Just as a man would not cherish living in a body other than his own, so do nations not like to live under other nations, however noble and great the latter may be.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Nations have always good reasons for being what they are, and the best of all is that they cannot be otherwise.
No one can live entirely on their own, nor can any country or society exist in isolation.
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.
Each nation feels superior to other nations. That breeds patriotism - and wars.
Outside the kingdom of the Lord there is no nation which is greater than any other. God and history will remember your judgment.
No nation is so great as to be able to afford, in the long run, to remain outside an increasingly universal League of Nations.
A nation is the same people living in the same place.
A nation is a totality of men united through community of fate into a community of character.
My native land is a slave of heathenism, men's god is their belly, and they live only for the present. The richer a man, the holier.
Nations, like individuals in a state of nature, are equal and independent, possessing certain rights and owing certain duties to each other.