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

Thomas Jefferson

Money Morality Commerce Principle

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

Politics Man Together Justice

It is time for all civilized nations to stop the horrors that are taking place in Syria and demand a political solution.

Time Political Place Stop

On the day when two army corps may mutually annihilate each other in a second, probably all civilized nations will recoil with horror and disband their troops.

Day Army Will Horror

It is an established principle of jurisprudence in all civilized nations that the sovereign cannot be sued in its own courts, or in any other, without its consent and permission; but it may, if it thinks proper, waive this privilege, and permit itself to be made a defendant in a suit by individuals, or by another State.

Own Privilege Suit Without

The Koran and the laws of all civilized nations legislate against the vilification of religions.

Religions Against Laws Nations

Torture, including practices like waterboarding, violates the legal and moral standards of all civilized nations.

Legal Moral Like Torture

The treatment of women in Muslim communities throughout the world is unconscionable. All civilized nations must unite in condemnation of a theology that now threatens to destabilize much of the Earth.

Women World Earth Now

But while human liberty has engaged the attention of the enlightened, and enlisted the feelings of the generous of all civilized nations, may we not enquire if this liberty has been rightly understood?

Attention Feelings Liberty Human

During practically all of my public life, I have been a sincere advocate of an agreement between the leading nations of the world to set up all the necessary international machinery that would bring about a practical abolition of war between civilized nations.

George William Norris

Life War World Sincere

A visitor from Mars could easily pick out the civilized nations. They have the best implements of war.

Herbert V. Prochnow

Best War Mars Out

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