The slightest acquaintance with history shows that powerful republics are the most warlike and unscrupulous of nations.
Ambrose Bierce

Most nations, as well as people are impossible only in their youth; they become incorrigible as they grow older.
Jean Jacques Rousseau

Nations, like individuals, are punished for their transgressions.
Ulysses S. Grant

For my name and memory I leave to men's charitable speeches, and to foreign nations and the next ages.
Francis Bacon

Nations, like stars, are entitled to eclipse. All is well, provided the light returns and the eclipse does not become endless night. Dawn and resurrection are synonymous. The reappearance of the light is the same as the survival of the soul.
Victor Hugo

The American taxpayer should not be treated more shabbily than debtors from other nations and we should be encouraging other nations to help rebuild Iraq's economy.
Hillary Clinton

American and Israel share a special bond. Our relationship is unique among all nations. Like America, Israel is a strong democracy, a symbol of freedom, and an oasis of liberty, a home to the oppressed and persecuted.
William J. Clinton

Education is the cheap defense of nations.
Edmund Burke

There is but one law for all, namely that law which governs all law, the law of our Creator, the law of humanity, justice, equity - the law of nature and of nations.
Edmund Burke

The purpose of the United Nations should be to protect the essential sovereignty of nations, large and small.
Nikita Khrushchev

Two nations between whom there is no intercourse and no sympathy; who are as ignorant of each other's habits, thoughts, and feelings, as if they were dwellers in different zones, or inhabitants of different planets. The rich and the poor.
Benjamin Disraeli

Great nations write their autobiographies in three manuscripts - the book of their deeds, the book of their words and the book of their art.
John Ruskin

Nations have their ego, just like individuals.
James Joyce

The happiest women, like the happiest nations, have no history.
George Eliot

Justice, sir, is the great interest of man on earth. It is the ligament which holds civilized beings and civilized nations together.
Daniel Webster

The struggles waged by nations are weak only when they lack support in the hearts of their women.
Jose Marti

Fortunately, there is a sane equilibrium in the character of nations, as there is in that of men.
Jose Marti

Mountains culminate in peaks, and nations in men.
Jose Marti

There can never be peace between nations until there is first known that true peace which is within the souls of men.
Black Elk

Nations it may be have fashioned their Governments, but the Governments have paid them back in the same coin.
Joseph Conrad