#nations

Empires do not suffer emptiness of purpose at the time of their creation. It is when they have become established that aims are lost and replaced by vague ritual. ↗

— Frank Herbert

#nations #politics #creation

It's quite extraordinary to hear a supposedly learned person call the United States a leading terrorist nation, one of the leading terrorist nations in the world. It's false and very treacherous teaching. ↗

— Bill Bennett

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Criticism and pessimism destroy families, undermine institutions of all kinds, defeat nearly everyone, and spread a shroud of gloom over entire nations. ↗

— Gordon B. Hinckley

#defeat #destroy #entire #everyone #families

Science is not a game in which arbitrary rules are used to decide what explanations are to be permitted. ↗

— Michael Behe

#decide #explanations #game #permitted #rules

Money speaks sense in a language all nations understand. ↗

— Aphra Behn

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Free nations are peaceful nations. Free nations don't attack each other. Free nations don't develop weapons of mass destruction. ↗

— George W. Bush

#destruction #develop #each #free #free nations

We have helped to organize the United Nations. We believe it will stop aggressor nations from starting wars. Because we believe it, we intend to support the United Nations organization with all the power and resources we possess. ↗

— James F. Byrnes

#because #believe #helped #intend #nations

The day of small nations has long passed away. The day of Empires has come. ↗

— Joseph Chamberlain

#away #come #day #empires #long

Now, do I think there has to be shared sacrifice among other nations in the world who want a stable and secure world? Absolutely, there has to be. But I don't think that America can ever abdicate its leadership role in the world because of who we are and where we've come from. We are the symbol for the world for freedom and liberty. ↗

— Chris Christie

#absolutely #america #among #because #come

I have an independent record label called Favored Nations on which I released an album by an artist called Johnny A, who plays an arch top Gibson through a Marshall, but the tone is all in his fingers. ↗

— Steve Vai

#arch #artist #called #favored #fingers