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No matter how big a nation is, it is no stronger that its weakest people, and as long as you read more
No matter how big a nation is, it is no stronger that its weakest people, and as long as you keep a person down, some part of you has to be down there to hold him down, so it means you cannot soar as you might otherwise
Today, no walls can separate humanitarian or human rights crises in one part of the world from national security crises read more
Today, no walls can separate humanitarian or human rights crises in one part of the world from national security crises in another. What begins with the failure to uphold the dignity of one life all too often ends with a calamity for entire nations.
Each nation feels superior to other nations. That breeds patriotism - and wars.
Each nation feels superior to other nations. That breeds patriotism - and wars.
No nation is permitted to live in ignorance with impunity
No nation is permitted to live in ignorance with impunity
By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation.
By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation.
Cricket civilizes people and creates good gentlemen I want everyone to play cricket in Zimbabwe; I want ours to be read more
Cricket civilizes people and creates good gentlemen I want everyone to play cricket in Zimbabwe; I want ours to be a nation of gentlemen
Bad men cannot make good citizens. It is when a people forget God that tyrants forge their chains. A vitiated read more
Bad men cannot make good citizens. It is when a people forget God that tyrants forge their chains. A vitiated state of morals, a corrupted public conscience, is incompatible with freedom. No free government, or the blessings of liberty, can be preserved to any people but by a firm adherence to justice, moderation, temperance, frugality, and virtue; and by a frequent recurrence to fundamental principles.
No man is an island entire of itself; every man is a part of a continent, a part of the read more
No man is an island entire of itself; every man is a part of a continent, a part of the main; if a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy friends or of thine own were . . .
If nations could only depend upon fair and impartial judgments in a world court of law, they would abandon the read more
If nations could only depend upon fair and impartial judgments in a world court of law, they would abandon the senseless, savage practice of war.
