Quotes About Nation

You want us all to be snake-charmers and scorpion-eaters, he raged, at one point in their conversation ... Naturally, Eunice replied in her most provoking manner. It would be far preferable to being a nation of tenth-rate pseudo-civilized rug-sellers.

We were a proud people. We lost our country. Our only hope for return was to keep ourselves a people. The only hope to keep ourselves a people was to keep our common faith in one God, a God of our own. That God has been our country and our nation. In sorrow and wailing and woe for all that we have lost has been our union. And our rabbis have so taught us, generation after generation.

I wish to produce the fruit of my brain for my country's good. A mere dog may fill the earth with the fruit of his body!

Now although it is said that lords of war should be subservient in a nation to the civil governors of the people, it is a thing known and proved that the power goes always to the armed man and the man with weapons, and how can a weaponless man, even though he has the right, oppose a man of war in the same region with him, who has soldiers to his command?

Unlike every other nation in the world, the United States defines itself as a hypothesis and constitutes itself as an argument.

A nation devoid of art and artists cannot have a full existence.

Righteousness alone can exalt them [America] as a nation. Reader! Whoever thou art, remember this, and in thy sphere practice virtue thyself and encourage it in others.

No nation as young as America can be expected to become immediately a power in the arts.

In a nation that has developed to a high art advertising, the creator who refuses to advertise himself is immediately suspected of having no product worth selling.

The arts are part of a nation's identity, they are part of a nation's soul and when we look at a country from the eyes of people overseas they are part of a nations branding in the world as it were.

During my training I was trained in Psycho-politics. This was the art of capturing the minds of a nation through brainwashing and fake mental health.

A semi-starved nation can have neither religion nor art nor organization.

A poverty-stricken nation with a great art is a greater nation than a wealthy nation with a poverty-stricken art.

Today, as yesterday, a nation is judged by its attitude towards refugees.

Anything that is as old as racism is in the blood line of the nation. It's not any superficial thing-that attitude is in the blood and we have to educate about it.

No doubt the [presedential] campaigns have reflected some anxiety, anger, and resentment in the nation at large, and we must try to understand these attitudes in the electorate.

A confluence of factors, in particular a critical juncture coupled with a broad coalition of those pushing for reform or other propitious existing institutions, is often necessary for a nation to make strides toward more inclusive institutions. In addition some luck is key, because history always unfolds in a contingent way.

During critical junctures, a major event or confluence of factors disrupts the existing balance of political or economic power in a nation.

In the words of a very famous dead person, 'A nation that does not know its history is doomed to do poorly on the Scholastic Aptitude Test.

We Americans live in a nation where the medical-care system is second to none in the world, unless you count maybe 25 or 30 little scuzzball countries like Scotland that we could vaporize in seconds if we felt like it.

Call me a proud American, if you want, but I truly believe that no other nation on Earth possesses the capabilities to put on a more powerful display of underwater mermaid patriotism.

There were twenty-five million people in Yemen and at least thirteen million guns -- after the United States, it was, per capita the world's most armed nation. Men wore AKs walking down the sreet. They brought them to weddings.

Coffee became the stimulant of choice for the new nation, bought primarily from the Dutch—thus the moniker "java.

There were twenty-five million people in Yemen and at least thirteen million guns—after the United States, it was, per capita the world's most armed nation.