Quotes About Nation

Social prosperity means man happy, the citizen free, the nation great.

The nation that will insist upon drawing a broad line of demarcation between the fighting man and the thinking man is liable to find its fighting done by fools and its thinking by cowards.

No man has a right to judge Andrew Johnson in any respect who has not suffered as much and done as much as he for the Nation's sake.

These men of Law and their confederates ... the caterpillars of this Kingdom, who with their uncontrolled exactions and extortions, eat up the free-born people of this Nation.

I know it is easy to criticise and I accept it is a difficult job managing England but the man in charge must be passionate and realise he owes it to the nation to win the World Cup.

It will be necessary for us to be a nation of men, and not laws.

In a nation of sheep, one brave man forms a majority.

Every once in a while, a great nation has to deal with a great issue. Millions of people understand that it's not bigotry to believe that marriage is between a man and a woman.

There is something wrong with our culture when the view that marriage is between one man and one woman, a view shared by half the nation, is portrayed as evidence of hatred.

Repression does for a true man or a nation what fire does for gold.

The tattoo of the History is permanent; once a nation or a man is marked by this tattoo, erasing is impossible.

A nation recruits men more easily than it can retrieve its honour.

When defending itself against another country, a nation never lacks men, but too often, soldiers.

Liberty is the hardest test that one can inflict on a people. To know how to be free is not given equally to all men and all nations.

What a man does in his own house cannot concern the nation.

What we say of a thing that has just come in fashion And that which we do with the dead, Is the name of the honestest man in the nation: What more of a man can be said?

A great nation is any mob of people which produces at least one honest man a century.

A conservative young man has wound up his life before it was unreeled. We expect old men to be conservative but when a nation's young men are so, its funeral bell is already rung.

A nation is a thing that lives and acts like a man and men are the particles of which it is composed.

when a great war has cut off the young men of a nation it never can be told thereafter what losses of scholars, poets, thinkers and great designers the country and the world have suffered.

Black men of integrity cannot make a deal with a politician and leave out the poor of the nation, all God's children.

If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom; and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that too.

No money on earth can buy the love and affection that has been given to me by a grateful nation.

A weak currency is the sign of a weak economy, and a weak economy leads to a weak nation.