Men may be linked in friendship. Nations are linked only by interests.
Nation Quotes
Nations live or die by the way they respond to the particular challenges they face. Those challenges may be internal or external; they may be faced by a nation alone or in concert with other nations; they may come gradually or suddenly. There is no immutable law of nature that says only the unjust will […]
A nation is only an individual multiplied.
A nation is a thing that lives and acts like a man and men are the particulars of which it is composed.
Nations and empires flourish and decay, By turns command, and in their turns obey.
A new century is to a nation very much what a new year is to a man.
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.
Today the nations of the world may be divided into two classes; the nations in which the government fears the people, and the nations in which the people fear the government.
The nation which indulges towards another an habitual hatred or an habitual fondness is in some degree a slave… to its animosity or to its affection, either of which is sufficient to lead it astray from its duty and its interest.
Size is not grandeur, and territory does not make a nation.
