Nation's Fate Quotes

Defeat [in World War II] was better for the nation than if we had become extremely militaristic as a result of victory.

Happy is the nation without a history.

. . . unless there comes to the Nation a greater emancipation than Lincoln's Proclamation effected, it is doomed, it is bound to go down.

The fate of a nation depends on the way that they eat.

The doom of a nation can be averted only by a storm of flowing passion, but only those who are passionate themselves can arouse passion in others.

What happens today or tomorrow is of little consequence. The tendencies of a nation are all that count.

[The] events by which the fate of nations is not materially changed, leave a faint impression on the page of history, and the patience of the reader would be exhausted by the repetition of the same hostilities [between Rome and Persia], undertaken without cause, prosecuted without glory, and terminated without effect.

The destiny of nations depends on how they nourish themselves.

No nation can anticipate its term, nor delay it.

A marvel that has nothing to offer, democracy is at once a nation's paradise and its tomb.

Now, at the end of three years struggle the nation's condition is not what either party, or any man devised, or expected. God alone can claim it.

Your behavior determines, to some extent, the destiny of your nation and your group.