I cannot lead you into battle. I do not give you laws or administer justice but I can do something else I can give my heart and my devotion to these old islands and to all the peoples of our brotherhood of nations.
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A good newspaper, I suppose, is a nation talking to itself.
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A love of tradition has never weakened a nation, indeed it has strengthened nations in their hour of peril but the new view must come, the world must roll forward.
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The nation which forgets its defenders will be itself forgotten.
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An association of men who will not quarrel with one another is a thing which has never yet existed, from the greatest confederacy of nations down to a town meeting or a vestry.
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Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations entangling alliances with none.
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The men who create power make an indispensable contribution to the Nations greatness, but the men who question power make a contribution just as indispensable, especially when that questioning is disinterested, for they determine whether we use power or power uses us.
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You despise books you whose lives are absorbed in the vanities of ambition, the pursuit of pleasure or indolence but remember that all the known world, excepting only savage nations, is governed by books.
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The Christian cannot be satisfied so long as any human activity is either opposed to Christianity or out of connection with Christianity. Christianity must pervade not merely all nations but also all of human thought.
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Few nations have been so poor as to have but one god. Gods were made so easily, and the raw material cost so little, that generally the god market was fairly glutted and heaven crammed with these phantoms.
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Did you know that every two hours the nations of this world spend as much on armaments as they spend on the children of this world every year
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And He shall judge among the nations, and shall rebuke many people and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.
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No nation was ever ruined by trade.
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As long as there are sovereign nations possessing great power, war is inevitable.
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The health of nations is more important than the wealth of nations.
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Govern a great nation as you would cook a small fish. Do not overdo it.
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Great nations write their autobiographies in three manuscriptsthe book of their deeds, the book of their words and the book of their art.
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Peace is not a relationship of nations. It is a condition of mind brought about by a serenity of soul. Peace is not merely the absence of war. It is also a state of mind. Lasting peace can come only to peaceful people.
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No one can terrorize a whole nation, unless we are all his accomplices.
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The test of maturity, for nations as well as individuals, is not the increase of power, but in the increase of self, self, self direction, and self transcendence. For in a mature society, man himself and not his machines or his organizations is the chief work of art.
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A war for a great principle ennobles a nation. A war for commercial supremacy, upon some shallow pretext, is despicable, and more than aught else demonstrates to what immeasurable depths of baseness men and nations can descend.
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Justice, sir, is the great interest of man on earth. It is the ligament which holds civilized beings and civilized nations together.
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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
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It is the habit of every aggressor nation to claim that it is acting on the defensive.
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Publicity is a great purifier because it sets in action the forces of public opinion, and in this country public opinion controls the courses of the nation.
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