Quotes About Nation

If a nation's literature declines, the nation atrophies and decays.

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.

China is an old nation with a colourful history. Its booming economy has triggered an appetite and a curiosity around the world for its art and culture, one that continues to grow. I can, however, tell people that it is a show with no actor.

Our heroes in the armed forces and our first responders are all essential to the freedom and safety of our great nation.

The concept of government of, by, and for the people isn't just a platitude. It's the moral construction of our nation. It's in our bones.

As a former CIA operative, I have seen first-hand that not every nation we buy energy from has America's best interest in mind.

Our Nation must defend the sanctity of marriage.

We have to be a nation of laws.

My dream is to see India as a nation of well-looked-after and respected sportspeople in all fields.

This is the 21st century, and you cannot hold a nation captive against their will.

My mother made countless sacrifices so that her children - and all children - could grow up in a better nation and world.

Sometimes the way you respond to horrific, evil deeds is the measure of one's self as a man, as a nation, as people, as a community.

What makes America great is that we were founded on a Judeo-Christian nation. That's very important for us to understand.

Here rests the soul of our nation - here also should be our conscience.

The nation state law has nothing controversial.

The loss of national identity is the greatest defeat a nation can know, and it is inevitable under the contemporary form of colonization.

Hillary Clinton exposed our nation's most sensitive national security secrets to foreign adversaries.

Other nations use 'force'; we Britons alone use 'Might'.

In this nation, the greatest of all nations, there are no second-class families. That is our great American conviction.

Our ability to connect as a nation with other nations around the world is enhanced dramatically by the Internet.

When life is not worth living, everything becomes a pretext for ridding ourselves of it. . . . There is a collective mood, as there is an individual mood, that inclines nations to sadness. . . . For individuals are too closely involved in the life of society for it to be sick without their being affected. Its suffering inevitably becomes theirs. ÉMILE DURKHEIM, On Suicide1

A renewal movement is at work within our nation, a movement of reconciliation with God. In our nation's short history there have been two great awakenings, and I believe the third is rising in the water. The water has come ashore, and soon it will splash across our desert land.

Understanding the Constitution is of critical importance for all Americans, for it is this brief document that protects our liberties and, by keeping our nation from falling into chaos, allows us to get on with our lives. Nothing matters so much as this.

These hippie writers are selfish and irresponsible. I'll tell you what made our nation the bastion of patrician morality it is today: the ability to be profoundly miserable. It's one of our greatest strengths, to be ranked beside shutting the boozers at ten-thirty and regarding the waterproof mackintosh as an acceptable item of clothing.