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<blockquote><a href="http://quotationsbook.com/quote/27910/">Nations! What are nations? Tartars! and Huns! and Chinamen! Like insects they swarm. The historian strives in vain to make them memorable. It is for want of a man that there are so many men. It is individuals that populate the world.</a></blockquote><br> <a href="http://quotationsbook.com/quotes/author/7227/">Thoreau, Henry David</a> on <a href="http://quotationsbook.com/quotes/tag/nations/">nations</a><br> Quote from <a href="http://quotationsbook.com">Quotations Book</a>