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I have always been vitally interested in physical conditioning. I have long believed that athletic competition among people and nations should replace violence and wars.

Johnny Weissmuller

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If Germany, thanks to Hitler and his successors, were to enslave the European nations and destroy most of the treasures of their past, future historians would certainly pronounce that she had civilized Europe.

Justice, sir, is the great interest of man on earth. It is the ligament which holds civilized beings and civilized nations together.

Other nations use 'force'; we Britons alone use 'Might'.

Evelyn Waugh

Nations

Observe good faith and justice toward all nations. Cultivate peace and harmony with all.

The love of domination and an uncontrolled lust of arbitrary power have prevailed among all nations and perhaps in proportion to the degrees of civilization.

Lasting peace and security in Iraq and Afghanistan will be achieved when we establish the conditions for democratic, economically viable nations.

Now, the United Nations is an organization that I believe was founded with good intentions. As a matter of fact, a prominent Tennessean named Cordell Hull was very involved with it.

The United Nations has become a place where many countries seek to achieve a lynching of the United States by resolution.

The monuments of the nations are all protests against nothingness after death; so are statues and inscriptions; so is history.

A fascist is one whose lust for money or power is combined with such an intensity of intolerance toward those of other races, parties, classes, religions, cultures, regions or nations as to make him ruthless in his use of deceit or violence to attain his ends.

The hope of the nation which throughout the nineteenth century had not for a moment reconciled itself with the loss of independence, and fighting for its own freedom, fought at the same time for the freedom of other nations.

The United Nations has no business in our elections.

It is true that men themselves made this world of nations... but this world without doubt has issued from a mind often diverse, at times quite contrary, and always superior to the particular ends that men had proposed to themselves.

So far as it depends on the course of this government, our relations of good will and friendship will be sedulously cultivated with all nations.