“Nothing is more essential to the future peace of the world than continued cooperation of the nations which had to muster the force necessary to defeat the conspiracy of the Axis powers to dominate the world.”— Harry S Truman, trumanlibrary.org
“No nation on this globe should be more internationally minded than America because it was built by all nations.”— Harry S Truman, amazon.com
“Everything in every way has been begun and completed and then forgotten over and over, in this world, — to be begun and completed and forgotten again, and so on to the end of the chapter. No one nation is better than another in this respect, — there is, there can be nothing new.”— Marie Corelli, amazon.com
“Will it not be wise to allow the friendship between nations to rest upon deep and permanent things? Irritations of the cuticle must not be confounded with heart failure.”— Benjamin Harrison, amazon.com
“Much has been given us, and much will rightfully be expected from us. We have duties to others and duties to ourselves; and we can shirk neither. We have become a great nation, forced by the fact of its greatness into relations with the other nations of the earth, and we must behave as be seen as a…”— Theodore Roosevelt, millercenter.org
“Character, in the long run, is the decisive factor in the life of an individual and of nations alike.”— Theodore Roosevelt, books.google.com
“The nation behaves well if it treats its natural resources as assets which it must turn over to the next generation increased and not impaired in value.”— Theodore Roosevelt, theodorerooseveltcenter.org
“It is true of the Nation, as of the individual, that the greatest doer must also be a great dreamer. Of course, if the dream is not followed by action, then it is a bubble; it has merely served to divert the man from doing something.”— Theodore Roosevelt, theodorerooseveltcenter.org
“This country will not be a good place for any of us to live in if it is not a reasonably good place for all of us to live in.”— Theodore Roosevelt, theodorerooseveltcenter.org
“Is America a weakling, to shrink from the work of the great world powers? No! The young giant of the West stands on a continent and clasps the crest of an ocean in either hand. Our nation, glorious in youth and strength, looks into the future with eager eyes and rejoices as a strong man to run a rac…”— Theodore Roosevelt, theodorerooseveltcenter.org
“Texas will again lift it's head and stand among the nations. It ought to do so, for no country upon the globe can compare with it in natural advantages.”— Sam Houston, famoustexans.com
“Nations, like individuals in a state of nature, are equal and independent, possessing certain rights and owing certain duties to each other….”— Millard Filmore, books.google.com