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In today's world, it is shortsighted to think that infectious diseases cannot cross borders. By allowing developing countries access to generic drugs, we not only help improve health in those nations, we also help ourselves control these debilitating and often deadly diseases.
Author:
Ron Wyden
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Those nations of artists, finding their own individualism, and kind of standing against the world: to me that's the ultimate nightmare. I want to get lost and diffused in the world.
Author:
Robert Wyatt
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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?
Author:
Francis Wright
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I wish to express my hope that the efforts of our nations, nationalities and peoples in the direction of the development of our democratic order will be successful.
Author:
Girma Woldegiorgis
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The nations of antiquity rolled away in the current of ages, Israel alone remained one indestructible edifice of gray antiquity... preserved by an internal and marvelous power.
Author:
Isaac Wise
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Interest does not tie nations together; it sometimes separates them. But sympathy and understanding does unite them.
Author:
Woodrow Wilson
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The question of armaments, whether on land or sea, is the most immediately and intensely practical question connected with the future fortunes of nations and of mankind.
Author:
Woodrow Wilson
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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.
Author:
Rainn Wilson
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There may be some backward countries where the mass of the people are on a subsistence level and where, as an aftermath of wars or partial crop failures, the standard of living has to be drastically reduced, but this certainly is not the case in our prosperous nations.
Author:
Charles Wilson
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When we talk of freedom and opportunity for all nations, the mocking paradoxes in our own society become so clear they can no longer be ignored.
Author:
Wendell Willkie
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To be a Christian is to believe we are commanded and authorised to say certain things to the world; to say things that will make disciples of all nations.
Author:
Rowan Williams
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No man ever did, nor ever shall, truly go forth to convert the nations, nor to prophesy in the present state of witnesses against Antichrist, but by the gracious inspiration and instigation of the Holy Spirit of God.
Author:
Roger Williams
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Many nations are like rebellious teenagers who try to figure out just how many times they can kick us in the teeth while still taking our money.
Author:
Paul Weyrich
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These deserters were our undoing. I shall have a good deal more to say about them before I finally lay down my pen, and I shall not hesitate to call them by their true name, the name with which they will be for ever branded before all the nations of the world.
Author:
Christiaan Wet
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All men should have a drop of treason in their veins, if nations are not to go soft like so many sleepy pears.
Author:
Rebecca West
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Of course the French are making very credible movies and it is still one of the greatest nations in terms of world cinema but the real problem is the decay in film criticism.
Author:
Wim Wenders
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I have always been vitally interested in physical conditioning. I have long believed that athletic competition among people and nations should replace violence and wars.
Author:
Johnny Weissmuller
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If Germany, thanks to Hitler and his successors, were to enslave the European nations and destroy most of the treasures of their past, future historians would certainly pronounce that she had civilized Europe.
Author:
Simone Weil
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Justice, sir, is the great interest of man on earth. It is the ligament which holds civilized beings and civilized nations together.
Author:
Daniel Webster
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Other nations use 'force'; we Britons alone use 'Might'.
Author:
Evelyn Waugh
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Observe good faith and justice toward all nations. Cultivate peace and harmony with all.
Author:
George Washington
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The love of domination and an uncontrolled lust of arbitrary power have prevailed among all nations and perhaps in proportion to the degrees of civilization.
Author:
Mercy Warren
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Lasting peace and security in Iraq and Afghanistan will be achieved when we establish the conditions for democratic, economically viable nations.
Author:
John Warner
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Now, the United Nations is an organization that I believe was founded with good intentions. As a matter of fact, a prominent Tennessean named Cordell Hull was very involved with it.
Author:
Zach Wamp
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The United Nations has become a place where many countries seek to achieve a lynching of the United States by resolution.
Author:
Vernon Walters
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The monuments of the nations are all protests against nothingness after death; so are statues and inscriptions; so is history.
Author:
Lew Wallace
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A fascist is one whose lust for money or power is combined with such an intensity of intolerance toward those of other races, parties, classes, religions, cultures, regions or nations as to make him ruthless in his use of deceit or violence to attain his ends.
Author:
Henry Wallace
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The hope of the nation which throughout the nineteenth century had not for a moment reconciled itself with the loss of independence, and fighting for its own freedom, fought at the same time for the freedom of other nations.
Author:
Lech Walesa
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As is the case with many Middle Eastern nations, women are nowhere near equal to men when it comes to basic freedoms and rights that we take for granted every day.
Author:
Ginny Waite
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The United Nations' greatest fear is that average Americans will no longer tolerate these international scandals and demand that America withdraw from the international organization.
Author:
Ginny Waite
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The United Nations is a mess, riddled with scandals. In fact, the U.N. itself is a scandal.
Author:
Ginny Waite
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The United Nations has come under the control of outlaw nations and self-serving special interest groups.
Author:
Ginny Waite
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The United Nations has no business in our elections.
Author:
David Vitter
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It is true that men themselves made this world of nations... but this world without doubt has issued from a mind often diverse, at times quite contrary, and always superior to the particular ends that men had proposed to themselves.
Author:
Giambattista Vico
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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.
Author:
John Tyler
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The United Nations is designed to make possible lasting freedom and independence for all its members.
Author:
Harry Truman
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They enlarged the domains of commerce by treaties with all nations, upon the great principle of equal justice to all nations, and special favors to none.
Author:
Robert Toombs
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Peace and commerce with foreign nations could be more effectually and cheaply cultivated by a common agent; therefore they gave the Federal Government the sole management of our relations with foreign governments.
