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• One of the most basic principles for making and keeping peace within and between nations. . . is that in political, military, moral, and spiritual confrontations, there should be an honest attempt at the reconciliation of differences before resorting.

  Jimmy Carter

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Nations, Principles

• I had faith in Israel before it was established, I have in it now. I believe it has a glorious future before it – not just another sovereign nation, but as an embodiment of the great ideals of our civilization.

  Harry S. Truman

  Topics in Future

  Tags in Nations, Great, Faith

• It is sometimes necessary to lie damnably in the interests of the nation.

  Hilaire Belloc

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Nations, Necessary

• The nation which reposes on the pillow of political confidence, will sooner or later end its political existence in a deadly lethargy.

  James Madison Jr

  Tags in Nations

• 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.

  Vaclav Havel

  Tags in Autonomous, Nations

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

  Henry David Thoreau

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Nations, Wealth, Books

• You will find that the State is the kind of organization which, though it does big things badly, does small things badly, too.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Tags in Nations

• If the United Nations is to survive, those who represent it must bolster it; those who advocate it must submit to it; and those who believe in it must fight for it.

  Norman Cousins

  Topics in Belief

  Tags in Survival, Nations

• Every nation sincerely desires peace; and all nations pursue courses which if persisted in, must make peace impossible.

  Norman Angell

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Nations

• I think the British have the distinction above all other nations of being able to put new wine into old bottles without bursting them.

  Clement Attlee

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Think, Distinction, Nations

• Why are we, as a nation so obsessed with foreign things? Is it a legacy of our colonial years? We want foreign television sets. We want foreign shirts. We want foreign technology. Why this obsession with everything imported?

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

  Tags in Obsession, Nations

• We must think and act like a nation of a billion people and not like that of a million people. Dream, dream, dream!

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

  Topics in Dream

  Tags in Nations, Think, Like

• Tell me, why is the media here so negative? Why are we in India so embarrassed to recognise our own strengths, our achievements? We are such a great nation. We have so many amazing success stories but we refuse to acknowledge them. Why?

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

  Topics in Success

  Tags in Nations

• If a country is to be corruption free and become a nation of beautiful minds, I strongly feel there are three key societal members who can make a difference. They are the father, the mother and the teacher.

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Nations, Beautiful

• States that rise quickly, just as all the other things of nature that are born and grow rapidly, cannot have roots and ramifications; the first bad weather kills them.

  Niccolò Machiavelli

  Tags in Nations

• The business of the advertiser is to see that we go about our business with some magic spell or tune or slogan throbbing quietly in the background of our minds.Democratic nations must try to find ways to starve the terrorist and the hijacker of the oxygen of publicity on which they depend.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Tags in Nations, Advertising

• You can tell the ideals of a nation by its advertisements.

  Norman Douglas

  Topics in Ideals

  Tags in Advertising, Nations, Adversity

• All through history it’s the nations that have given most to generals and the least to the people that have been the first to fall

  Harry S. Truman

  Topics in History

  Tags in Nations