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Quotes About Nation

My favorite part of the experience of serving in Congress is knowing that my time and effort are spent for the greater good and for the betterment of our nation.
~ Jared Polis
In the 'era of colorblindness,' there's a nearly fanatical desire to cling to the myth that we, as a nation, have 'moved beyond' race.
~ Michelle Alexander
We have been, obviously both in Maine and nationally, enmeshed in this false narrative that's based on a fear of immigrants, when in fact we are country founded by immigrants.
~ Sara Gideon
Propelled by freedom of faith, gender equality and economic justice for all, India will become a modern nation. Minor blemishes cannot cloak the fact that India is becoming such a modern nation: no faith is in danger in our country, and the continuing commitment to gender equality is one of the great narratives of our times.
~ Pranab Mukherjee
There's a mindset of flexibility and adaptability that comes with us. We don't mind hardship. We don't mind somebody saying, 'Go in and do this nasty job.' Whatever the job is, we can do it. That's why the nation has a Marine Corps.
~ James F. Amos
Obviously I don't hate America. I do believe that we are becoming - and I can only judge it by my lifetime, 'cause I don't know what it was like in the 1800s - but it just seems that as a nation, we are becoming really, really nasty, and not concerned with any kind of truth.
~ Bobcat Goldthwait
The decline of literature indicates the decline of a nation.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Brexit was a fantastic example of a nation shooting itself full in the face.
~ Hugh Grant
Restoring responsibility and accountability is essential to the economic and fiscal health of our nation.
~ Carl Levin
Literature becomes the living memory of a nation.
~ Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
No man shall have the right to fix the boundary to the march of a Nation.
~ Charles Stewart Parnell
A nation is blessed when it has godly leaders.
~ Max Lucado
Agitation is the marshalling of the conscience of a nation to mold its laws.
~ Robert Peel
In the Nation of Islam, Akbar Muhammad is a big deal.
~ Tucker Carlson
To be a great nation and a great people, you have to do great things.
~ Homer Hickam
The rise or fall of Shanghai means the birth or death of the whole nation.
~ Chiang Kai-shek
Loyalty to the family must be merged into loyalty to the community, loyalty to the community into loyalty to the nation, and loyalty to the nation into loyalty to mankind. The citizen of the future must be a citizen of the world.
~ Thomas Cochrane
A marriage without conflicts is almost as inconceivable as a nation without crises.
~ Andre Maurois
I was right to back Muhammad Ali, but it caused me major enmity in many areas of this nation.
~ Howard Cosell
There is no better way to give comfort to an enemy than to divide the people of a nation over the issue of foreign war.
~ Charles Lindbergh
I am mortal. I want the nation to get used to freedom before I die.
~ Mustafa Kemal Ataturk
It is the habit of every aggressor nation to claim that it is acting on the defensive.
~ Jawaharlal Nehru
The honor of a nation is its life.
~ Alexander Hamilton
Faith crosses every border and touches every heart in every nation.
~ George W. Bush