Commerce with all nations, alliance with none, should be our motto.
Thomas Jefferson

An association of men who will not quarrel with one another is a thing which has never yet existed, from the greatest confederacy of nations down to a town meeting or a vestry.
Thomas Jefferson

Money, not morality, is the principle commerce of civilized nations.
Thomas Jefferson

Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations; entangling alliances with none.
Thomas Jefferson

We are asking the nations of Europe between whom rivers of blood have flowed to forget the feuds of a thousand years.
Winston Churchill

Risk is a part of God's game, alike for men and nations.
Warren Buffett

Just as a man would not cherish living in a body other than his own, so do nations not like to live under other nations, however noble and great the latter may be.
Mohandas Gandhi

Wars of nations are fought to change maps. But wars of poverty are fought to map change.
Muhammad Ali

Insanity in individuals is something rare - but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Madness is rare in individuals - but in groups, parties, nations, and ages it is the rule.
Friedrich Nietzsche

In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.
Friedrich Nietzsche

A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on.
John F. Kennedy

We cannot expect that all nations will adopt like systems, for conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.
John F. Kennedy

Character, in the long run, is the decisive factor in the life of an individual and of nations alike.
Theodore Roosevelt

Observe good faith and justice toward all nations. Cultivate peace and harmony with all.
George Washington

Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations.
Henry David Thoreau

If they want peace, nations should avoid the pin-pricks that precede cannon shots.
Napoleon Bonaparte

Each nation feels superior to other nations. That breeds patriotism - and wars.
Dale Carnegie

The Hebrews have done more to civilize men than any other nation. If I were an atheist, and believed blind eternal fate, I should still believe that fate had ordained the Jews to be the most essential instrument for civilizing the nations.
John Adams

To establish any mode to abolish war, however advantageous it might be to Nations, would be to take from such Government the most lucrative of its branches.
Thomas Paine