Author:
Robert Toombs
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Justice has nothing to do with victor nations and vanquished nations, but must be a moral standard that all the world's peoples can agree to. To seek this and to achieve it - that is true civilization.
Author:
Hideki Tojo
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Throughout that period, Japan had made honest efforts to keep the destruction of war from spreading and, based on the belief that all nations of the world should find their places, had followed a policy designed to restore an expeditious peace between Japan and China.
Author:
Hideki Tojo
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It goes without saying that when survival is threatened, struggles erupt between peoples, and unfortunate wars between nations result.
Author:
Hideki Tojo
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The need for a permanent status resolution approved by Congress is made even more clear to me because of my experience as a former Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations.
Author:
Dick Thornburgh
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As the highest ranking American official in the United Nations organization, I came to understand thoroughly that the national constitutional processes of the member states define the status of territories under their sovereignty.
Author:
Dick Thornburgh
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Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations.
Author:
Henry Thoreau
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China is one of the world's greatest proliferators of weapons of mass destruction to these rogue nations.
Author:
Fred Thompson
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Can one preach at home inequality of races and nations and advocate abroad good-will towards all men?
Author:
Dorothy Thompson
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Democratic nations must try to find ways to starve the terrorist and the hijacker of the oxygen of publicity on which they depend.
Author:
Margaret Thatcher
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People are ready to say, 'Yes, we are ready for single-payer health insurance.' We are the only industrialized country in the world that does not have national health insurance. We are the richest in wealth and the poorest in health of all the industrial nations.
Author:
Studs Terkel
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The U.N. acts as the world's conscience, and over eighty-five percent of the work that is done by the United Nations is in the social, economic, educational and cultural fields.
Author:
Shirley Temple
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The great armies, accumulated to provide security and preserve the peace, carried the nations to war by their own weight.
Author:
A. Taylor
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At a time when we are facing threats from nations such as North Korea and Iran, and attempting to convince others such as India and Pakistan to become responsible nuclear powers, it is vital that America reclaims the leadership we once had on arms control.
Author:
Ellen Tauscher
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All the nations they had to deal with, had the same fate.
Author:
Algernon Sydney
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Poor nations are hungry, and rich nations are proud; and pride and hunger will ever be at variance.
Author:
Jonathan Swift
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I look askance at any movement which assists in making the peacemaker among nations merely a national warrior.
Author:
Arthur Sulzberger
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All nations are more tolerant of their own mistakes and weaknesses than of the mistakes and weaknesses of others.
Author:
Arthur Sulzberger
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Free nations with different histories, economies and a vast amount of stubborn pride will never achieve complete agreement, even when they desire the same objectives.
Author:
Arthur Sulzberger
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The statesmen still say that we should not interfere in the internal affairs of other nations and yet it is not possible any longer not to interfere, even when we do not mean to do so.
Author:
Arthur Sulzberger
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The history of nations shows that words are not always immediately followed by action.
Author:
Gustav Stresemann
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The diplomatic representatives of the United States of America to other nations are almost entirely Jews.
Author:
Julius Streicher
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If the machinery for distribution in the present economic system of the world is incapable of properly distributing the productive wealth of nations, then that system is false and must be altered.
Author:
Gregor Strasser
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His authority on earth allows us to dare to go to all the nations. His authority in heaven gives us our only hope of success. And His presence with us leaves us no other choice.
Author:
John Stott
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Henceforth the leaves of the tree of knowledge were for women, and for the healing of the nations.
Author:
Lucy Stone
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The Lord shall have made his American Israel high above all nations which he hath made.
Author:
Ezra Stiles
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After four years at the United Nations I sometimes yearn for the peace and tranquillity of a political convention.
Author:
Adlai Stevenson
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The whole basis of the United Nations is the right of all nations - great or small - to have weight, to have a vote, to be attended to, to be a part of the twentieth century.
Author:
Adlai Stevenson
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I ever will profess myself the greatest friend to those whose actions best correspond with their doctrine; which, I am sorry to say, is too seldom the case amongst those nations who pretend most to civilization.
Author:
J. Stedman
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In early January I introduced my legislation, which, besides prohibiting Federal funding of human cloning, also expresses the sense of Congress that foreign nations should establish total prohibition on human cloning as well.
Author:
Cliff Stearns
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I think the American people, understandably, have sort of lost faith in the United Nations.
Author:
Cliff Stearns
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We are the biggest donor to the United Nations, contributing 22 percent of the regular operating budget and nearly 27 percent of the peacekeeping budget.
Author:
Cliff Stearns
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Grossing Out dealt with the western nations selling arms to the Third World and exploiting these countries.
Author:
Terry Southern
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We will be safer from terrorist attack only when we have earned the respect of all other nations instead of their fear, respect for our values and not merely our weapons.
Author:
Theodore Sorensen
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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.
Author:
Martha Smith
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Above all nations is humanity.
Author:
Goldwin Smith
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While I recognize the great value and importance of prescription drugs and strongly support a continued U.S. focus on pharmaceutical research and development, our nation's seniors cannot be asked to subsidize the drug costs of other wealthy industrialized nations any longer.
Author:
Michael Simpson
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Free trade is very important if we respect equality among nations.
Author:
Luiz Silva
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Ten years ago in Nairobi we said that the participation of women in the decision-making and appraisal processes of the United Nations was essential if the organization was to effectively serve women's interests.
Author:
Jenny Shipley
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On many occasions New Zealand has spoken about the need to ensure that women's concerns are fully integrated into all aspects of the United Nations' activities and structures, not marginalised in one part of the Secretariat.
