To have common glories in the past, a common will in the present; to have done great things together; to wish to do greater; these are the essential conditions which make up a people.
Nation Quotes
No nation is fit to sit in judgment upon any other nation.
It is not enough to limit your love to your own nation, to your own group. You must respond with love even to those outside of it… This concept enables people to live together not as nations, but as the human race.
A nation is a group of people united by a mistaken view about the past and a hatred of their neighbors.
There is such a thing as a nation being so right that it it does not need to convince others by force that it is right.
A nation reveals itself not only by the men it produces but also by the men it honors, by the men it remembers.
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.
The nation’s honor is dearer than the nation’s comfort; yes, than the nation’s life itself.
Nations are equal in respect to each other, and entitled to claim equal consideration for their rights, whatever may be their relative dimensions or strength or however greatly they may differ in government, religion or manners.
When a nation goes down, or a society perishes, one condition may always be found; they forgot where they came from. They lost sight of what had brought them along.
