We cannot hope to change a nation without facing trials and persecution in the process

When you see injustice among the nations, you will find out that the root cause is covetousnes.

A man though carrying God may be of no worth to himself, to his family, to his nation and to the people around him.

A nation may be said to consist of its territory, its people, and its laws. The territory is the only part which is of certain durability

We must recognize that every nation determines its policies in terms of its own interests.

A nation can be no stronger abroad than she is at home. Only an America which practices what it preaches about equal rights and social justice will be respected by those whose choice affects our future.

A nation reveals itself not only by the men it produces but also by the men it honors, the men it remembers.

We can afford to exercise the self-restraint of a really great nation which realizes its own strength and scorns to misuse it.

Energy in a nation is like sap in a tree; it rises from bottom up.

Growing nations should remember that, in nature, no tree, though placed in the best conditions of light, soil, and plot, can continue to grow and spread indefinitely.

Every country should realize that its turn at world domination, domination because its rights coincided more or less with the character or progress of the epoch, must terminate with the change brought about by this progress.

Size is not grandeur, and territory does not make a nation.

A nation without dregs and malcontents, is orderly, decent, peaceful and pleasant, but perhaps without the seed of things to come.

Men may be linked in friendship. Nations are linked only by interests.

Nothing is good for a nation but that which arises from its own core and its own general wants, without apish imitation of another.

The spirit of a nation is what counts-the look in its eyes.

There is a genius of a nation, which is not to be found in the numerical citizens, but which characterizes the society.

The quality of the thought differences the Egyptian and the Roman, the Austrian and the American.

A nation will not count the sacrifice it makes, if it supposes it is engaged in a struggle for its fame, its influence and its existence.

We travel by plane, oftener than not, and yet the spirit of our country [United States of America] seems to have remained a country of railroads.