Author:
Jenny Shipley
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Now, the entire world community recognizes Georgia. We are members of the United Nations and the Council of Europe. Everything is being prepared so that we will soon enter the European Union.
Author:
Eduard Shevardnadze
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And occasionally some of the nations that will be partners in this would probably not be, in terms of passing a pure human rights check, have everything going for them that you would like to have.
Author:
Hugh Shelton
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But again, we, I think, over the years have set the example for a lot of nations that may not have had the same values, the same type of coming out of the same culture that we as Americans have and enjoy. But we can be an example, a role model for them.
Author:
Hugh Shelton
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Those are the things that, in the wrong hands - and certainly in our war on terrorism we also must attack proliferation and those nations that proliferate with chemical, biological and nuclear type devices, because that can cause the most catastrophic results.
Author:
Hugh Shelton
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Japan is not a Western democracy. The Japanese have kept their traditions, culture and heritage, but they have joined the community of free nations.
Author:
Natan Sharansky
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We have said that Israel has had a very bad history with the United Nations, and whoever cares for himself in Israel distances himself from that Organization.
Author:
Yitzhak Shamir
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But assuming the same premises, to wit, that all men are equal by the law of nature and of nations, the right of property in slaves falls to the ground; for one who is equal to another cannot be the owner or property of that other.
Author:
William Seward
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But you answer, that the Constitution recognizes property in slaves. It would be sufficient, then, to reply, that this constitutional recognition must be void, because it is repugnant to the law of nature and of nations.
Author:
William Seward
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I deem it established, then, that the Constitution does not recognize property in man, but leaves that question, as between the states, to the law of nature and of nations.
Author:
William Seward
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Each particular society begins to feel its strength, whence arises a state of war between different nations.
Author:
Charles Secondat
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The law of nations is naturally founded on this principle, that different nations ought in time of peace to do one another all the good they can, and in time of war as little injury as possible, without prejudicing their real interests.
Author:
Charles Secondat
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Every nation ridicules other nations, and all are right.
Author:
Arthur Schopenhauer
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National character is only another name for the particular form which the littleness, perversity and baseness of mankind take in every country. Every nation mocks at other nations, and all are right.
Author:
Arthur Schopenhauer
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I think the international appeal of SF is quite understandable since the kinds of people who like to read it, are, by the nature of the beast, interested in other cultures, of which other nations on Earth are the closest available example.
Author:
Stanley Schmidt
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The European nations' loss of sovereignty to the EU should be a warning to Americans.
Author:
Phyllis Schlafly
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And in this community, as in all others, the Golden Rule still applies - we must be act toward other nations as we would have them act towards America.
Author:
Adam Schiff
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So let us call genocide, genocide. Let us not minimize the deliberate murder of 1.5 million people. Let us have a moral victory that can shine as a light to all nations.
Author:
Adam Schiff
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We live in a dangerous world where rogue nations are developing longer range missiles. We have to make a strong effort at developing defenses against this threat.
Author:
Jim Saxton
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The blood and sweat shed by United States and United Nations troops proved to be the prime mover behind the realisation of freedom throughout the post-war period.
Author:
Kim Sam
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The use and threat of force, when world peace is not in danger, are no longer valid frames of reference for achieving the ends sought today by sovereign nations.
Author:
Carlos Salinas
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Keeping small nations enslaved because of the deals between the great nations or because of any pragmatic considerations that might have been there are totally unacceptable.
Author:
Mikhail Saakashvili
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Great nations write their autobiographies in three manuscripts - the book of their deeds, the book of their words and the book of their art.
Author:
John Ruskin
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Such is the miraculous nature of the future of exiles: what is first uttered in the impotence of an overheated apartment becomes the fate of nations.
Author:
Salman Rushdie
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The privatization law draft was recently released and I believe that very soon we will start applying it, of course taking into consideration the provisions of UNMIK (United Nations Mission in Kosovo).
Author:
Ibrahim Rugova
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Most nations, as well as people are impossible only in their youth; they become incorrigible as they grow older.
Author:
Jean Rousseau
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Let me remind you that nuclear disarmament is not just an ardent desire of the people, as expressed in many resolutions of the United Nations. It is a legal commitment by the five official nuclear states, entered into when they signed the Non-Proliferation Treaty.
Author:
Joseph Rotblat
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Indeed, the very first resolution of the General Assembly of the United Nations - adopted unanimously - called for the elimination of nuclear weapons.
Author:
Joseph Rotblat
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The theoretical postulate of all diplomatic discussion between nations is the assumed willingness of every nation to do justice.
Author:
Elihu Root
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Gradually, everything that happens in the world is coming to be of interest everywhere in the world, and, gradually, thoughtful men and women everywhere are sitting in judgment upon the conduct of all nations.
Author:
Elihu Root
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The attractive idea that we can now have a parliament of man with authority to control the conduct of nations by legislation or an international police force with power to enforce national conformity to rules of right conduct is a counsel of perfection.
Author:
Elihu Root
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America cannot continue to lead the family of nations around the world if we suffer the collapse of the family here at home.
Author:
Mitt Romney
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Transferring our sovereignty and decisionmaking power to the WTO, to the United Nations, or any other international body is not in the long-term interests of our people.
Author:
Dana Rohrabacher
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Why should the Negroes ever fight against the only nations of the world where racial discrimination is prohibited, and where the people can live freely? Never! I can assure you, they will never fight against either the Soviet Union or the peoples' democracies.
