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| Den goda människan är vän med allt levande. | Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948) |
| Den som byter nationalitet är som en hund som lägger om sitt skall: inte att lita på. | James Michener (1907-1997) |
| Ett folk som värderar sina privilegier högre än sina principer mister snart båda delarna. | Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890-1969) |
| Fram till nationalstatens förfall på 19000talet utgjorde dess territorium för alla samhällsklasser en ersättning för det privatägda hemmet, som den fattiga klassen hade berövats. | Hannah Arendt (1906-1975) |
| Ingen kan terrorisera en hel nation, såvida vi alla inte är hans medbrottslingar. | Edward R. Murrow (1908-1965) |
| N ationalism är en barnsjukdom. Den är mänsklighetens mässling. | Albert Einstein (1879-1955) |
| N ationalism är kärlek ilandsformat. | Ruth Mayer |
| N ationalismen är en vattenstråle i vilken alla andra tankar förkalkas. | Karl Kraus (1874-1936) |
| Om en nation sätter någonting högre än friheten kommer den att mista sin frihet T och det ironiska är att om det är komfort eller pengar som den sätter högre så kommer den att mista det också. | William Somerset Maugham (1874-1965) |
| Se även Fosterland, Nationalism, Patriotism | Nationalism |
| Vi är dödsförskräckta för att kärleken till nästan ska breda ut sig för mycket och upprättar skrankor mot den: nationaliteterna. | Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach (1830-1916) |
| Hvor naturen dog er viseligt indrettet. Den sørger for, at selvom en mand tilsyneladende er nok så utiltalende, er der alligevel en kvinde der synes om ham. | Agatha Christie (1890-1976) |
| Torne er ikke til nogensomhelst nytte. Det er ren og skær ondskabsfuldhed fra blomsternes side | Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (1900-1944) |
| Ingenting går til spilde, ingenting skabes, alt forvandles. | Antoine Lavoisier (1743-1794) |
| Følelsen er den tanke, der er i bedst overenstemmelse med naturen. | Aristoteles (384 f.Kr.-322 f.Kr.) |
| I alle ting i naturen findes et vidunder. | Aristoteles (384 f.Kr.-322 f.Kr.) |
| Naturen gør aldrig noget overflødigt. | Aristoteles (384 f.Kr.-322 f.Kr.) |
| Kun 1,6 % af menneskets genetiske arvemasse er forskellig fra chimpansens, og det har dog taget naturen omkring 7 millioner år at udvikle og risikovurdere denne forskel | Bodil Søgaard |
| Naturen forbereder os på døden via alderdommen; den vækker så småt vores lede ved livet via sygdomme og kramper. Man ville dø utrøstelig, hvis alderen ikke havde sat sine spor | Drottning Kristina (1626-1689) |
| Bedre at lugte af hest end af hash. | Erhard Jacobsen |
| Vi kan ikke styre naturen på anden måde end at adlyde den | Francis Bacon (1909-1992) |
| Jeg tror på Gud, jeg staver det bare Naturen. | Frank Lloyd Wright (1867-1959) |
| En campingtur kræver et farve-TV og 358 kilometer forlængerledning. | James Abram Garfield (1831-1881) |
| Naturen er pragtfuld! - på video foran sengen. | James Abram Garfield (1831-1881) |
| I naturen er man altid ved Guds hjerte. | Hans Christian Andersen (1805-1875) |
| De uskyldige planter og dyr er givet i menneskets hånd af Gud, for at han kan elske dem og leve med dem som svagere søskende. | Hermann Hesse (1877-1962) |
| Ja vist gør det ondt, når knopper brister, hvorfor skulle våren ellers tøve. | Karin Boye (1900-1941) |
| Naturen skabte ham og slog siden støbeformen i stykker. | Ludovico Ariosto |
| En dag på Bakken er bedre end en bakke på cykel. | Ole Ritter |
| Naturen hader rette linjer: plump en firkant i vandet, og den svarer omgående som cylindriske ringe. | Ove Fahnøe |
| Når du har set ét fyrretræ, har du set dem alle. | Ronald Reagan (1911-2004) |
| Hvor en jæger lever, kan leve 10 hyrder, 100 agerdyrkere og 1000 gartnere. | Wilhelm von Humboldt (1767-1835) |
| De mellemøstlige stater er ikke nationer; de er stridigheder med grænser. | P. J. O'Rourke (1947-) |
| So that this nation may long endure, I urge you to follow in the hallowed footsteps of the great disobedience of history that freed exiles, founded religions, defeated tyrants, and yes, in the hands of an aroused rabble in arms and a few great men, | Charlton Heston (1924-) |
| The laws of a nation form the most instructive portion of its history | Edward Biggon |
| No nation has ever failed to prosper when its people put God first and their country second | Harold Lindsell |
