The direct use of force is such a poor solution to any problem, it is generally employed only by small children and large nations.
—David Friedman
It might be a good idea if the various countries of the world would occasionally swap history books, just to see what other people are doing with the same set of facts.
—Bill Vaughan
A nation is a society united by delusions about its ancestry and by common hatred of its neighbors.
—William Ralph Inge
Every nation ridicules other nations, and all are right.
—Arthur Schopenhauer
"Every nation ridicules other nations, and all are right.
—Arthur Schopenhauer
The great nations have always acted like gangsters, and the small nations like prostitutes.
—Stanley Kubrick
We estimate the wisdom of nations by seeing what they did with their surplus capital.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson
The average age of the world's greatest civilizations has been two hundred years. These nations have progressed through this sequence: From bondage to spiritual faith; from spiritual faith to great courage; from courage to liberty; from liberty to abundance; from abundance to selfishness; from selfishness to complacency; from complacency to apathy; from apathy to dependence and back into bondage.
—Fraser Tyler
Probably no nation is rich enough to pay for both war and civilization. We must make our choice; we cannot have both.
—Abraham Flexner
Every nation ridicules other nations, and all are right.
—Arthur Schopenhauer