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“National armies fight nations, royal armies fight their like; the first obey a mob, always demented, and the second a king, generally sane”. –J.F.C. Fuller

“I have unwittingly ruined my country. A great industrial nation is controlled by its system of credit. Our system of credit is concentrated in the hands of a few men. We have come to be one of the worst ruled, one of the most completely controlled and dominated governments in the world… no longer a government of free opinion, no longer a government by conviction and vote of the majority, but a government by the opinion and duress of small groups of dominant men”. –Woodrow Wilson

“In relations with other nations, there is neither right nor wrong; there is only strength and weakness”. –Roman Dmowski

“It goes without saying that when survival is threatened, struggles erupt between peoples, and unfortunate wars between nations result”. –Hideki Tojo

“A nation regenerates itself only upon heaps of corpses”. –Honoré Mirabeau

“We do not have time to wait for the enlightenment of our neighbors so that we can work together toward the development of Asia. It is better for us to leave the ranks of Asian nations and cast our lot with civilized nations of the West… We should deal with them exactly as Westerners do”. –Fukuzawa Yukichi

“A good government may, indeed, redress the grievances of an injured people; but a strong people can alone build up a great nation”. –Thomas Francis Meagher

“I ever will profess myself the greatest friend to those whose actions best correspond with their doctrine; which, I am sorry to say, is too seldom the case amongst those nations who pretend most to civilization”. –J.G. Stedman

“By appointing Hitler Chancellor of the Reich, you have handed over our sacred German Fatherland to one of the greatest demagogues of all time. I prophesy to you this evil man will plunge our Reich into the abyss and will inflict immeasurable woe on our nation. Future generations will curse you in your grave for this action”. –Erich Ludendorff

“I am concerned for the security of our great Nation; not so much because of any threat from without, but because of the insidious forces working from within”. –Douglas MacArthur

“It is the habit of every aggressor nation to claim that it is acting on the defensive”. –Jawaharlal Nehru

“Justice, sir, is the great interest of man on Earth. It is the ligament which holds civilized beings and civilized nations together”. –Daniel Webster

“The great nations have always acted like gangsters, and the small nations like prostitutes”. –Stanley Kubrick