If you want to study the social and political history of modern nations, study hell

If you want to study the social and political history of modern nations, study hell.

A nation as a society forms a moral person, and every member of it is personally responsible for his society

No nation is permitted to live in ignorance with impunity

We are firmly convinced, and we act on that conviction, that with nations as with individuals our interests soundly calculated will ever be found inseparable from our moral duties, and history bears witness to the fact that a just nation is trusted o

The biggest human temptation is to settle for too little.