"Every nation criticizes every other one - and they are all correct."
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"The good ruler sublimates his needs as an individual to the service of the nation."
"Peace as a goal is an ideal which will not be contested by any government or nation, not even the most belligerent."
"We do not covet anything from any nation except their respect."
"The most advanced nations are always those who navigate the most."
"It is not what we have that will make us a great nation; it is the way in which we use it."
"No nation has ever benefited from a prolonged war."
"Save the child and you save the nation."
"Our nation is turning into an idiocracy."
"All free peoples are deeply impressed by the courage and steadfastness of the Greek nation."
"For total greed, rapacity, heartlessness, and irresponsibility there is nothing to match a nation."
"Righteousness exalteth a nation."
"As a nation, we have never embraced aging."
"The nationalist has a broad hatred and a narrow love."
"If people behaved in the same way nations do they would all be put in straitjackets."
"A Nation's best defense is an educated citizenry"
"The advance and perfecting of mathematics are closely joined to the prosperity of the nation."
"Nonviolent nationalism is a necessary condition of corporate or civilized life."
"Between the two, the nationalist and the imperialist, there is no meeting ground."
"As it is with an individual, so it is with a nation. One must produce to have, or one will become a have-not."