| May the United Nations ever be vigilant and potent to defeat the swallowing up of any nation, at any time, by any means-by armies with banners, by force or by fraud, by tricks or by midnight treachery. | Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr. (1902-1985) |
| No modern nation has ever constructed a foreign policy that was acceptable to its intellectuals | Irving Kristol |
| Nations are equal in respect to each other, and entitled to claim equal consideration for their rights, whatever may be their relative dimensions or strength or however greatly they may differ in government, religion or manners | James Kent (1700-) |
| Small nations are like indecently dressed women. They tempt the evil-minded. | Julius K. Nyerere |
| A nation which makes the final sacrifice for life and freedom does not get beaten | Kemal Atatürk |
| A nation that cannot preserve itself ought to die, and it will die - die in the grasp of the evils it is too feeble to overthrow | Morris Sheppard |
| A nation is a totality of men united through community of fate into a community of character | Otto Bauer (1881-) |
| Historically, the host nations do well in Euro 2000. | Trevor Brooking (1948-) |
| A nation's life is about as long as its reverential memory | Whittaker Chambers (1901-) |
| A national debt, if it is not excessive, will be to us a national blessing. | Alexander Hamilton (1757-1804) |
| No nation has friends only interests | Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970) |
| By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation. | Edmund Burke (1729-1797) |
| United Nations: Where America feeds the hands that bite it | Gregory Nunn |
| Any nation that can survive what we have lately in the way of government, is on the high road to permanent glory. | Molly Ivins (1944-) |
| The great nations have always acted like gangsters, and the small nations like prostitutes | Stanley Kubrick (1928-1999) |
| A nation is a society united by a delusion about its ancestry and by common hatred of its neighbours. | William Ralph Inge (1860-1954) |
| We Americans live in a nation where the medical-care system is second to none in the world, unless you count maybe 25 or 30 little scuzzball countries like Scotland that we could vaporize in seconds if we felt like it | Dave Barry (1947-) |
| A nation which makes the final sacrifice for life and freedom does not get beaten | Kemal Atatürk |
| No nation is permitted to live in ignorance with impunity | Thomas Jefferson (1762-1826) |
| We cannot expect that all nations will adopt like systems, for conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth. | John Fitzgerald Kennedy (1917-1963) |
| Each nation feels superior to other nations. That breeds patriotism - and wars. | Dale Carnegie (1888-1955) |
| The decline of literature indicates the decline of a nation. | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832) |
| I'm completely in favor of the separation of Church and State. My idea is that these two institutions screw us up enough on their own, so both of them together is certain death. | George Carlin (1937-) |
| The nation will find it very hard to look up to the leaders who are keeping their ears to the ground | Winston Churchill (1874-1965) |
| In a republican nation, whose citizens are to be led by reason and persuasion and not by force, the art of reasoning becomes of first importance | Thomas Jefferson (1762-1826) |
| The strength of a nation derives from the integrity of the home. | Konfucius (555 f.Kr.-479 f.Kr.) |
| No modern nation has ever constructed a foreign policy that was acceptable to its intellectuals | Irving Kristol |
| I would rather belong to a poor nation that was free than to a rich nation that had ceased to be in love with liberty. | Woodrow T. Wilson (1856-1924) |
| Leave the matter of religion to the family altar, the church, and the private school, supported entirely by private contributions. Keep the church and state forever separate. | General Ulysses S. Grant (1822-1885) |
| We cannot expect that all nations will adopt like systems, for conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth. | John Fitzgerald Kennedy (1917-1963) |
| It's important for us to explain to our nation that life is important. It's not only life of babies, but it's life of children living in, you know, the dark dungeons of the Internet. | George W. Bush (1946-) |
