Quotes About Nation

Forgetting, I would even say historical error, is essential to the creation of a nation, which is why the advance of historical study often poses a threat to nationality.

The nation will continue to be a central pole of identification, even if more and more nations come to share common economic and political forms of organization.

Do the thousands of 'cross-bucks' at railroad crossings across our nation memorialize any exchange of 'dollars'?

Blessed with victory and peace, may the Heaven-rescued landPraise the Power that hath made and preserved us a nation.Then conquer we must, when our cause it is just,And this be our motto, "In God is our trust."

Oh! say, does that star-spangled banner yet wave, O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave.

Trees and branches are what nation states cling to; waves are what markets do.

The United States is a nation of laws, badly written and randomly enforced.

Human kindness has never weakened the stamina or softened the fiber of a free people. A nation does not have to be cruel to be tough.

As a nation we may take pride in the fact that we are softhearted; but we cannot afford to be soft-headed

Our sons, pride of our nation, this day have set upon a mighty endeavor, a struggle to preserve our Republic, our religion, and our civilization, and to set free a suffering humanity

In this dedication of a Nation we humbly ask the blessing of God. May he protect each and every one of us. May He guide me in the days to come.

It isn't the growth of a nation that creates a man. It isn't material expansion or monetary development. It comes from inside. When there is nothing there is infinite potential for something. Where there is darkness, light is there to fill it.

The settler makes history and is conscious of making it. And because he constantly refers to the history of his mother country, he clearly indicates that he himself is the extension of that mother-country. Thus the history which he writes is not the history of the country which he plunders but the history of his own nation in regard to all that she skims off, all that she violates and starves.

National liberation, national reawakening, restoration of the nation to the people or Commonwealth, whatever the name used, whatever the latest expression, decolonization is always a violent event.

To politicize the masses is to make the nation in its totality a reality for every citizen. To make the experience of the nation, the experience of every citizen" (140).

To politicize the masses is to make the nation in its totality a reality for every citizen. To make the experience of the nation, the experience of every citizen. (140)

The latter class [peasants] is always unaffected by the course of historic events. Like cats who are attached to a house and not to the people who dwell in it, the poorer type of peasant belongs less to the nation than to the soil. Therefore, however numerous they are, they never constitute a danger for a conqueror.

A battle lost or won is easily described, understood, and appreciated, but the moral growth of a great nation requires reflection, as well as observation, to appreciate it.

In a composite nation like ours, as before the law, there should be no rich, no poor, no high, no low, no white, no black, but common country, common citizenship, equal rights and a common destiny.

I'm sorry, young caretaker," Lomo said. "By coming to Wyrmroost, you inherited calamitous trouble. And look what you do!" "Flip over my rocking chair?" "You stand and fight! While a nation of ancient adults cowers behind policies of appeasement.

What determines inequality among individuals within a single nation? Are there certain regularities that make inequality behave in a particular way as societies develop?

We're a nation of exhausted and over-stressed adults raising over-scheduled children.

we're a nation hungry for more joy: Because we're starving from a lack of gratitude.

There's nothing like self-pity for thoroughly dissipating a man. And when a nation indulges in that luxury it finds itself with a dictator.