Nations have always good reasons for being what they are, and the best of all is that they cannot be otherwise.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Nations, like individuals in a state of nature, are equal and independent, possessing certain rights and owing certain duties to each other.
People are people the world over. Some are good, some bad, some greedy and some generous. Nations are like people and act the same way.
Nations have their ego, just like individuals.
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.
Nations, great nations have limitations. All nations have limitations. Even great powers have limitations.
Each nation feels superior to other nations. That breeds patriotism - and wars.
It has been said that a nation reveals its character by the values it upholds.
All nations are more tolerant of their own mistakes and weaknesses than of the mistakes and weaknesses of others.
No nation is so great as to be able to afford, in the long run, to remain outside an increasingly universal League of Nations.
There was never a nation great until it came to the knowledge that it had nowhere in the world to go for help.
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