Author:
Paul Robeson
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Half a world away nations that once lived under oppression and tyranny are now budding democracies due in large part to America 's leadership and the sacrifices of our military.
Author:
Bob Riley
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I had come to regard the U.S. Senate's rejection of the League of Nations as a tragic mistake.
Author:
Elliot Richardson
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Well, there's been plenty of ultimatums, and one thing that we better be very clear is that we can't continue to have the kind of defiance of the United Nations, the defiance of the international community that we've had.
Author:
Condoleezza Rice
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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.
Author:
Charles Rangel
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In the United Nations, when China entered, we voted on the same position, and since then we have maintained the same position, that position has not changed.
Author:
Sellapan Ramanathan
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Of course the case of the Christian Church planted among the nations must differ, in various ways, from that of any sect forming in connection with religious awakening in a territory of professing Christianity.
Author:
Robert Rainy
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All these other nations seem to appreciate what I'm doing and they want me to play the furthest out things.
Author:
Sun Ra
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Lightly armed nations can move toward war just as easily as those which are armed to the teeth, and they will do so if the usual causes of war are not removed.
Author:
Ludwig Quidde
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A visitor from Mars could easily pick out the civilized nations. They have the best implements of war.
Author:
Herbert Prochnow
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I am delighted to have had students, friends and colleagues in so many nations and to have learned so much of what I know from them. This Nobel Award honours them all.
Author:
John Pople
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A new sense of shared international responsibility is unmistakable in the voices of the United Nations and its agencies, and in the civil society of thousands of supra-national NGOs.
Author:
John Polanyi
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World-wide practice of Conservation and the fair and continued access by all nations to the resources they need are the two indispensable foundations of continuous plenty and of permanent peace.
Author:
Gifford Pinchot
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After all, you're not exactly a nation like all the other nations. You are unique, if only because you are such an ancient people, and because of the way you are spread all over the world and your obvious success in many fields.
Author:
Jean-Marie Pen
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As to the first, I do not know that I have done very much myself to promote fraternity between nations but I do know that there can be no more important purpose for any man's activity or interests.
Author:
Lester Pearson
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The choice, however, is as clear now for nations as it was once for the individual: peace or extinction.
Author:
Lester Pearson
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The United Nations organization has proclaimed 1979 as the Year of the Child. Are the children to receive the arms race from us as a necessary inheritance?
Author:
Pope Paul II
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There are people and nations, Mother, that I would like to say to you by name. I entrust them to you in silence, I entrust them to you in the way that you know best.
Author:
Pope Paul II
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Just think of what Woodrow Wilson stood for: he stood for world government. He wanted an early United Nations, League of Nations. But it was the conservatives, Republicans, that stood up against him.
Author:
Ron Paul
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After September 11th, nations from across the globe offered their generous assistance to the people of New York. And whenever our friends around the world need our assistance, New York is there.
Author:
George Pataki
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To establish any mode to abolish war, however advantageous it might be to Nations, would be to take from such Government the most lucrative of its branches.
Author:
Thomas Paine
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In recent times, European nations, with the use of gunpowder and other technical improvements in warfare, controlled practically the whole world. One, the British Empire, brought under one government a quarter of the earth and its inhabitants.
Author:
John Orr
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We are now physically, politically, and economically one world and nations so interdependent that the absolute national sovereignty of nations is no longer possible.
Author:
John Orr
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As we have seen, the wireless and the airplane have made the world so small and nations so dependent on each other that the only alternative to war is the United States of the World.
Author:
John Orr
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We could raise prodigious cities and create nations, and explore the universe.
Author:
Jose Orozco
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In the recent years there have been criticisms levelled against Japan suggesting that she should offer more military forces to the United Nations forces and thereby play a more active role in the keeping and restoration of peace in various parts of the world.
Author:
Kenzaburo Oe
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Most high courts in other nations do not have discretion, such as we enjoy, in selecting the cases that the high court reviews. Our court is virtually alone in the amount of discretion it has.
Author:
Sandra O'Connor
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My sense is that jurists from other nations around the world understand that our court occupies a very special place in the American system, and that the court is rather well regarded in comparison, perhaps, to their own.
Author:
Sandra O'Connor
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Occasionally we have to interpret an international treaty - one, perhaps, affecting airlines and liability for injury to passengers or damage to goods. Then, of course, we have to look to the precedents of other member nations in resolving issues.
Author:
Sandra O'Connor
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You can safely appeal to the United Nations in the comfortable certainty that it will let you down.
Author:
Conor O'Brien
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The main thing that endears the United Nations to member governments, and so enables it to survive, is its proven capacity to fail, and to be seen to fail.
Author:
Conor O'Brien
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And those are the Rich, who transmit what they have to their Posterity; whereby particular Families become rich; and of such are compounded Cities, Countries, Nations, etc.
Author:
Dudley North
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First, we could have defied both of them and could have gone to war against both of these nations for this violation of international law and interference with our neutral rights.
Author:
George Norris
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There is not much danger of the smaller nations if the big nations will behave.
Author:
George Norris
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In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.
Author:
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Insanity in individuals is something rare - but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.
Author:
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Madness is rare in individuals - but in groups, parties, nations, and ages it is the rule.
Author:
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Even at the United Nations, where legend has it that the building was designed so that there could be no corner offices, the expanse of glass in individual offices is said to be a dead giveaway as to rank. Five windows are excellent, one window not so great.
Author:
Enid Nemy
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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.
