Nation Quotes

In the past, the U.S. has shown its capacity to reinvent its gifts for leadership. During the 1970s,...

The person who takes the oath of office in the next four months will shape not just the next four ye...

My books are elegiac in the sense that they're odes to a nation that even I sometimes think may not ...

The longer a nation's history, the more wars, invasions, wanderings, and periods of captivity it has...

If we ever forget that we are One Nation Under God, then we will be a nation gone under.

Five decades ago, as India's first prime minister, Jawaharlal Nehru, began visibly ailing, the natio...

Remember that a civilized nation cannot just have one party; if there were only one party, this woul...

...You want a special truth. *You* want the truth to be a truth that *you* like. You want it to be a...

Silence fell like a hammer made of feathers. It left holes in the shape of the sound of the sea.

Peace is normally a great good, and normally it coincides with righteousness, but it is righteousnes...

Rhetoric is a poor substitute for action, and we have trusted only to rhetoric. If we are really to ...

And can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we have removed their only firm basis, a co...

Those who want to reap the benefits of this great nation must bear the fatigue of supporting it.

the military system of a nation is not an independent section of the social system but an aspect of ...

The attitude of 'every nation unto itself' is a destructive one for the future of Israel.

Any nation that thinks more of its ease and comfort than its freedom will soon lose its freedom and ...

I am of old and young, of the foolish as much as the wise,Regardless of others, ever regardful of ot...

Over all our happy country - over all our Nation spread, Is a band of noble heroes - is our Army of ...

I have a scheme for stopping war. It's this - no nation is allowed to enter a war till they have pai...

The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages is preserved into perpetuity by a nation's pro...

Cyberspace. A consensual hallucination experienced daily by billions of legitimate operators, in eve...

A nation is a society united by a delusion about its ancestry and by common hatred of its neighbours...

We do not covet anything from any nation except their respect.

The British nation is unique in this respect. They are the only people who like to be told how bad t...

Under a dictatorship, a nation ceases to exist. All that remains is a fiefdom, a planet of slaves re...

Those words . . . national and portrait. They were both to do with identity: the identity of a cultu...

If this country is ever demoralized, it will come from trying to live without work.

Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived ...

Allow the president to invade a neighboring nation whenever he shall deem it necessary to repel an i...

There is a great deal of ruin in a nation.

A nation that has no music and no fairytales is a tragedy.

A war for a great principle ennobles a nation.

One of the great attractions of patriotism - it fulfills our worst wishes. In the person of our nati...

Educate the masses, elevate their standard of intelligence, and you will certainly have a successful...

The greatness of America lies not in being more enlightened than any other nation, but rather in her...

A marriage without conflicts is almost as inconceivable as a nation without crises.

Germany's strength lies largely in the fact that the Federal Republic is a center of industry and th...

Upper classes are a nation's past the middle class is its future.

What's missing is not money, but a national sense of urgency.

Restoring responsibility and accountability is essential to the economic and fiscal health of our na...

When a nation goes down, or a society perishes, one condition may always be found; they forgot where...

Every artist is a man who has freed himself from his family, his nation, his race. Every man who has...

How can anyone govern a nation that has two hundred and forty-six different kinds of cheese?

China not only fights for her own independence, but also for the liberation of every oppressed natio...

The strength of a nation derives from the integrity of the home.

Each nation feels superior to other nations. That breeds patriotism - and wars.

Parenting is the most important job on the planet next to keeping Gary Busey off the nation's highwa...

The messengers of Jesus will be hated to the end of time. They will be blamed for all the division w...

Let a nation's fervent thanks make some amends for the toils and sufferings of those who survive.

Israel is the strongest nation in the Middle East, but we have to apply our strength wisely.

This nation will remain the land of the free only so long as it is the home of the brave.

The less justified a man is in claiming excellence for his own self, the more ready is he to claim a...

The first panacea for a mismanaged nation is inflation of the currency the second is war. Both bring...

The oblivion, and I'll say even the historical error, are a key factor in the creation of a nation, ...

The greatest men of a nation are those it puts to death.

Art invariably grows out of a period when, in general, the artist admires his own nation and wants t...

A nation that destroys its soils destroys itself. Forests are the lungs of our land, purifying the a...

Human kindness has never weakened the stamina or softened the fiber of a free people. A nation does ...

A smile or a tear has not nationality; joy and sorrow speak alike to all nations, and they, above al...

Industry entirely left to itself, would soon fall to ruin, and a nation letting everything alone wou...

Germany is a great nation only because its people have so much Polish blood in their veins.

Patriotism is, fundamentally, a conviction that a particular country is the best in the world becaus...

Faith crosses every border and touches every heart in every nation.

Our Nation must defend the sanctity of marriage.

There can be no greater error than to expect, or calculate, upon real favors from nation to nation. ...

A leader who doesn't hesitate before he sends his nation into battle is not fit to be a leader.

A nation will rise no higher than the strength of its homes.

Every good citizen adds to the strength of a nation.

Americans need never fear their government because of the advantage of being armed, which the Americ...

The United States is not a nation to which peace is a necessity.

Come to the edge, He said.They said: We are afraid.Come to the edge, He said.They came. He pushed th...

Outside the kingdom of the Lord there is no nation which is greater than any other. God and history ...

We have arrived at that point of time in which we are forced to see our own humiliation, as a nation...

On the same line of reasoning, if Australians were to be Australians, or rather if Australians were ...

Every nation has to either be with us, or against us. Those who harbor terrorists, or who finance th...

If someone were to put a proposition before men bidding them choose, after examination, the best cus...

I'm very optimistic because I think that the real strength of a nation like the United States comes ...

Arnold had never given much thought to whether or not he loved America—but now it seemed pretty obvi...

He who controls the money supply of a nation controls the nation.

The Constitution preserves the advantage of being armed which Americans possess over the people of a...

The nation that complacently and fearfully allows its artists and writers to become suspected rather...

Unless our conception of patriotism is progressive, it cannot hope to embody the real affection and ...

Every age has its own poetry; in every age the circumstances of history choose a nation, a race, a c...

Ever since Israel has been a nation the United States has provided the leadership. Every president d...

Tell me how much a nation knows about its own language, and I will tell you how much that nation kno...

Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education. The human mind is our fun...

I never saw, heard, nor read, that the clergy were beloved in any nation where Christianity was the ...

We young Filipinos are trying to make over a nation and must not halt in our march, but from time to...

I have observed that the prosperity or misery of each people is in direct proportion to its libertie...

When a nation is filled with strife, then do patriots flourish.

To every people the land is given on condition. Perceived or not, there is a Covenant, beyond the co...

The sooner we get started with alternative energy sources and recognize that fossil fuels makes us l...

To make democracy work, we must be a nation of participants, not simply observers. One who does not ...

...if we are to become a land of homes and people, evil men must not be allowed to persist in their ...

The greatness of a nation can be judged by the way its animals are treated.

What is true of the individual will be tomorrow true of the whole nation if individuals will but ref...

Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the act depriving a who...

Our success educationally, industrially and politically is based upon the protection of a nation fou...

A nation that does not stand for its children does not stand for anything and will not stand tall in...

Outrage is easy, cheap, and oversold. The nation needs less anger and more thoughtful reflection, le...