Quotes About Nation

The Civil War defined us as what we are and it opened us to being what we became, good and bad things... It was the crossroads of our being, and it was a hell of a crossroads.

Enforcement is the long overdue step to protect our Nation from external threats in a time of war. And then once we do that, we can effectively discuss a guest worker program.

Every nation has its war party. It is not the party of democracy. It is the party of autocracy. It seeks to dominate absolutely.

A nation's strength is found not in the number of its laws but in the character of its people.

In a time of serious budget deficits, immense war costs and a sluggish economy, we cannot afford to grant such outlandish subsidies to some of our Nations largest corporations.

Unless a nation's life faces peril, war is murder.

Only those who would be called upon to risk their lives for their country should have the privilege of voting to determine whether the nation should go to war.

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.

The greatest curse that can befall a free people, is civil war.

We shall solve this problem, and afterwards Warsaw as the Capital and the pool of intelligentsia of that nation will be destroyed.

Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure.

The nation is in a death-struggle. It must either become one vast slaveocracy of petty tyrants, or wholly the land of the free.

Few would venture to deny the advantages of temperance in increasing the efficiency of a nation at war.

That's one of the major lessons: no president should ever take this nation to war without full public debate in the Congress and/or in the public.

The wrong war, at the wrong place, at the wrong time, and with the wrong enemy. ... Red China is not the powerful nation seeking to dominate the world.

A nation may be said to consist of its territory, its people, and its laws. The territory is the only part which is of certain durability.

A love for tradition has never weakened a nation, indeed it has strengthened nations in their hour of peril.

Winston Churchill aroused this nation in heroic fashion to save civilisation in World War Two. We have everything we need except political will, but political will is a renewable resource.

War is a survival among us from savage times and affects now chiefly the boyish and unthinking element of the nation.

We were not making war against Germany, we were being ordered about in the King's war with Germany.

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.

I got to fall in love. I got to win a war. I got to write words that inspired a nation.

The German people are not a warlike nation. It is a soldierly one, which means it does not want a war, but does not fear it. It loves peace but also loves its honor and freedom

If we had a hydrogen economy worldwide, every nation on earth could create its own energy source to support its economy, and the threat of war over diminishing resources would just evaporate.