Author:
Jawaharlal Nehru
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It is extremely important that mass media, having freed from the relics of the Cold War, served for peace and dialogue between nations and religions, the rich and the poor, countries and continents.
Author:
Nursultan Nazarbayev
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First and foremost arms are tools in the service of rival nations, pointing at the possibility of a future war.
Author:
Alva Myrdal
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The longing for peace is rooted in the hearts of all men. But the striving, which at present has become so insistent, cannot lay claim to such an ambition as leading the way to eternal peace, or solving all disputes among nations.
Author:
Alva Myrdal
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The fate of nations is intimately bound up with their powers of reproduction. All nations and all empires first felt decadence gnawing at them when their birth rate fell off.
Author:
Benito Mussolini
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The Menzies Government, by its participation in the plans for the development of other nations, can see the virtue of planning for them but apparently cannot see the virtue of a plan for Australia.
Author:
Lionel Murphy
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Pushing production out of America to nations without our environmental standards increases global environmental risks.
Author:
Frank Murkowski
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For a century longer, Rome still retains its outward form, but the swarming nations are now in full career.
Author:
John Motley
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In disposition the Negro is joyous, flexible, and indolent; while the many nations which compose this race present a singular diversity of intellectual character, of which the far extreme is the lowest grade of humanity.
Author:
Samuel Morton
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The moral and intellectual character of the Africans is widely different in different nations.
Author:
Samuel Morton
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I also believe that member states of the United Nations should live up their obligations to pay their dues.
Author:
Alex Morrison
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I do believe that the United Nations needs to have more exacting, more enhanced professional standards for the military peacekeepers that are deployed.
Author:
Alex Morrison
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However, the Government has made it clear that we do not encourage the recruitment of teachers from developing nations where there may be an adverse effect on the economy.
Author:
Estelle Morris
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In my opinion, if we have not achieved peace, it is because people forget its most fundamental aspect. Before we talk about peace among nations, we must settle our peace with God.
Author:
Sun Moon
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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.
Author:
James Monroe
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The right of self defense never ceases. It is among the most sacred, and alike necessary to nations and to individuals, and whether the attack be made by Spain herself or by those who abuse her power, its obligation is not the less strong.
Author:
James Monroe
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Wars of aggression are popular nowadays with those nations convinced that only victory and conquest could improve their material well-being.
Author:
Ludwig Mises
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Whoever wants peace among nations must seek to limit the state and its influence most strictly.
Author:
Ludwig Mises
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If some peoples pretend that history or geography gives them the right to subjugate other races, nations, or peoples, there can be no peace.
Author:
Ludwig Mises
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Let not England forget her precedence of teaching nations how to live.
Author:
John Milton
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What is poetry which does not save nations or people?
Author:
Czeslaw Milosz
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For as long as multinational communities have existed, their weak point has always been the relations between different nations.
Author:
Slobodan Milosevic
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Yugoslavia is a multinational community and it can survive only under the conditions of full equality for all nations that live in it.
Author:
Slobodan Milosevic
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Moreover, broad plans commensurate with our national purpose and resources would bring conviction of our power to every soldier in the front line, to the nations associated with us in the war, and to the enemy.
Author:
Kelly Miller
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With Germany herself falling, it is not strange that the nations leagued with her also went down to defeat.
Author:
Kelly Miller
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If you want to study the social and political history of modern nations, study hell.
Author:
Thomas Merton
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For a generation, terrorists learned they could make war on free nations without fear of war in return. On September 12, the terrorists got war in return.
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Ken Mehlman
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A knowledgeable and courageous U.S. president could help enormously in leading the world's nations toward saving the climate.
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Donella Meadows
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The European nations take climate change very seriously.
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Donella Meadows
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Warfare is an utterly stupid method of settling differences of interest between different nations.
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George Mead
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Bombing the Murrah Federal Building was morally and strategically equivalent to the U.S. hitting a government building in Serbia, Iraq, or other nations.
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Timothy McVeigh
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Only to the extent that men desire peace and brotherhood can the world be made better. No peace even though temporarily obtained, will be permanent, whether to individuals or nations, unless it is built upon the solid foundation of eternal principles.
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David McKay
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Nations, like plants and human beings, grow. And if the development is thwarted they are dwarfed and overshadowed.
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Claude McKay
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Insurrection by means of guerrilla bands is the true method of warfare for all nations desirous of emancipating themselves from a foreign yoke. It is invincible, indestructible.
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Giuseppe Mazzini
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It would be stupid tameness, and unaccountable folly, for whole nations to suffer one unreasonable, ambitious and cruel man, to wanton and riot in their misery.
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Jonathan Mayhew
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As nations can not be rewarded or punished in the next world they must be in this.
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George Mason
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Fortunately, there is a sane equilibrium in the character of nations, as there is in that of men.
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Jose Marti
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The struggles waged by nations are weak only when they lack support in the hearts of their women.
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Jose Marti
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Mountains culminate in peaks, and nations in men.
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Jose Marti
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I am proud to represent these men and women who empower people in developing nations and promote the Peace Corps mission of peace and friendship. These volunteers are making major strides to improve the lives of people and communities around the world.
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Kenny Marchant
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Since September 11, 2001, the powerful coalition of nations, led by the United States, has seen many successes against al-Qaeda and other terrorist groups. It is imperative that we remain united and steadfast in the quest to defeat terrorism around the world.
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Kenny Marchant
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All countries, big or small, strong or weak, are equal members of the United Nations.
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Nong Manh
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Every citizen in every country in the world now grows up in two nations. Their own and Hollywood.
