“There can be no greater error than to expect or calculate upon real favors from nation to nation.”
1790s, Farewell Address (1796)
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“What can we expect from nations still less advanced in civilization than the Greeks?”
Source: A Treatise On Political Economy (Fourth Edition) (1832), Introduction, p. xxix
Baccalaureate address as President of Yale (12 June 1966)

“From the errors of other nations, let us learn wisdom”
Source: Common Sense

“There is no greater nobility than offering one’s life to the nation”
Remarks by President Obama and President Aquino III of the Philippines during a State Dinner at Malacanang Palace in Manila, Philippines on April 28, 2014 http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2014/04/28/remarks-president-obama-and-president-aquino-iii-philippines-state-dinne
2014
Context: There is no greater nobility than offering one’s life to the nation and, Mr. President, your father offered his life so that this nation might be free.

Speech in Cleveland http://books.google.com/books?id=o3j10P6YFZIC&pg=PA1090&dq=%22nation's+honor+is+dearer+than+the+nation's+comfort%22 (January 1916)
1910s

Source: A Treatise On Political Economy (Fourth Edition) (1832), Book III, On Consumption, Chapter I, p. 391 (See also: Say's Law)

Land of My Fathers, 1974. (Translation from Welsh original text)

“The only possible idea of India is that of a nation greater than the sum of its parts.”
The Hindu, "Strengthening Indianness ", Sunday, Jan 19, 2003, Available Online http://www.hinduonnet.com/thehindu/mag/2003/01/19/stories/2003011900240300.htm
2000s