Nations have recently been led to borrow billions for war; no nation has ever borrowed largely for education... no nation is rich enough to pay for both war and civilization. We must make our choice; we cannot have both. (Quote by - Abraham Flexner)

A nation is the same people living in the same place. (Quote by - James Joyce)

From hence, let fierce contending nations know, What dire effects from civil discord flow. (Quote by - Joseph Addison)

Nations have always good reasons for being what they are, and the best of all is that they cannot be otherwise. (Quote by - Marquis De Custine)

The nation which reposes on the pillow of political confidence, will sooner or later end its political existence in a deadly lethargy. (Quote by - James Madison)

There is nothing that strengthens a nation like reading of a nation's own history, whether that history is recorded in books or embodied in customs, institutions and monuments. (Quote by - Joseph Anderson)

He who controls the money supply of a nation controls the nation. (Quote by - James A. Garfield)

In a republican nation, whose citizens are to be led by reason and persuasion and not by force, the art of reasoning becomes of first importance. (Quote by - Thomas Jefferson)

A nation which has forgotten the quality of courage which in the past has been brought to public life is not as likely to insist upon or regard that quality in its chosen leaders today - and in fact we have forgotten. (Quote by - John Fitzgerald Kennedy)

Each nation feels superior to other nations. That breeds patriotism - and wars. (Quote by - Dale Carnegie)

A nation is a totality of men united through community of fate into a community of character. (Quote by - Otto Bauer)

There was never a nation that became great until it came to the knowledge that it had nowhere in the world to go for help. (Quote by - Charles Dudley Warner)

Poor nations are hungry, and rich nations are proud; and pride and hunger will ever be at variance. (Quote by - Jonathan Swift )

A nation as a society forms a moral person, and every member of it is personally responsible for his society. (Quote by - Thomas Jefferson)

I would rather belong to a poor nation that was free than to a rich nation that had ceased to be in love with liberty. (Quote by - Woodrow T. Wilson )

Men may be linked in friendship. Nations are linked only by interests. (Quote by - Rolf Hochhuth)

A nation reveals itself not only by the men it produces but also by the men it honors, the men it remembers. (Quote by - John Fitzgerald Kennedy)

A nation may lose its liberties in a day and not miss them in a century. (Quote by - Charles de Montesquieu)

There was never a nation great until it came to the knowledge that it had nowhere in the world to go for help. (Quote by - Charles Dudley Warner)

The nation will find it very hard to look up to the leaders who are keeping their ears to the ground. (Quote by - Winston Churchill)

Men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all the other alternatives. (Quote by - Abba Eban )

Most nations, as well as people are impossible only in their youth; they become incorrigible as they grow older. (Quote by - Jean Jacques Rousseau )

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. (Quote by - Harry S Truman)

The world has never yet seen a truly great and virtuous nation because in the degradation of woman the very fountains of life are poisoned at their source. (Quote by - Lucretia Mott)

A national debt, if it is not excessive, will be to us a national blessing. (Quote by - Alexander Hamilton)