Quotes About Nation

First and foremost is what this country was based on: one nation under God.

Many people want 'God bless America,' but they don't want 'One nation under God.' The problem is you can't have one without the other.

That's why I believe that we must never fail to affirm that we are indeed one nation under God.

There are Jews who came from 102 countries and speak 81 languages - how do you consolidate them into one nation? This is where I saw my role.

The financial elite do not need special laws for themselves. This is one nation and there is one criminal law.

Democracy is never a thing done. Democracy is always something that a nation must be doing. What is necessary now is one thing and one thing only that democracy become again democracy in action, not democracy accomplished and piled up in goods and gold.

I have always said there is only one thing that can bring our nation down - our dependence on foreign countries for food and energy. Agriculture is the backbone of our economy.

The election of Obama will say as much about the American people as it does about Obama himself - that our Declaration of Independence means what it says in its opening lines, that being the world's greatest nation means that we offer the world's greatest opportunities.

Everybody should work in their nation's capitol and see how politics actually work because it was the most eye opening experience of my life.

America is a great nation, not just because of your power and your wealth, but because of your high ideals, openness, and generosity of spirit.

The more abstract, the more ideal an art is, the more it reveals to us the temper of its age. If we wish to understand a nation by means of its art, let us look at its architecture or its music.

We Irish are too poetical to be poets; we are a nation of brilliant failures, but we are the greatest talkers since the Greeks.

Whatever country you live in, any law based on "glory" instead of real harm is dangerous. The glory of the nation, or the glory of the monarchy, or the glory of the superior race, or the glory of the church have been the cause of horrible wars and legally sanctioned discrimination. Any laws based solely on these glories should be morally denounced. They cause unnecessary harm.

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America, he thought, and not for the first time, is a nation with huge dreams and not infrequently the ability to realize them.

had a television set until I sold it at the height of the Vietnam War. Those sanitized snippets of death—made distant by the camera's lens—meant nothing to me. But I believe it meant something to these cattle which surround me. When the war and the nightly televised body counts ended, they demanded more, more, and the movie screens and streets of this sweet and dying nation have provided it in mediocre, mob abundance. It is an addiction I know well.

I speculated, not for the first time, that the sanity of the nation would be much improved if children and adults were required by law to eat in separate public establishments.

As Erasmus, the great Renaissance thinker, reminds us, "The best hope of a nation lies in the proper education of its youth.

We are a nation of children letting horrible things happen, and flunking Calc.

Yemen may be a prototype for a chaos nation. It has also, because of its strategic location, turned into a critical battleground in the great rivalry between Saudi Arabia and Iran in the modern Middle East. "From now on, we can't speak about [the] Syrian army, Hezbollah, Yemeni army, Iraqi army, and Iranian army," Hezbollah television announced. "We must speak about one resistance axis operating in all theaters.

Those life experiences that helped shaped my political beliefs are with me in every position I take and every vote that I cast – whether it be in favor of comprehensive immigration reform, strengthening Social Security and Medicare, or improving our nation's education system.

America is not a wily, sneaky nation. We don't think that way. We don't think much at all, thank God.

What kind of nation we will be, what kind of world we will live in, whether we shape the future in the image of our hopes, is ours to determine by our actions and our choices.

The chains of military despotism, once fastened upon a nation, ages might pass away before they could be shaken off.