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Nick Mancuso
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A constitution that is made for all nations is made for none.
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Joseph Maistre
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The Koran and the laws of all civilized nations legislate against the vilification of religions.
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Naguib Mahfouz
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We spent a month in Japan last year, a week in Istanbul for the United Nations, and nearly three months in my native Nova Scotia, where my two brothers have homes; and we'll go back there this summer.
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Robert MacNeil
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Maxims are the condensed good sense of nations.
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James Mackintosh
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If the United States leads a multinational force into Iraq without United Nations backing, Canada should fight beside its neighbour. We've gone from being a middle power to a muddle power on this one.
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Peter MacKay
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Money, again, has often been a cause of the delusion of the multitudes. Sober nations have all at once become desperate gamblers, and risked almost their existence upon the turn of a piece of paper.
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Charles Mackay
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War in men's eyes shall be A monster of iniquity In the good time coming. Nations shall not quarrel then, To prove which is the stronger; Nor slaughter men for glory's sake; - Wait a little longer.
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Charles Mackay
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Humanistic values of equality and equal rights for all nations and individuals as crystallized in the principles of the United Nations Charter are mankind's great achievements in the 20th century.
Author:
Tran Luong
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While it may take generations of nurturing, nations founded on and grounded in freedom will eventually overcome and prosper. Once free, folks rarely accept anything less, and that includes Iraqis.
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Trent Lott
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The primary, the fundamental, the essential purpose of the United Nations is to keep peace. Everything it does which helps prevent World War III is good. Everything which does not further that goal, either directly or indirectly, is at best superfluous.
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Henry Lodge, Jr.
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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.
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Henry Lodge, Jr.
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May the United Nations ever be vigilant and potent to defeat the swallowing up of any nation, at any time, by any means-by armies with banners, by force or by fraud, by tricks or by midnight treachery.
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Henry Lodge, Jr.
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I have loved but one flag and I can not share that devotion and give affection to the mongrel banner invented for the League of Nations.
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Henry Lodge
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The United States is the world's best hope, but if you fetter her in the interests and quarrels of other nations, if you tangle her in the intrigues of Europe, you will destroy her power for good and endanger her very existence.
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Henry Lodge
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But it is well to remember that we are dealing with nations every one of which has a direct individual interest to serve, and there is grave danger in an unshared idealism.
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Henry Lodge
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I would rather see the United States respected than loved by other nations.
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Henry Lodge
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If nations could only depend upon fair and impartial judgments in a world court of law, they would abandon the senseless, savage practice of war.
Author:
Belva Lockwood
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The United Nations remains our most important global actor. These days we are continuously reminded of the enormous responsibility of the Security Council to uphold international peace and stability.
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Anna Lindh
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International socialism recognizes the right of free independent nations, with equal rights.
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Karl Liebknecht
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Class struggle: external peace, international solidarity, peace among peoples. This is the sacred slogan of international socialist democracy that liberates nations.
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Karl Liebknecht
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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.
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Joe Lieberman
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The United Nations has a lot of capacity on the ground.
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Stephen Lewis
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We begin with the common belief that Saddam Hussein is a tyrant and a threat to the peace and stability of the region. He has ignored the mandated of the United Nations and is building weapons of mass destruction and the means of delivering them.
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Carl Levin
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Can a nation be free if it oppresses other nations? It cannot.
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Vladimir Lenin
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The war is dreadful. It is the business of the artist to follow it home to the heart of the individual fighters - not to talk in armies and nations and numbers - but to track it home.
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David Lawrence
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To my mind, the most important aspect of the Nobel Awards is that they bring home to the masses of the peoples of all nations, a realization of their common interests. They carry to those who have no direct contact with science the international spirit.
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Irving Langmuir
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Internationalism is a social and political theory, a certain concept of how human society ought to be organized, and in particular a concept of how the nations ought to organize their mutual relations.
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Christian Lange
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On the contrary. Internationalism also recognizes, by its very name, that nations do exist. It simply limits their scope more than one-sided nationalism does.
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Christian Lange
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Mr. Speaker, in seeking to return to the United Nations, the Republic of China on Taiwan will once again ask diplomatic allies to present its case before the United Nations this fall.
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Nick Lampson
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Free nations of the world cannot allow Taiwan, a beacon of democracy, to be subdued by an authoritarian China.
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Nick Lampson
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If the war has faded into history, democracy's defeat in Vietnam has left deep marks in the consciousness of both nations.
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Nguyen Ky
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However, if the religions in essence merely repeat statements from the United Nations Human Rights Declaration, such a Declaration becomes superfluous; an ethic is more than rights.
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Hans Kung
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Iraq does not pose an imminent threat to the United States of any of its neighboring nations.
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Dennis Kucinich
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The great nations have always acted like gangsters, and the small nations like prostitutes.
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Stanley Kubrick
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The greatest nations have all acted like gangsters and the smallest like prostitutes.
Author:
Stanley Kubrick
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I consider no man honest who does not observe towards other nations the principles which he desires to be observed towards his own: and therefore I will not interfere in your domestic questions.
Author:
Lajos Kossuth
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We imagined that the mildness of our government and the wishes of the people were so correspondent that we were not as other nations, requiring brutal force to support the laws.
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Henry Knox
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For other nations, utopia is a blessed past never to be recovered; for Americans it is just beyond the horizon.
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Henry Kissinger
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If the military might of Germany and Japan are ultimately to be crushed, the United Nations, one and all, must definitely and urgently strive toward a total war effort.
