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Quotes About National

We have seen that our vigour, our strength, nay, our national life is in our religion.
~ Swami Vivekananda
It's hard to find an emblem of cultural, national pride that burns as bright as Israel's success in classical music.
~ Zubin Mehta
The squalid cash interpretation put on the word success — is our national disease.
~ William James
The success of our whole national program depends, of course, on the cooperation of the public--on its intelligent support and its use of a reliable system.
~ Franklin D. Roosevelt
Provincial liberties can subsist for a time without national liberty when those liberties are ancient and linked to habit, mores, and memories, while despotism is new. But it is unreasonable to think that one can create local liberties at will or even maintain them for long if general liberty is suppressed.
~ Alexis de Tocqueville
Loose diagnosis is causing a national drug overdose of medication. Six percent of our people are addicted to prescription drugs, and there are now more emergency room visits and deaths due to legal prescription drugs than to illegal street drugs.6
~ Allen Frances
It was reassuring to know our national leaders were using all the resources at their disposal to help the desperate: social media and Jesus.
~ Joe Hill
There are, however, people in this world who seldom pick up a newspaper, people who, when watching television, sneer in displeasure and change channels at the first glimpse of an anchorperson. While such willfully uninformed citizens are rare, emerging from seclusion only to serve on juries in trials of great national significance, they do exist.
~ Joe Keenan
the United States, adopted by Congress on June 14, 1777, had thirteen stripes and thirteen stars, each
~ Joey Green
Christ would be a national advertiser today, I am sure, as He was a great advertiser in His own day. He thought of His life as business.
~ Bruce Barton
It has been shown that, in contrast to everything which classical national economy has hitherto taught, not the producer but the consumer is the ruling factor in economic life.
~ Hjalmar Schacht
Military cemeteries in every corner of the world are silent testimony to the failure of national leaders to sanctify human life.
~ Yitzhak Rabin
Behind the screen of the ballot, the real holders of power ... are the great industrial and monetary monopolies who own our national economic life.
~ Florence Luscomb
Soon I worked during twelve years in theater works of the prestigious Theatre National Populaire. It was the best time of my life, the most difficult, the most interesting, the most exciting.
~ Maurice Jarre
Humor, in one form or another, is characteristic of every nation; and reflecting the salient points of social and national life, it illuminates those crowded corners which history leaves obscure.
~ Agnes Repplier
I think Karl Rove saw that in George W. Bush early on and understood the impact that he could have on Texas politics and probably on national politics.
~ Ed Gillespie
Energy has become a national security issue and as technology continues to improve, there will be more debates like the one on Keystone.
~ Ed Royce
In the end, Americans will have to decide whether or not this country will remain racist. To make that decision, we will have to avoid the trap of placing the burden of our national sins on the shoulders of Donald Trump. We need to look inward. Trump is us. Or better, Trump is you.
~ Eddie S. Glaude Jr.
We lie and cover up our sins and mute the traumas they cause. We dissociate the trauma from our national self-understanding and locate it, if at all, in the ungrateful cries of grievance and victimization among those who experienced the pain and loss.
~ Eddie S. Glaude Jr.
To make the State your god is to worship an idol, for the State is a man-made creation arising naturally out of tribal communion; but the soul, if such there be, is a god-made miracle and above all national or patriotic standards – the supreme and eternal reality.
~ Eden Phillpotts
Regrettably I have found it unavoidable to write some harsh words about my seasonal employer the National Park Service
~ Edward Abbey
There is only one republic to which I belong, of which we are citizens, we, honest people, who do not aspire, but who pay for the irreverent national domesticity. The Republic is us, it is the real France, the exploitable and exploited material; the priest of all these frenzied republics, of all those parties that have the property of others for dreams and laziness for idols.
~ ANSELME BELLEGARRIGUE
Part of our obligation is to ensure that policymakers are provided with the fullest possible picture of any matters that might affect national security.
~ James Clapper
Having just one insurance provider for all flood risk in the entire country makes no sense.
~ Jeb Hensarling