Nation Quotes - page 3

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. (George H. W. Bush)
Today in the era of globalization there is no such issue as borders between states of the same nation. View quote
Fatos Nano
In every community, there is work to be done. In every nation, there are wounds to heal. In every heart, there is the power to do it. View quote
Marianne Williamson
No nation ever taxed itself into prosperity. View quote
Rush Limbaugh
It is sometimes necessary to lie damnably in the interests of the nation. View quote
Hilaire Belloc
Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation can be trusted to act humanely or to think sanely under the influence of a great fear. View quote
Bertrand Russell
The nation behaves well if it treats the natural resources as assets which it must turn over to the next generation increased, and not impaired, in value. View quote
Theodore Roosevelt
I refer, of course, to the debts our nation has amassed for itself over decades of indulgence. It is the new Red Menace, this time consisting of ink. We can debate its origins endlessly and search for villains on ideological grounds, but the reality is pure arithmetic. View quote
Mitch Daniels
National character is only another name for the particular form which the littleness, perversity and baseness of mankind take in every country. Every nation mocks at other nations, and all are right. View quote
Arthur Schopenhauer
When a whole nation is roaring Patriotism at the top of its voice, I am fain to explore the cleanness of its hands and purity of its heart. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The other day the President said, I know you've had some rough times, and I want to do something that will show the nation what faith that I have in you, in your maturity and sense of responsibility. He paused, then said, would you like a puppy? (Dan Quayle)
Science knows no country, because knowledge belongs to humanity, and is the torch which illuminates the world. Science is the highest personification of the nation because that nation will remain the first which carries the furthest the works of thought and intelligence. View quote
Louis Pasteur
As individuals and as a nation, we now suffer from social narcissism. The beloved Echo of our ancestors, the virgin America, has been abandoned. We have fallen in love with our own image, with images of our making, which turn out to be images of ourselves. View quote
Daniel J. Boorstin
Every nation has to either be with us, or against us. Those who harbor terrorists, or who finance them, are going to pay a price. View quote
Hillary Clinton
I contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle. View quote
Winston Churchill
The British nation is unique in this respect. They are the only people who like to be told how bad things are, who like to be told the worst. View quote
Winston Churchill
We do not covet anything from any nation except their respect. View quote
Winston Churchill
India is a geographical term. It is no more a united nation than the Equator. View quote
Winston Churchill
It was the nation and the race dwelling all round the globe that had the lion's heart. I had the luck to be called upon to give the roar. View quote
Winston Churchill
A nation or civilization that continues to produce soft-minded men purchases its own spiritual death on the installment plan. View quote
Martin Luther King Jr.
Every age has its own poetry; in every age the circumstances of history choose a nation, a race, a class to take up the torch by creating situations that can be expressed or transcended only through poetry. (Jean-Paul Sartre)
We must think and act like a nation of a billion people and not like that of a million people. Dream, dream, dream! View quote
Abdul Kalam
There was never a nation great until it came to the knowledge that it had nowhere in the world to go for help. View quote
Charles Dudley Warner
It's the quality of the ordinary, the straight, the square, that accounts for the great stability and success of our nation. It's a quality to be proud of. But it's a quality that many people seem to have neglected. View quote
Gerald Ford
Political liberty, the peace of a nation, and science itself are gifts for which Fate demands a heavy tax in blood! View quote
Honoré de Balzac
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