A national debt, if it is not excessive, will be to us a national blessing.

A national debt, if it is not excessive, will be to us a national blessing.

If you want to study the social and political history of modern nations, study hell

If you want to study the social and political history of modern nations, study hell

The nation will find it very hard to look up to the leaders who are keeping their ears to the read more

The nation will find it very hard to look up to the leaders who are keeping their ears to the ground

We estimate the wisdom of nations by seeing what they did with their surplus capital.

We estimate the wisdom of nations by seeing what they did with their surplus capital.

A nation's life is about as long as its reverential memory

A nation's life is about as long as its reverential memory

Nations, like plants and human beings, grow. And if the development is thwarted they are dwarfed and overshadowed.

Nations, like plants and human beings, grow. And if the development is thwarted they are dwarfed and overshadowed.

There is such a thing as a nation being so right that it it does not need to convince others read more

There is such a thing as a nation being so right that it it does not need to convince others by force that it is right

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.

We cannot expect that all nations will adopt like systems, for conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy read more

We cannot expect that all nations will adopt like systems, for conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.