Nation States

Famous quotes containing the words nation and/or states:

    “What a wise and good parent will desire for his own children a nation must desire for all children.”
    —Consultative Committee On The Prima. Report of the Consultative Committee on the Primary School (HADOW)

    “The city of Washington is in some respects self-contained, and it is easy there to forget what the rest of the United States is thinking about. I count it a fortunate circumstance that almost all the windows of the White House and its offices open upon unoccupied spaces that stretch to the banks of the Potomac ... and that as I sit there I can constantly forget Washington and remember the United States.”
    —Woodrow Wilson (1856–1924)