Quotes on Nations
Men may be linked in friendship. Nations are linked only by interests.
-- Rolf Hochhuth, The Soldiers
The first panacea for a mismanaged nation is inflation of the currency; the second is war. Both bring a temporary prosperity; both bring a permanent ruin. But both are the refuge of political and economic opportunists.
-- Ernest Hemingway, Notes on the Next War
I have no country to fight for: my country is the earth, and I am a citizen of the world.
-- Eugene V Debs