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William King
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The purpose of the United Nations should be to protect the essential sovereignty of nations, large and small.
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Nikita Khrushchev
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Whether we are poor among the poorest, or less poor among the wealthier, let us stand proud and noteworthy, united and strong, comforted by our belonging to the Community of the Free Nations of our Planet.
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Mathieu Kerekou
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A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on.
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John Kennedy
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We cannot expect that all nations will adopt like systems, for conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.
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John Kennedy
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Governments must now take a leading role in moving their nations in the right direction.
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Henry Kendall
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I believe that in the end the abolition of war, the maintenance of world peace, the adjustment of international questions by pacific means will come through the force of public opinion, which controls nations and peoples.
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Frank Kellogg
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France and Italy have not yet signed this treaty or agreed to naval limitation as between those nations, but I have confidence that in time they will do so.
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Frank Kellogg
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I know of no greater work for humanity than in the cause of peace, which can only be achieved by the earnest efforts of nations and peoples.
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Frank Kellogg
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Certain it is that a great responsibility rests upon the statesmen of all nations, not only to fulfill the promises for reduction in armaments, but to maintain the confidence of the people of the world in the hope of an enduring peace.
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Frank Kellogg
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Each one of these treaties is a step for the maintenance of peace, an additional guarantee against war. It is through such machinery that the disputes between nations will be settled and war prevented.
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Frank Kellogg
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It is idle to say that nations can struggle to outdo each other in building armaments and never use them. History demonstrates the contrary, and we have but to go back to the last war to see the appalling effect of nations competing in great armaments.
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Frank Kellogg
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These measures may not constitute an absolute guarantee of peace, but, in my opinion, they constitute the greatest preventive measures ever adopted by nations.
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Frank Kellogg
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There will always be disputes between nations which, at times, will inflame the public and threaten conflicts, but the main thing is to educate the people of the world to be ever mindful that there are better means of settling such disputes than by war.
Author:
Frank Kellogg
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The great men of power who seek to change the nations they belong to usually are pretty terrible people.
Author:
John Keegan
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We should never rush into folly just because other nations are practicing it.
Author:
Leon Kass
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Hopefully, nations will refuse to accept a situation in which nuclear accidents actually do occur, and, if at all possible, they will do something to correct a system which makes them likely.
Author:
Herman Kahn
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The widespread diffusion of nuclear weapons would make many nations able, and in some cases also create the pressure, to aggravate an on-going crisis, or even touch off a war between two other powers for purposes of their own.
Author:
Herman Kahn
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The banding together by the nations of the world against Israel is the guarantee that their time of destruction is near and the final redemption of the Jew at hand.
Author:
Meir Kahane
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Nations have their ego, just like individuals.
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James Joyce
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The fight against terror is a common imperative for democracies and must become so for all nations.
Author:
Lionel Jospin
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Nations are not thugs. They are bodies of intelligent people.
Author:
Rufus Jones
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What other nations call religious toleration, we call religious rights. They are not exercised in virtue of governmental indulgence, but as rights, of which government cannot deprive any portion of citizens, however small.
Author:
Richard Johnson
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The true and solid peace of nations consists not in equality of arms, but in mutual trust alone.
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Pope John XXIII
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Finally, we should help developing nations like China and India curb their exponentially increasing consumption of oil and natural gas, which is driving world prices higher.
Author:
Bobby Jindal
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Commerce with all nations, alliance with none, should be our motto.
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Thomas Jefferson
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Money, not morality, is the principle commerce of civilized nations.
Author:
Thomas Jefferson
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Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations; entangling alliances with none.
Author:
Thomas Jefferson
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An association of men who will not quarrel with one another is a thing which has never yet existed, from the greatest confederacy of nations down to a town meeting or a vestry.
Author:
Thomas Jefferson
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It is, I think, an indisputable fact that Americans are, as Americans, the most self-conscious people in the world, and the most addicted to the belief that the other nations of the earth are in a conspiracy to under value them.
Author:
Henry James
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Bush and Blair combined their efforts to deceive both nations in a carefully coordinated manner, more so than anyone is willing to point out in the media.
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Bianca Jagger
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Bosnia is a complicated country: three religions, three nations and those "others". Nationalism is strong in all three nations; in two of them there are a lot of racism, chauvinism, separatism; and now we are supposed to make a state out of that.
Author:
Alija Izetbegovic
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America has global trade with plenty of nations that provide inexpensive labor, but it's better for us when they're in our own hemisphere, rather than sending that business halfway around the world.
Author:
Ernest Istook
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There's a lot of exaggerated talk about CAFTA, but it's actually a fairly routine trade agreement. Although it involves fairly small nations, they're still more important trade partners than places like Australia or many other larger nations.
Author:
Ernest Istook
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Nations are born in the hearts of poets, they prosper and die in the hands of politicians.
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Muhammad Iqbal
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Few nations have been so poor as to have but one god. Gods were made so easily, and the raw material cost so little, that generally the god market was fairly glutted and heaven crammed with these phantoms.
Author:
Robert Ingersoll
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There are lots of nations in the world or national peoples who don't yet have states. They're inside someone else's state and they want a state of their own.
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Michael Ignatieff
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I think clearly the United States, as well as other western nations, should stand by their commitments to human rights and democracy and should try to influence other countries to move in that direction.
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Samuel Huntington
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In fact, effective solidarity with the poor, both individual persons and entire nations, is indispensable for the construction of peace.
