Some of the environmental lobbyists of the Western nations are the salt of the earth, but many of them are elitists.

I believe mutual respect for one another and cooperation should be the basis for relationships with foreign nations.

Interest does not tie nations together; it sometimes separates them. But sympathy and understanding does unite them.

It is a commonplace that the League of Nations is not yet-what its most enthusiastic protagonists intended it to be.

My attempt and prayer are and will be for an honorable peace between belligerent nations in the least possible time.

The United States is the most dishonest, ungodly, unspiritual nation that ever existed in the history of the planet.

I am deeply convinced that God is present both in the lives of every person and also in the lives of entire nations.

One can only imagine how Iranians or Afghans would deal with unelected judges moving to de-Islamicize their nations.

Someone has said that nations have interests, they don't have friends, and you see that over and over in U.S. policy.

There can never be peace between nations until there is first known that true peace which is within the souls of men.

We are asking the nations of Europe between whom rivers of blood have flowed to forget the feuds of a thousand years.

I cheated at the Model United Nations when I was 13 and had to get up and apologise in front of the whole conference.

Since I became Secretary-General, five years ago, I have seen youth participate at the United Nations as never before.

I felt vindicated that I decided to speak up for not only myself but women all across the nation who've been put down.

Pushing production out of America to nations without our environmental standards increases global environmental risks.

In this nation, the greatest of all nations, there are no second-class families. That is our great American conviction.

Fear brings out the best in some people and the worst in others. It's a test of character, for individuals and nations.

If you look at it, the history of comedy has always been strongest among the nations who have been persecuted the most.

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

The slightest acquaintance with history shows that powerful republics are the most warlike and unscrupulous of nations.

So long as war is the main business of nations, temporary despotism - despotism during the campaign - is indispensable.

The history of nations, in the sense in which I use the word, is often best studied in works not professedly historical.

Notoriously, the United States is the most religious of the Western advanced nations. It's a bit mysterious why that is.

This nation has never lived without independence. We cannot and shall not live without it. Either independence or death.

The WHO is the lead agency in health in the United Nations system, and clearly we have very important functions to play.

The United Nations has become a place where many countries seek to achieve a lynching of the United States by resolution.

The great armies, accumulated to provide security and preserve the peace, carried the nations to war by their own weight.

There is firm support in the Swedish society for the United Nations and, of course, for the Secretary-General Kofi Annan.

A society or a nation constructed nonviolently must be able to withstand attack upon its structure from without or within.

If the war has faded into history, democracy's defeat in Vietnam has left deep marks in the consciousness of both nations.

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.

The man of science, the artist, the philosopher are attached to their nations as much as the day-laborer and the merchant.

Nations with a common currency never went to war against each other. A common currency is more than the money you pay with.

We cannot expect that all nations will adopt like systems, for conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.

Great economies and great nations, prosperity, and abundance of nations and communities are created by men and not spirits.

Africa has been going through so much for so many years; it's time that it stands up the way other nations are standing up.

Every nation has a right to govern itself internally under what forms it pleases, and to change these forms at its own will.

America cannot continue to lead the family of nations around the world if we suffer the collapse of the family here at home.

We understand that America's prosperity is bound up with the prosperity of other nations, including emerging market nations.

A knowledgeable and courageous U.S. president could help enormously in leading the world's nations toward saving the climate.

With South East Asian nations, ASEAN countries, with some of them, we do have defence cooperation, and we continue with them.

History shows that nations are more fragile than their citizens think. No nation in history has survived the ravages of time.

Tell me how much a nation knows about its own language, and I will tell you how much that nation knows about its own identity.

No nation is so great as to be able to afford, in the long run, to remain outside an increasingly universal League of Nations.

Justice is the foremost virtue of the civilizing races. It subdues the barbarous nations, while injustice arouses the weakest.

The monuments of the nations are all protests against nothingness after death; so are statues and inscriptions; so is history.

Charm of personality is a divine gift that sways the strongest characters and sometimes even controls the destinies of nations.

We do not accept that ours will ever be a nation of haves and have-nots. We must always be a nation of haves and soon-to-haves.

Free nations are peaceful nations. Free nations don't attack each other. Free nations don't develop weapons of mass destruction.

For as long as multinational communities have existed, their weak point has always been the relations between different nations.

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