all.

"Interview with Tun Dr Mahathir bin Mohamad". Interview with Sue Onslow, commonwealth-oral-history-project.blogs.sas.ac.uk. February 11, 2015.

Henceforth the leaves of the tree of knowledge were for women, and for the healing of the nations.

"The Progress of Fifty Years". Speech at the Congress of Women at the Woman's Building of the World's Columbian Exposition (World's Fair), Chicago, Illinois, digital.library.upenn.edu. 1893.

Nothing is so retentive as a nation's memory.

Joseph A. Schumpeter (2013). “Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy”, p.100, Routledge

Straying off course is not recognized as a capital crime by civilized nations.

Jeane Kirkpatrick's speech to the U.N. Security Council, www.upi.com. September 6, 1983.

Nations have their ego, just like individuals.

James Joyce (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of James Joyce (Illustrated)”, p.2268, Delphi Classics

The question before the advanced nations is not whether they can afford to help the developing nations, but whether they can afford not to do so.

Indira Gandhi, Indira Gandhi Abhinandan Samiti (1975). “The Spirit of India: volumes presented to Shrimati Indira Gandhi by the Indira Gandhi Abhinandan Samiti”

A nation of shopkeepers are very seldom so disinterested.

'Oration in Philadelphia' 1 August 1776 (the authenticity of this publication is doubtful).

I will be the president of the nation who keeps pledges.

"Park Geun-hye claims South Korea presidential victory" by Madison Park, Paula Hancocks, KJ Kwon, www.cnn.com. December 19, 2012.