Quotes
Quotes about Nation
For me, insanity is super sanity. The normal is psychotic. Normal means lack of imagination, lack of creativity.
A great work is made out of a combination of obedience and liberty.
Formulate and stamp indelibly on your mind a mental picture of yourself as succeeding. Hold this picture tenaciously. Never permit it to fade. Your mind will seek to develop the picture... Do not build up obstacles in your imagination.
An opera begins long before the curtain goes up and ends long after it has come down. It starts in my imagination, it becomes my life, and it stays part of my life long after I've left the opera house.
But in every matter the consensus of opinion among all nations is to be regarded as the law of nature. [Lat., Omni autem in re consensio omnium gentium lex naturae putanda est.]
The world is not run by thought, nor by imagination, but by opinion.
The world is not run by thought, nor by imagination, but by opinion.
To put the world in order, we must first put the nation in order; to put the nation in order, we must put the family in order; to put the family in order, we must cultivate our personal life; and to cultivate our personal life, we must first set our hearts right.
Much benevolence of the passive order may be traced to a disinclination to inflict pain upon oneself.
They are a very extensive minority who have suffered discrimination and who have the same right to participation in the promise and fruits of society as every other individual.
For the king of Babylon stood at the parting of the way, at the head of the two ways, to use divination: he made his arrows bright, he consulted with images, he looked in the liver.
The die was now cast; I had passed the Rubicon. Swim or sink, live or die, survive or perish with my country was my unalterable determination.
The unbought grace of life, the cheap defence of nations, the nurse of manly sentiment and heroic enterprise, is gone!
Our country! In her intercourse with foreign nations, may she always be in the right; but our country, right or wrong.
One flag, one land, one heart, one hand, One Nation evermore! - Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.,
A healthy nation is as unconscious of its nationality as a healthy man of his bones. But if you break a nation's nationality it will think of nothing else but getting it set again.
Patriotism has become a mere national self assertion, a sentimentality of flag-cheering with no constructive duties.
Our true nationality is mankind.
Patriotism is when love of your own people comes first; nationalism, when hate for people other than your own comes first.
And he shall judge among the nations, and shall rebuke many people: and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.
Peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations â entangling alliances with none.
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.
There can never be peace between nations until there is first known that true peace which ... is within the souls of men.
Observe good faith and justice toward all nations. Cultivate peace and harmony with all.
All men love peace in their armchairs after dinner; but they disbelieve the other nations's professions, rightly measuring its sincerity by their own.
