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All the nations they had to deal with, had the same fate.

I was paid to read Western economic texts. In a way, the regime paid for their own undermining.

When you have a country that's been accustomed to government spending at a certain level, it is really hard to ratchet it back.

Nations have always good reasons for being what they are, and the best of all is that they cannot be otherwise.

Many nations are like rebellious teenagers who try to figure out just how many times they can kick us in the teeth while still taking our money.

As nations can not be rewarded or punished in the next world they must be in this.

All governments, the worst on earth, and the most tyrannical on earth, are free governments to that portion of the people who voluntarily support them.

In recent times, European nations, with the use of gunpowder and other technical improvements in warfare, controlled practically the whole world. One, the British Empire, brought under one government a quarter of the earth and its inhabitants.

Countries only have certain opportunities in history, and if you do not take advantage of them, those opportunities don't ever come back to you again.

Peace and commerce with foreign nations could be more effectually and cheaply cultivated by a common agent; therefore they gave the Federal Government the sole management of our relations with foreign governments.