95 Metaphors for nations

May the Germans and ourselves be now marching towards the horrors of a world-war merely because 'nation' and 'empire' like 'Homoousia' and 'Homoiousia' are the best that we can do in making entities of the mind to stand between us and an unintelligible universe, and because having made such entities our sympathies are shut up within them?

I may not deny but that this nation of ours, doth bene audire apud exteros, is a most noble, a most flourishing kingdom, by common consent of all geographers, historians, politicians, 'tis unica velut arx, and which Quintius in Livy said of the inhabitants of Peloponnesus, may be well applied to us, we are testudines testa sua inclusi, like so many tortoises in our shells, safely defended by an angry sea, as a wall on all sides.

He would be helping, if he obeyed and trusted God, to advance his country's prosperity; to insure her success in war and peace, to raise the name and fame of the Jewish people among all the nations round, that all might say, 'Surely this great nation is a wise and an understanding people.'

That nation is the greatest which seeks to reduce, rather than augment, forces which prey upon its resources and which are a perpetual menace.

The nation was 'the intermediate term between humanity and the individual,'[106] and man could only attain to the conception of humanity by picturing it to himself as a mosaic of homogeneous nations.

Of what nation are these colonists?

In general, therefore, a nation is simply a nationality which has acquired self-government; it is nationality plus State.

It is, that the oppressed nations of Europe become the masters of their future, free to regulate their own domestic concerns.

The splendid dream is still far from being realized; yet it seems as if any nation could become Utopia in a single generation, so simple and just are the requirements.

Free nations from the obligations which bind individuals, and the world would be an anarchy.

"This nation is an enigma, whose import no man as yet may fully know.

If all the nations could be republics!...

This Christian nation is the foremost for missions.

Those nations are the most hardy and enduring whose dietary is most simple.

The nation of the Suevi is by far the largest and the most warlike nation of all the Germans.

The nation became a community, united in a single purpose; breaches which many imagined to be permanent, cleavages which were thought to be fundamental, no longer existed.

They knew that the world is governed less by sympathy than by reason and force; that it was not possible for this nation to become a "propagandist" of free principles without arraying against it the combined powers of Europe, and that the result was more likely to be the overthrow of republican liberty here than its establishment there.

that Russia might be a great power: and that it may be so Constantinople is necessary, because no nation can be a great power which is not a maritime power.

And indeed, to oppose or to abandon the cause I plead, only because I mix not with the agitation of an interior question, is a greater injustice yet, because to discuss the question of foreign policy I have a right,my nation is an object of that policy; we are interested in it;but to mix with interior party movements I have no right, not being a citizen of the United States.

Why, then, should it seem so very unlikely that whole nations were strangers to such love (as they were strangers to the higher religious sentiment), even though they were as intelligent as the Greeks and Romans?

Honoured Sir, 'Having heard that this Nation is a great Encourager of Ingenuity, I have brought with me a Rope-dancer that was caught in one of the Woods belonging to the Great Mogul.

" "Well, but," said Percy, with a few slight hesitations, "not to t-take an interest in c-coal is not to take an interest in the n-nation, for this n-nation is g-great, not by its p-powerful fleet, nor its little b-b-bit of an army" A snort from the Colonel.

Your nation is the cause, he said, of all the importunities I now suffer from the English.

'Nations are the citizens of humanity as individuals are the citizens of the nation,'[107] and again, 'The pact of humanity cannot be signed by individuals, but only by free and equal peoples, possessing a name, a banner, and the consciousness of a distinct existence.

When Plutarch wrote that "the most warlike nations are the most addicted to love," he meant, of course, lust.

95 Metaphors for  nations