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.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Nations it may be have fashioned their Governments, but the Governments have paid them back in the same coin.
As nations can not be rewarded or punished in the next world they must be in this.
Most nations, as well as people are impossible only in their youth; they become incorrigible as they grow older.
Nations have always good reasons for being what they are, and the best of all is that they cannot be otherwise.
Money, again, has often been a cause of the delusion of the multitudes. Sober nations have all at once become desperate gamblers, and risked almost their existence upon the turn of a piece of paper.
This nation is like a spring freshet; it overruns its banks and destroys all who are in its path.
The great nations have always acted like gangsters, and the small nations like prostitutes.
Nations, like individuals, are punished for their transgressions.
Men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all the other alternatives.
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.