Quotes
Quotes about Nation
A mob is the scum that rises upmost when the nation boils.
The nose of a mob is its imagination. By this, at any time, it can be quietly led.
Money is indeed the most important thing in the world; and all sound and successful personal and national morality should have this fact for its basis.
Money speaks sense in a language all nations understand.
Ah! How neatly tied, in these people, is the umbilical cord of morality! Since they left their mothers they have never sinned, have they? They are apostles, they are the descendants of priests; one can only wonder from what source they draw their indignation, and above all how much they have pocketed to do this, and in any case what it has done for them.
Moral indignation in most cases is, 2% moral, 48% indignation, and 50% envy.
Mountains interposed Make enemies of nations, who had else Like kindred drops been mingled into one.
Absolutism tempered by assassination.
Assassination is the extreme form of censorship.
God is its author, and not man; he laid The key-note of all harmonies; he planned All perfect combinations, and he made Us so that we could hear and understand.
Some to the fascination of a name, Surrender judgment hoodwinked.
A nation is a totality of men united through community of fate into a community of character.
A nation is a thing that lives and acts like a man and men are the particulars of which it is composed.
Territory is but the body of a nation. The people who inhabit its hills and valleys are its soul, its spirit, its life.
A nation, like a person, has a mind--a mind that must be kept informed and alert, that must know itself, that understands the hopes and needs of its neighbors--all the other nations that live within the narrowing circle of the world.
No nation is fit to sit in judgment upon any other nation.
The nation's honor is dearer than the nation's comfort; yes, than the nation's life itself.
A nation never falls but by suicide.
Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind.
Patriotism is when love of your own people comes first; nationalism, when hate for people other than your own comes first.
Nations have lost their old omnipotence; the patriotic tiedoes not hold. Nations are getting obsolete, we go and live where we will.
Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind.
Our true nationality is mankind.
There is a higher form of patriotism than nationalism, and that higher form is not limited by the boundaries of one's country; but by a duty to mankind to safeguard the trust of civilization.
Born in iniquity and conceived in sin, the spirit of nationalism has never ceased to bend human institutions to the service of dissension and distress.