| A nation as a society forms a moral person, and every member of it is personally responsible for his society | Thomas Jefferson (1762-1826) |
| A nation can assume that the addition of the words "under God" to its pledge of allegiance gives evidence that its citizens actually believe in God whereas all it really proves is that they believe in "believing" in God | Huston Smith |
| Nations have recently been led to borrow billions for war; no nation has ever borrowed largely for education... no nation is rich enough to pay for both war and civilization. We must make our choice; we cannot have both. | Abraham Flexner |
| I have always given it as my decided opinion that no nation had a right to intermeddle in the internal concerns of another; that every one had a right to form and adopt whatever government they liked best to live under themselves; and that, if this c | George Washington (1732-1799) |
| No nation has friends only interests | Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970) |
| Texas does not, like any other region, simply have indigenous dishes. It proclaims them. It congratulates you, on your arrival, at having escaped from the slop pails of the other 49 states. | Alistair Cooke (1908-2004) |
| Remember where you came from. | Donald Rumsfeld (1932-) |
| The laws of a nation form the most instructive portion of its history | Edward Biggon |
| A trait no other nation seems to possess in quite the same degree as we do namely, a feeling of almost childish injury and resentment unless the world as a whole recognizes how innocent we are of anything but the most generous and harmless intentions | Eleanor Roosevelt (1884-1962) |
| A nation without dregs and malcontents, is orderly, decent, peaceful and pleasant, but perhaps without the seed of things to come | Eric Hoffer (1902-1983) |
| A nation, like a person, has a mind - a mind that must be kept informed and alert, that must know itself, that understands the hopes and needs of its neighbors - all the other nations that live within the narrowing circle of the world | Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882-1945) |
| I was determined that no British government should be brought down by the action of two tarts. | Harold Macmillan (1894-1986) |
| May the United Nations ever be vigilant and potent to defeat the swallowing up of any nation, at any time, by any means-by armies with banners, by force or by fraud, by tricks or by midnight treachery. | Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr. (1902-1985) |
| It is well to remember that the office of Chief Executive is in part a symbol of the nation and that leaders in a nation may differ in their own house but they have instant solidarity in the presence of foreign attack | Herbert Hoover (1874-1964) |
| It is sometimes necessary to lie damnably in the interests of the nation | Hilaire Belloc |
| The nation which reposes on the pillow of political confidence, will sooner or later end its political existence in a deadly lethargy | James Madison (1751-1836) |
| A nation which has forgotten the quality of courage which in the past has been brought to public life is not as likely to insist upon or regard that quality in its chosen leaders today - and in fact we have forgotten. | John Fitzgerald Kennedy (1917-1963) |
| You will find that the State is the kind of organization which, though it does big things badly, does small things badly, too. | John Kenneth Galbraith (1908-) |
| From hence, let fierce contending nations know, What dire effects from civil discord flow | Joseph Addison (1672-1719) |
| A nation which makes the final sacrifice for life and freedom does not get beaten | Kemal Ataturk |
| I am going to build the kind of nation that President Roosevelt hoped for, President Truman worked for, and President Kennedy died for. | Lyndon B. Johnson (1908-1973) |
| States that rise quickly, just as all the other things of nature that are born and grow rapidly, cannot have roots and ramifications; the first bad weather kills them | Niccolò Machiavelli (1469-1527) |
| The repose of nations cannot be secure without arms, armies cannot be maintained without pay, nor can the pay be produced without taxes | Publius Cornelius Tacitus (55-117) |
| If you want to study the social and political history of modern nations, study hell | Thomas Merton (1915-1968) |