Nation Quotes - page 2

The nation that destroys its soil destroys itself. (Franklin D. Roosevelt)
A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual doom. View quote
Martin Luther King Jr.
I know that my works are a credit to this nation and I dare say they will endure longer than the McCarran Act. View quote
Arthur Miller
If a country is to be corruption free and become a nation of beautiful minds, I strongly feel there are three key societal members who can make a difference. They are the father, the mother and the teacher. View quote
Abdul Kalam
There is no instance of a nation benefitting from prolonged warfare. View quote
Sun Tzu
No nation is so great as to be able to afford, in the long run, to remain outside an increasingly universal League of Nations. View quote
Hjalmar Branting
Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the act depriving a whole nation of arms as the blackest. View quote
Mahatma Gandhi
Stay with us, please remain in this country and constitute a nation based on national unity. View quote
Robert Mugabe
He who is the author of a war lets loose the whole contagion of hell and opens a vein that bleeds a nation to death. View quote
Thomas Paine
If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom, and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that too. View quote
W. Somerset Maugham
The greatness of America lies not in being more enlightened than any other nation, but rather in her ability to repair her faults. (Alexis de Tocqueville)
All those who seek to destroy the liberties of a democratic nation ought to know that war is the surest and shortest means to accomplish it. View quote
Alexis de Tocqueville
It is to be hoped that the leaders of this movement will place the nation above the party. View quote
Franz von Papen
If I knew of something that could serve my nation but would ruin another, I would not propose it to my prince, for I am first a man and only then a Frenchman... because I am necessarily a man, and only accidentally am I French. View quote
Montesquieu
A nation without means of reform is without means of survival. View quote
Edmund Burke
In the usual progress of things, the necessities of a nation in every stage of its existence will be found at least equal to its resources. View quote
Alexander Hamilton
Size is not grandeur, and territory does not make a nation. View quote
Thomas Henry Huxley
Cyberspace. A consensual hallucination experienced daily by billions of legitimate operators, in every nation, by children being taught mathematical concepts. View quote
William Gibson
The challenge of social justice is to evoke a sense of community that we need to make our nation a better place, just as we make it a safer place. View quote
Marian Wright Edelman
To limit the press is to insult a nation; to prohibit reading of certain books is to declare the inhabitants to be either fools or slaves. View quote
Claude Adrien Helvétius
We dont bother much about dress and manners in England, because as a nation we dont dress well and weve got no manners. (George Bernard Shaw)
Resolved, that the women of this nation in 1876, have greater cause for discontent, rebellion and revolution than the men of 1776. View quote
Susan B. Anthony
Every nation, in every region, now has a decision to make. Either you are with us, or you are with the terrorists. View quote
George W. Bush
The first panacea for a mismanaged nation is inflation of the currency; the second is war. Both bring a temporary prosperity; both bring a permanent ruin. But both are the refuge of political and economic opportunists. View quote
Ernest Hemingway
America is never wholly herself unless she is engaged in high moral principle. We as a people have such a purpose today. It is to make kinder the face of the nation and gentler the face of the world. View quote
George H. W. Bush
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