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Justice is the great interest of man on earth.
Money, not morality, is the principle commerce of civilized nations.
Straying off course is not recognized as a capital crime by civilized nations.
The Koran and the laws of all civilized nations legislate against the vilification of religions.
A visitor from Mars could easily pick out the civilized nations. They have the best implements of war.
Torture, including practices like waterboarding, violates the legal and moral standards of all civilized nations.
All civilized nations must unite in condemnation of a theology that now threatens to destabilize much of the earth.
Since art is dead in the actual life of civilized nations, it has been relegated to these grotesque morgues, museums.
Nature makes us poor only when we want necessaries, but custom gives the name of poverty to the want of superfluities.
It is time for all civilized nations to stop the horrors that are taking place in Syria and demand a political solution.
Justice, sir, is the great interest of man on earth. It is the ligament which holds civilized beings and civilized nations together.
GUNPOWDER, n. An agency employed by civilized nations for the settlement of disputes which might become troublesome if left unadjusted.
On the day when two army corps may mutually annihilate each other in a second, probably all civilized nations will recoil with horror and disband their troops.
The social problem of the twentieth century is whether civilized nations can restore themselves to sanity after their nineteenth-century aberrations of individualism and capitalism.
Terrorism must be outlawed by all civilized nations not explained or rationalized, but fought and eradicated. Nothing can, nothing will justify the murder of innocent people and helpless children.
The treatment of women in Muslim communities throughout the world is unconscionable. All civilized nations must unite in condemnation of a theology that now threatens to destabilize much of the Earth.
But while human liberty has engaged the attention of the enlightened, and enlisted the feelings of the generous of all civilized nations, may we not enquire if this liberty has been rightly understood?
A civilized nation can have no enemies, and one cannot draw a line across a map, a line that doesn't even exist in nature and say that the ugly enemy lives on the one side, and good friends live on the other.
The true courage of civilized nations is readiness for sacrifice in the service of the state, so that the individual counts as only one amongst many. The important thing here is not personal mettle but aligning oneself with the universal.
Those who say [Joseph] Padilla should get a civilian trial are essentially saying that if you reject the rules of civilized nations, like those inscribed in the Geneva Convention, you therefore deserve to be treated better, not worse, than those rules require.
During practically all of my public life, I have been a sincere advocate of an agreement between the leading nations of the world to set up all the necessary international machinery that would bring about a practical abolition of war between civilized nations.
It is an established principle of jurisprudence in all civilized nations that the sovereign cannot be sued in its own courts, or in any other, without its consent and permission; but it may, if it thinks proper, waive this privilege, and permit itself to be made a defendant in a suit by individuals, or by another State.