Quotes About Nation

War is one of the nation's most honored virtues, and its militaristic values now bear down on almost every aspect of American life.

No American can read the story of the part America took in the war without experiencing a glow of patriotic feeling. Every Allied nation can say the same thing.

I can recall no parallel in history where a great nation recently at war has so distinguished its former enemy commander.

Imperialism is an institution under which one nation asserts the right to seize the land or at least to control the government or resources of another people.

For we no longer take up "sword against nation," nor do we "learn war any more," having become children of peace, for the sake of Jesus, who is our leader.

All war is murder, robbery, trickery, and no nation ever escaped losses of men, prosperity and virility. War knows no victor.

To have good soldiers, a nation must always be at war.

Canada entered World War I as a colony and came out a nation.

There seems to be three ways for a nation to acquire wealth: the first is by war...this is robbery; the second by commerce, which is generally cheating; the third by agriculture, the only honest way.

War never leaves where it found a nation.

A nation that sends its women to fight its wars is not worth defending.

Both parties deprecated war; but one of them would make war rather than let the nation survive; and the other would accept war rather than let it perish. And the war came.

The more I think of all that I have seen in the Confederate States, the more I feel inclined to say...'How can you subdue such a nation as this!'

In place of equal respect, the nation offered women the Miss America beauty pageant, established in 1920-the same year women won the vote.

The historian Howard Zinn's remarks about the South make sense: it is "not the antithesis but the essence of American society which could therefore function as a mirror in which the nation can see its own blemishes magnified."6 If the South is a mirror, Mississippi is a microscope.

The nation must achieve a coherent and widely accepted national narrative. Here language is front and center. ... Narratives start with words and are reinforced by symbols. ... Narratives are transported through education.

During [Louis XIV]'s reign, France became the largest and most important nation in Europe.

Confederation Day every blessed year on December 12.

I am an Obamacare agnostic - if it works, as I hope it will for the good of the nation, then it's a great thing. If it doesn't, then that is a disappointing thing, and we need to try something else.

We are anxious because we do not know what roles to pursue, what principles for action to believe in. Our individual anxiety, somewhat like that of the nation, is a basic confusion and bewilderment about where we are going.

America's public schools have served their purpose. Free and compulsory education was good for a somewhat unpromising young nation.

There never was and is not likely soon to be a nation of philosophers, nor am I certain it is desirable that there should be.

Many of our nation's great leaders began their careers at a service academy. I encourage anyone interested in a rewarding college experience or military career to apply as soon as possible.

Right now, a majority of the debt is owed to foreign interests, Japan being the largest purchaser of government debt today, soon to be surpassed by China as the number one purchaser of our debt in this Nation.