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Quotes About Nation

I am proud to say that the voice of the people of our nation is being heard in this hall and those voices want Donald Trump to be the next President of the United States.
~ Chris Christie
Odd, isn't it, how we now deliver upon another nation what we would not have done to ourselves.
~ Steven Erikson
There are beliefs that constitute the official religion of a nation, but those beliefs and that religion are in truth little more than the thinnest gold hammered on far older bones. No nation is singular, or exclusive—rather, it should not be, for its own good. There is much danger in asserting for oneself a claim to purity; whether of blood or of origin. Few may acknowledge it, but Lether is far richer for its devouring minorities, provided that digestion remains eternally incomplete.
~ Steven Erikson
IT'S NO SIMPLE thing,' he said, frowning as he worked through his thoughts, 'but in the world – among people, that is. Society, culture, nation – in the world, then, there are attackers and there are defenders. Most of us possess within ourselves elements of both, but in a general sense a person falls to one camp or the other, as befits their nature.
~ Steven Erikson
Reagan had predicted since the early 1960s that a "prairie fire" of conservative populism would someday sweep the nation; on November 4 it appeared that Reagan had finally struck the match.
~ Steven F. Hayward
It turns out the NAR—with its millions of adherents—has become one of Trump's biggest supporters. They are told, and many believe, that Trump was picked by God to lead the nation. They are Trump's true believers. They view themselves as "spiritual warriors" who think they are helping Trump carry out his God-given mission.
~ Steven Hassan
By the time Jesus came to earth, Israel's religious leaders had blinded the eyes of an entire nation as to who God really was and what He desired from His people.
~ Steven K. Scott
Americans put almost as much fossil fuel into our refrigerators as our cars. We're consuming about 400 gallons of oil per year per citizin -- about 17% of our nations energy use -- for agriculture.
~ Steven L. Hopp
Now when a people has dictators, that is a symptom that they are running mad. They should be watched. I think they should be watched very closely. And later they should be prevented. Now think it is not a nation but an individual, now see, this is like he had a disease.
~ Stevie Smith
The dragon is the spirit of the world, inherent in every living thing, and even in inanimate objects. Its claw is deadly. It can rake out the eyes of a nation, sunder its heart.
~ Storm Constantine
She herself now has the power to make the sequence of messages run into one flowing nation; the drop of water will fall and explode upon impact, iniating new sequences, which will be confronted in the future.
~ Storm Constantine
I realised he loved them very much, his little nation.
~ Storm Constantine
There was a terrible depression in Germany. Along comes a man who tells them they're a great nation, all they have to do is believe in themselves and follow him. He promised them the sun, the moon and the stars. The German intellectuals and comedians made fun of him and the Nazis in their night clubs. I heard one in the Platzl in Munich. The audience loved it, adored it. But it didn't stop Nazism. They won over the lower middle classes. . .
~ Studs Terkel
as Marcos reminds us, "When Mexican government officials say land, they precede the word with an 'I buy' or 'I sell,' since for the powerful land is just a commodity. When the Indigenous say land, no word recedes it, but with it they also mean nation, mother, home, school, history, wisdom.
~ Subcomandante Marcos
The sacrifices made by veterans and their willingness to fight in defense of our nation merit our deep respect and praise - and to the best in benefits and medical care.
~ Sue Kelly
That was the inherent contradiction. This was a nation backed into a corner. They did not want to open up, and yet they had no choice but to move toward engagement if they wanted to survive. They had built the entire foundation of their country on isolationism and wanting to kill Americans and South Koreans, yet they needed to learn English and feed their children with foreign money.
~ Suki Kim
Seek not equality with either white or any other nation open your eyes and see behind their pretended pleasure and power is only impotence and despair.
~ Sun Ra
Resolved, that the women of this nation in 1876, have greater cause for discontent, rebellion and revolution than the men of 1776.
~ Susan B. Anthony
early colonist columnist wrote, "If ever a nation was debauched by a man
~ Susan Cheever
I would love to inspire our nation and continue the success of U.S. women's soccer.
~ Julie Ertz
As I review the great history of our nation, community organizers have been at the center of so many of our great social movements.
~ Cory Booker
The Democratic Party believes that health insurance is a social responsibility of the nation. I believe that health insurance is an individual responsibility. And that's a really hard philosophy to mesh.
~ Raul Labrador
My father was into politics. After his death things got slow. We were meeting different parties and everywhere I heard people grumbling and cursing politics and the state of the nation. I made an effort and I am trying to fulfill my social responsibility.
~ Vishwajeet Pradhan
All Americans have a sacred duty to guarantee Social Security benefits to our nation's senior citizens.
~ Steve King