Nations Quotes

We remain at peace with all nations, and no efforts on my part consistent with the preservation of our rights and the honor of the country shall be spared to maintain a position so consonant to our institutions.

There was one point in high school actually when I was on the chess team, marching band, model United Nations and debate club all at the same time. And I would spend time with the computer club after school. And I had just quit pottery club, which I was in junior high, but I let that go.

If you do your research on hot springs all over the world, they're usually places of peace. People, even in warring nations and so forth, they'll go and live in peace together around the hot springs, which were always considered medicinal. I firmly believe in water therapy.

Community means engaging constructively with like-minded nations to build strong, sustaining institutions and alliances - and bringing emerging powers into this community so future conflict becomes less likely.

If the war has faded into history, democracy's defeat in Vietnam has left deep marks in the consciousness of both nations.

As nations can not be rewarded or punished in the next world they must be in this.

Well we are hoping that the power of the community of free nations is such that our sovereignty our rights are not going to be challenged by anybody who's going try to undermine the freedom, the openness of our societies and our security.

Nations, like plants and human beings, grow. And if the development is thwarted they are dwarfed and overshadowed.

As New Zealanders, we've been in on the United Nations from the very beginning, played a role in the drafting of the charter - it means a lot to us that those processes are followed.

The fight against terror is a common imperative for democracies and must become so for all nations.

So far as it depends on the course of this government, our relations of good will and friendship will be sedulously cultivated with all nations.

Now is the time for the U.S. and the nations of Western Europe who engaged in the slave trade throughout this hemisphere to come forward in a positive way to assist in undoing the harm that was caused by their past colonial policies in the hemisphere.

No nation is so great as to be able to afford, in the long run, to remain outside an increasingly universal League of Nations.

America cannot continue to lead the family of nations around the world if we suffer the collapse of the family here at home.

John Danforth, I thought, was a great senator and did a great job with the United Nations. I think he's a good man. I would respectfully disagree with that.

I had come to regard the U.S. Senate's rejection of the League of Nations as a tragic mistake.

The nations of the West hope that by means of steam communication all the world will become as one family.

In all nations an exceptional man exists that compensates the deficiencies of the remainder. In those moments, when humanity is found collectively in a state of decadence, there always remain those exceptional beings as point of reference.

Everybody knows that the industrialized nations are the worst offenders.

In spite of our poverty and our economic dependence, we do not have to give in, neither because we are sometimes abandoned nor because of the wish of some nations to impose their economic or political models.

Membership of the United Nations gives every member the right to make a fool of himself, and that is a right of which the Soviet Union in this case has taken full advantage.

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

Each particular society begins to feel its strength, whence arises a state of war between different nations.

The United States must also continue to push the United Nations Security Council for strong action to thwart Iran's nuclear ambitions. In the meantime, it is our job to take meaningful steps to eliminate the threats posed by Iran.

Peace is not a relationship of nations. It is a condition of mind brought about by a serenity of soul. Peace is not merely the absence of war. It is also a state of mind. Lasting peace can come only to peaceful people.

It goes without saying that when survival is threatened, struggles erupt between peoples, and unfortunate wars between nations result.

Historically, foreign powers have always been the ones to keep Latin nations divided.

There is no such thing as the United Nations.

If we look to the history of other nations, ancient or modern, we find no example of a growth so rapid, so gigantic, of a people so prosperous and happy.

There was a lot of protest after Bravo, from countries like India, for example. India was the first country which came forward and proposed at the United Nations that all of these nuclear tests should be stopped, that there should be a complete ban on nuclear testing.