<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Nations - Maxioms.com</title><description>Quotes, Famous Quotes, Sayings, Proverbs, Maxims, Axioms, Maxioms</description><link>http://www.maxioms.com</link><language>en-us</language><copyright>Copyright 2026 Maxioms.com. All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[No man is an island entire of itself; every man is a part of a continent, a part of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43734]]></link><description><![CDATA[No man is an island entire of itself; every man is a part of a continent, a part of the main; if a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy friends or of thine own were . . .]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43734</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The greatness of a nation can be judged by the way its animals are treated. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43735]]></link><description><![CDATA[The greatness of a nation can be judged by the way its animals are treated.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43735</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If nations could only depend upon fair and impartial judgments in a world court of law, they would abandon the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43736]]></link><description><![CDATA[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.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43736</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nations, like plants and human beings, grow. And if the development is thwarted they are dwarfed and overshadowed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43737]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nations, like plants and human beings, grow. And if the development is thwarted they are dwarfed and overshadowed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43737</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Among all nations there should be vast temples raised where people might worship in silence and listen to it, for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43739]]></link><description><![CDATA[Among all nations there should be vast temples raised where people might worship in silence and listen to it, for it is the voice of God]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43739</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I also wish that the Pledge of Allegiance were directed at the Constitution and the Bill of Rights, as it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43728]]></link><description><![CDATA[I also wish that the Pledge of Allegiance were directed at the Constitution and the Bill of Rights, as it is when the President takes his oath of office, rather than to the flag and the nation]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43728</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is such a thing as a nation being so right that it it does not need to convince others ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43729]]></link><description><![CDATA[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]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43729</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Democratic nations must try to find ways to starve the terrorist and the hijacker of the oxygen of publicity on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43730]]></link><description><![CDATA[Democratic nations must try to find ways to starve the terrorist and the hijacker of the oxygen of publicity on which they depend.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43730</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In all nations an exceptional man exists that compensates the deficiencies of the remainder. In those moments, when humanity is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43731]]></link><description><![CDATA[In all nations an exceptional man exists that compensates the deficiencies of the remainder. In those moments, when humanity is found collectively in a state of decadence, there always remain those exceptional beings as point of reference.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43731</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A national debt, if it is not excessive, will be to us a national blessing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43732]]></link><description><![CDATA[A national debt, if it is not excessive, will be to us a national blessing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43732</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A nation's life is about as long as its reverential memory ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43733]]></link><description><![CDATA[A nation's life is about as long as its reverential memory]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43733</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A nation can assume that the addition of the words "under God" to its pledge of allegiance gives evidence that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43724]]></link><description><![CDATA[A nation can assume that the addition of the words "under God" to its pledge of allegiance gives evidence that its citizens actually believe in God whereas all it really proves is that they believe in "believing" in God]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43724</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A nation reveals itself not only by the men it produces but also by the men it honors, the men ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43725]]></link><description><![CDATA[A nation reveals itself not only by the men it produces but also by the men it honors, the men it remembers]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43725</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No nation has friends only interests ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43726]]></link><description><![CDATA[No nation has friends only interests]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43726</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To poison a nation, poison its stories. A demoralised nation tells demoralised stories to itself. Beware of the storytellers who ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43727]]></link><description><![CDATA[To poison a nation, poison its stories. A demoralised nation tells demoralised stories to itself. Beware of the storytellers who are not fully conscious of the importance of their gifts, and who are irresponsible in the application of their art: they]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43727</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43719]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe, to assure the survival and success of liberty.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43719</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43720]]></link><description><![CDATA[By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43720</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Leave the matter of religion to the family altar, the church, and the private school, supported entirely by private contributions. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43721]]></link><description><![CDATA[Leave the matter of religion to the family altar, the church, and the private school, supported entirely by private contributions. Keep the church and state forever separate.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43721</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No one can terrorize a whole nation, unless we are all his accomplices. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43722]]></link><description><![CDATA[No one can terrorize a whole nation, unless we are all his accomplices.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43722</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bad men cannot make good citizens. It is when a people forget God that tyrants forge their chains. A vitiated ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43723]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bad men cannot make good citizens. It is when a people forget God that tyrants forge their chains. A vitiated state of morals, a corrupted public conscience, is incompatible with freedom. No free government, or the blessings of liberty, can be preserved to any people but by a firm adherence to justice, moderation, temperance, frugality, and virtue; and by a frequent recurrence to fundamental principles.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43723</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No nation is permitted to live in ignorance with impunity ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43710]]></link><description><![CDATA[No nation is permitted to live in ignorance with impunity]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43710</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We cannot expect that all nations will adopt like systems, for conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43711]]></link><description><![CDATA[We cannot expect that all nations will adopt like systems, for conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43711</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Of all nature's gifts to the human race, what is sweeter to a man than his children? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43712]]></link><description><![CDATA[Of all nature's gifts to the human race, what is sweeter to a man than his children?