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Claudio Hummes
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Fortunately, the war has brought with it not alone a stark realization of what another war would mean to the world, but as well the creation of an international agency through which the nations of the world can, if they so desire, make peace a living reality.
Author:
Cordell Hull
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Within a few weeks the organization for the maintenance of international peace and security, established by the San Francisco Charter, will be formally launched through the convocation of the first General Assembly of the United Nations.
Author:
Cordell Hull
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Nations, like stars, are entitled to eclipse. All is well, provided the light returns and the eclipse does not become endless night. Dawn and resurrection are synonymous. The reappearance of the light is the same as the survival of the soul.
Author:
Victor Hugo
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Terrorists oppose nations such as the United States and Australia not because of what we have done but because of who we are and because of the values that we hold in common.
Author:
John Howard
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And you prate of the wealth of nations, as if it were bought and sold, The wealth of nations is men, not silk and cotton and gold.
Author:
Richard Hovey
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Texas will again lift it's head and stand among the nations. It ought to do so, for no country upon the globe can compare with it in natural advantages.
Author:
Sam Houston
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As a result of America's efforts to realize the ideals of equality and freedom, blacks in America are now the freest and richest black people anywhere on the face of the earth including all of the nations that are ruled by blacks.
Author:
David Horowitz
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Finland had a civil war less than 100 years ago, just like in Ireland. If you look at the history of newly independent nations, civil war is almost every time present, even in the United States.
Author:
Harri Holkeri
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I really do hope that the Millennium Summit gives new impetus to the work of the United Nations.
Author:
Harri Holkeri
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If we go back in the history of different nations, violence and the use of force are part of their heritage. These are the traditions of mankind.
Author:
Harri Holkeri
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Nations without a past are contradictions in terms. What makes a nation is the past, what justifies one nation against others is the past, and historians are the people who produce it.
Author:
Eric Hobsbawm
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Criticism and pessimism destroy families, undermine institutions of all kinds, defeat nearly everyone, and spread a shroud of gloom over entire nations.
Author:
Gordon Hinckley
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I'm a member of the US committee o the United Nations.
Author:
Betty Hill
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Surrounded by military airplanes and warships from the world's most civilized and developed nations, we have been denied permission by friendly governments, for reasons of security, to land anywhere, but in the tiny, and still neutral, Republic of Djibouti.
Author:
Thor Heyerdahl
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If nations always moved from one set of furnished rooms to another - and always into a better set - things might be easier, but the trouble is that there is no one to prepare the new rooms. The future is worse than the ocean - there is nothing there.
Author:
Alexander Herzen
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It is because I believe that it is in the power of such nations to lead the world back into the paths of peace that I propose to devote myself to explaining what, in my opinion, can and should be done to banish the fear of war that hangs so heavily over the world.
Author:
Arthur Henderson
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In our modern world of interdependent nations, hardly any state can wage war successfully without raising loans and buying war materials of every kind in the markets of other nations.
Author:
Arthur Henderson
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One of the first essentials is a policy of unreserved political cooperation with all the nations of the world.
Author:
Arthur Henderson
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He would see civilization in danger of perishing under the oppression of a gigantic paradox: he would see multitudes of people starving in the midst of plenty, and nations preparing for war although pledged to peace.
Author:
Arthur Henderson
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Those nations have a very great responsibility at this juncture of the world's affairs, for by throwing their joint weight into the scales of history on the right side, they may tip the balance decisively in favour of peace.
Author:
Arthur Henderson
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The world before 1914 was already a world in which the welfare of each individual nation was inextricably bound up with the prosperity of the whole community of nations.
Author:
Arthur Henderson
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The nations must be organized internationally and induced to enter into partnership, subordinating in some measure national sovereignty to worldwide institutions and obligations.
Author:
Arthur Henderson
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The first condition of success for the League of Nations is, therefore, a firm understanding between the British Empire and the United States of America and France and Italy that there will be no competitive building up of fleets or armies between them.
Author:
Arthur Henderson
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It may surprise people to know that I advocate the reform of the United Nations, not its abolishment.
Author:
Jesse Helms
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What our men and women in uniform are doing is providing for the Iraqi people and other surrounding nations the opportunity to see, to taste and to experience the democracy that equals freedom and ultimately justice.
Author:
Robin Hayes
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Without free, self-respecting, and autonomous citizens there can be no free and independent nations. Without internal peace, that is, peace among citizens and between the citizens and the state, there can be no guarantee of external peace.
Author:
Vaclav Havel
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Nearly 60 years ago, the international community made a commitment to put an end to the crime of genocide by ratifying the United Nations Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide.
Author:
Alcee Hastings
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Any nation that refuses to hold intercourse with other nations must expect to be excluded from this family.
Author:
Townsend Harris
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The nations of the West hope that by means of steam communication all the world will become as one family.
Author:
Townsend Harris
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Individuals and nations owe it to themselves and the world to become informed.
Author:
Paul Harris
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The biggest trade that Germany and Britain had was with each other, in the prewar period; I think I'm right in that. Two highly industrialized nations had the most trade with each other, and it wasn't tariff policies alone that made trade relations better for both of them.
Author:
W. Harriman
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Everything will be all right - you know when? When people, just people, stop thinking of the United Nations as a weird Picasso abstraction and see it as a drawing they made themselves.
Author:
Dag Hammarskjold
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God is concerned with nations, but nations also need to be concerned with God. No nation can have a monopoly on God, but God will bless any nation whose people seek and honor His will as revealed by Christ and declared through the Holy Spirit.
Author:
John Haggai
