Quotes About Nation

To ask us to serve the nation is to ask chandan [sandalwood] to be fragrant.

The heart hoped that India would survive, but the head worried that it wouldn't. The place was too complicated, too confusing – a nation, one might say, that was unnatural. In truth, ever since the country

These three conceptual and ideological challenges (Hindu fundamentalism, Communist dictatorship and ethnic separatism) all date to the founding of the nation. To these have, more recently been added, three more mundane and materialist challenges. These are inequality, corruption and environmental degradation.

freedom of a nation cannot be won by solitary acts of heroism'; rather, it 'requires the patient, intelligent, and constructive effort of tens of thousands of men and women, young and old'.

Although housing sales and starts have cooled to more typical levels, the housing market remains strong and sound. Without the expansion of homeownership and the strength of our housing market, our nation would not have the economic growth we are experiencing today.

By genocide we mean the destruction of a nation or of an ethnic group.

I am a teacher of many, but a student of life, for when I teach, I also learn. my students show me the effects of my works. I do not teach radicalization, nor confrontation. I give the education for a healing of the nation, from which peace should flow.

my trench town created reggae is a spiritual mission, not a competition, or something to follow aimlessly with blind ambition. It is sacrosanct, and for a healing of the nation. This is all embodied in my- reggae education/r.A.S.P.E.C.T1

The more a nation gets into darkness, the more it's going to hate the light. The more it's going to run from the light. And we have a generation of people who have given themselves to darkness, and they've embraced atheism, because it gets them away from moral responsibility to God.

America's professional and managerial elites have little interest in the broad middle class of our society and have weak ties to nation and place.

We have become a suburban nation—the only one in the world.

The American Revolution, a fight for freedom from colonial rule, was also the most extensive and destructive "Indian war" in the nation's history. Whereas other wars affected individual nations, the Revolution affected all Native Americans east of the Mississippi.

California is a very important state. As goes California, so goes the nation. We need to have strong leadership. Someone who can hit the ground running.

The change we seek for our nation is not the choice of an individual but must be the calling of a country.

Americans want to believe that we are a nation of laws, and no one is above them, including the president. Mr. Trump's and his associates' actions during his campaign and during his brief time in office are extremely troubling.

America gives every appearance of being a nation besotted with trashiness - divorce, illegitimacy, casual Fridays.

The President is the CEO of this business that we call America.

There is only so much chaos a nation can stand.

I cherished the dream of a country embracing all its people.

She is the first head of government in history to give a whole country its second childhood.

I believe, in America, we're a nation of people that are self-governors. This idea that only a chosen few elites have the ability to make decisions is foreign to me.

Are we a Christian nation now? It's doubtful. But did we start out as one? Without question.

The right to vote is one of our nation's most important civil rights.

Permanent superiority has never been realized by any nation in history. After the rise comes the fall.