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43712</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A nation as a society forms a moral person, and every member of it is personally responsible for his society ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43713]]></link><description><![CDATA[A nation as a society forms a moral person, and every member of it is personally responsible for his society]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43713</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The decline of literature indicates the decline of a nation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43714]]></link><description><![CDATA[The decline of literature indicates the decline of a nation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43714</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[States that rise quickly, just as all the other things of nature that are born and grow rapidly, cannot have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43715]]></link><description><![CDATA[States that rise quickly, just as all the other things of nature that are born and grow rapidly, cannot have roots and ramifications; the first bad weather kills them]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43715</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A nation which has forgotten the quality of courage which in the past has been brought to public life is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43716]]></link><description><![CDATA[A nation which has forgotten the quality of courage which in the past has been brought to public life is not as likely to insist upon or regard that quality in its chosen leaders today - and in fact we have forgotten.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43716</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The world has never yet seen a truly great and virtuous nation because in the degradation of woman the very ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43717]]></link><description><![CDATA[The world has never yet seen a truly great and virtuous nation because in the degradation of woman the very fountains of life are poisoned at their source.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43717</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The world still consists of two clearly divided groups: the English and the foreigners. One group consists of less than ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43718]]></link><description><![CDATA[The world still consists of two clearly divided groups: the English and the foreigners. One group consists of less than 50 million people; the other of 3,950 million. The latter group does not really count.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43718</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is clear our nation is reliant upon big foreign oil. More and more of our imports come from overseas. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43706]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is clear our nation is reliant upon big foreign oil. More and more of our imports come from overseas.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43706</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Each nation feels superior to other nations. That breeds patriotism - and wars. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43707]]></link><description><![CDATA[Each nation feels superior to other nations. That breeds patriotism - and wars.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43707</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The nation will find it very hard to look up to the leaders who are keeping their ears to the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43708]]></link><description><![CDATA[The nation will find it very hard to look up to the leaders who are keeping their ears to the ground]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43708</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you want to study the social and political history of modern nations, study hell ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43709]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you want to study the social and political history of modern nations, study hell]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43709</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No matter how big a nation is, it is no stronger that its weakest people, and as long as you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41599]]></link><description><![CDATA[No matter how big a nation is, it is no stronger that its weakest people, and as long as you keep a person down, some part of you has to be down there to hold him down, so it means you cannot soar as you might otherwise]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41599</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Today, no walls can separate humanitarian or human rights crises in one part of the world from national security crises ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40207]]></link><description><![CDATA[Today, no walls can separate humanitarian or human rights crises in one part of the world from national security crises in another. What begins with the failure to uphold the dignity of one life all too often ends with a calamity for entire nations.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40207</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A nation which makes the final sacrifice for life and freedom does not get beaten ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39788]]></link><description><![CDATA[A nation which makes the final sacrifice for life and freedom does not get beaten]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39788</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can tell the ideals of a nation by its advertisements. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27739]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can tell the ideals of a nation by its advertisements.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27739</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I would rather belong to a poor nation that was free than to a rich nation that had ceased to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24737]]></link><description><![CDATA[I would rather belong to a poor nation that was free than to a rich nation that had ceased to be in love with liberty.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24737</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's important for us to explain to our nation that life is important. It's not only life of babies, but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22956]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's important for us to explain to our nation that life is important. It's not only life of babies, but it's life of children living in, you know, the dark dungeons of the Internet.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22956</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We estimate the wisdom of nations by seeing what they did with their surplus capital. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15688]]></link><description><![CDATA[We estimate the wisdom of nations by seeing what they did with their surplus capital.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15688</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The strength of a nation derives from the integrity of the home. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15160]]></link><description><![CDATA[The strength of a nation derives from the integrity of the home.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15160</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nations have recently been led to borrow billions for war; no nation has ever borrowed largely for education... no nation ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13417]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nations have recently been led to borrow billions for war; no nation has ever borrowed largely for education... no nation is rich enough to pay for both war and civilization. We must make our choice; we cannot have both.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13417</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cricket civilizes people and creates good gentlemen I want everyone to play cricket in Zimbabwe; I want ours to be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10630]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cricket civilizes people and creates good gentlemen I want everyone to play cricket in Zimbabwe; I want ours to be a nation of gentlemen]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10630</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm completely in favor of the separation of Church and State. My idea is that these two institutions screw us ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8656]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm completely in favor of the separation of Church and State. My idea is that these two institutions screw us up enough on their own, so both of them together is certain death.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8656</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We Americans live in a nation where the medical-care system is second to none in the world, unless you count ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2419]]></link><description><![CDATA[We Americans live in a nation where the medical-care system is second to none in the world, unless you count maybe 25 or 30 little scuzzball countries like Scotland that we could vaporize in seconds if we felt like it]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2419</guid></item></channel></rss>