Top 1200 Small Nations Quotes & Sayings - Page 19

It's crazy that America gives such a paltry percentage of its GNP to the starving nations.

Books are messengers of freedom. They can be hidden under a mattress or smuggled into slave nations.

Let us have no further blind devotion to the communist dominated United Nations!

The priesthood hath in all nations, and all religions, been held highly venerable.

Harmony, liberal intercourse with all nations, are recommended by policy, humanity, and interest.

The difference of language, dress, and manners . . . severs and alienates the nations of the globe.

Nations have always good reasons for being what they are, and the best of all is that they cannot be otherwise.

For us, for me as national coach, the Nations League is a good invention.

One of the first essentials is a policy of unreserved political cooperation with all the nations of the world.

The problem with the world is that not enough nations are trying to emulate what Americans've done.

Races and nations are thus ever ready to believe the worst of one another.

When two nations are fighting, the duty of a votary of ahimsa is to stop the war.

Madness is rare in individuals - but in groups, parties, nations, and ages it is the rule.

The entertainment industry is one of the areas where we have a competitive advantage over other nations.

We could raise prodigious cities and create nations, and explore the universe.

Men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all the other alternatives.

I am convinced that these ojects do exist and that they are not manufactured by any nations on earth

Liberty must be a mighty thing; for by it God punishes and rewards nations.

There are no small problems. Problems that appear small are large problems that are not understood

Kindness is the light that dissolves all walls between souls, families, and nations.

The world is weary of hate. We see the fatigue overcoming the Western nations.

It all adds up; never discount your efforts, because small efforts build big things. One word doesn't make a novel, but one word does begin a novel, and from that small beginning everything else follows. Even if it's just 'The', write something on that blank page.

Luxembourg's aims is to be in the top 10 space-faring nations in the world.

All the known world, excepting only savage nations, is governed by books.

All nations have present, or past, or future reasons for thinking themselves incomparable.

God has an inexhaustible enthusiasm for the supremacy of His name among the nations.

Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations; entangling alliances with none.

You're never going to read 'The Wealth of Nations,' and you shouldn't, really. It's 900 pages.

Don't expect other nations to have a democracy like ours - they don't have enough lawyers.

Do not overlook tiny good actions, thinking they are of no benefit; even tiny drops of water in the end will fill a huge vessel. Do not overlook negative actions merely because they are small; however small a spark may be, it can burn down a haystack as big as a mountain.

Nations, not least America, retain full command of their national forces.

You can safely appeal to the United Nations in the comfortable certainty that it will let you down.

The concept of the strong linkage to the family is breaking down in Western nations.

Corporations do a lot of things well, but not run nations, for obvious reasons.

The United Nations is a mess, riddled with scandals. In fact, the U.N. itself is a scandal.

I usually write about ordinary people and ordinary things, but Paul Farmer is the least ordinary person I've ever met... He's the leader of a small group of people who hope to cure a sick world, and I hope my book can help in some small way.

Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations.

Youth is the seed time of good habits, as well in nations as in individuals.

The United Nations is committed to ridding the world of anti-personnel landmines.

In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.

If Australia wants an effective United Nations, we have to be comprehensively, not marginally, engaged.

Having what I call crony capitalism, where you take money from successful small businesses, spend it in Washington on favored industries, on favored individuals, picking winners and losers in the economy, that's not pro-growth economics. That's not entrepreneurial economics. That's not helping small businesses. That's cronyism, that's corporate welfare.

The disease of mutual distrust among nations is the bane of modern civilization.

Moscow is simply unwilling to recognize the right of self-determination of nations.

Free nations generally look for ways to deal with dictators amicably.

I believe that democracy is the best guarantor for peace and cooperation among nations.

Nations, like families, have great men only in spite of themselves.

True liberty acknowledges and defends the equal rights of all men, and all nations.

No nations are more warlike than those which profess Christianity.

Protection and patriotism are reciprocal. This is the way which has led nations to greatness.

Nations and men are only the best when they are the gladdest, and deserve heaven when they enjoy it.

But of all nations in the world the English are perhaps the least a nation of pure philosophers.

Kings are for nations in their swaddling-clothes: France has attained her majority.

All nations that have nuclear weapons think that they are responsible and it is the other guys who are irresponsible.

I have ever hated all nations, professions, and communities, and all my love is toward individuals.

If people behaved in the same way nations do they would all be put in straitjackets.

Arab-led Islamic fundamentalism destabilizes nations from Algeria to the Philippines.

History is not reassuring on the subject of the longevity of seemingly lasting great nations, is it?

The highest thinkers of the ages, the seers of the tribes and the nations, have been optimists.

The UK is becoming a pagan nation along with most European nations.