Each particular society begins to feel its strength, whence arises a state of war between different nations.
Men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all the other alternatives.
America is the only country capable of producing national movies: its culture has become a global culture.
We have now recently launched the national integrity plan.
Nationalism is an infantile thing. It is the measles of mankind.
No king establishes a kingdom without pouring blood of a nation.
There is one thing in the life of men,nations and states which is priceless-honour.
I think as Christians we have to sponsor a national Lighten-Up Day.
India is a geographical term. It is no more a united nation than the Equator.
Fences work and the walls work and separations work. They afford to any nation the delay of entry.
The rise of National Socialism is the protest of a people against a State that denies the right to work.
When I was growing up, you didn't know there was a women's national team. Now girls grow up dreaming of playing for Canada.
We are at war, and our security as a nation depends on winning that war.
Few would venture to deny the advantages of temperance in increasing the efficiency of a nation at war.
Thus the great civilizer sends out its emissaries, sooner or later, to every sandy cape and light-house of the New World which the census-taker visits, and summons the savage there to surrender.
It is impossible to escape the impression that people commonly use false standards of measurement — that they seek power, success and wealth for themselves and admire them in others, and that they underestimate what is of true value in life.
Must the citizen ever for a moment, or in the least degree, resigns his conscience to the legislator? Why has every man a conscience then? I think that we should be men first, and subjects afterward.
The bacteriologist, often risking his life to find cures for lethal afflictions, was another kind of imperial hero, as brave in his way as the soldier-explorer.
After 1968 the restored communist regime required all Czech rock musicians to sit a written exam in Marxism Leninism
Who killed Christianity in Europe? Was it, as (Max) Weber himself predicted, that the spirit of capitalism was bound to destroy the Protestant ethic parents, as materialism corrupted the original aestheticism of the godly?
The real social contract, (Edmund Burke) argued, was not Rousseau's social contract between the noble savage and the General Will, but a "partnership" between the present generation and future generations.
