Quotes About Nation

When you look at America and its diversity, it's not a coincidence it's the best country on earth. Subtract that diversity, and it wouldn't be the greatest nation.

But this is the great danger America faces. That we will cease to be one nation and become instead a collection of interest groups: city against suburb, region against region, individual against individual. Each seeking to satisfy private wants.

It is a national tragedy of incalculable proportions....What is wrong with the United States that it can provide the environment for such an act? There is sickness in the nation when political differences cannot be accepted and settled in the democratic way. (from The St. Louis Post-Dispatch)

If we are the greatest nation the sun ever shone upon, it would seem to be mainly because we have been able to goad our wage-earners to this pitch of frenzy.

The hamster queen, looking around the room, declared "I am going to bed" in much the same tones that one would declare war on a rival nation.

Without free, self-respecting, and autonomous citizens there can be no free and independent nations. Without internal peace, that is, peace among citizens and between the citizens and the state, there can be no guarantee of external peace.

My favorite thing about the United States? Lots of Americans, one America.

We sleep peacefully at night, cradled by the big strong hands of America.

On the wisdom with which we bring science to bear in the war against disease, in the creation of new industries, and in the strengthening of our Armed Forces depends in large measure our future as a nation.

The true champions of a nation's freedom are those who reject the limitations of stereotypes and affirm the rich diversity of human nature to be found.

course, Child A who takes all the risk. If you're a public-spirited parent then you perhaps won't mind risking your child's health for the sake of the State. But it would be nice if they told you all this, wouldn't it? Maybe they don't because, deep, deep down, they rather suspect that most parents would be touched by unpatriotic reluctance when expected to risk their child's health for the sake of the nation (or, more accurately, our EU region).

We are a nation in which freedom is alive in the squares and streets, in the daily work of the communications media, in the open relationship between the governing and the governed.

Obama is thoroughly mixed up with all these things he's got. He's got to solve Libya. He's got to solve Afghanistan. He's everywhere. And this nation, I don't know why it's not showing the leadership and capacity to attend different issues at the same time.

I believe the pogroms of November '38 made less impression on the nation than cutting the bar of chocolate for Christmas.

Ah, woman. She is an enigma. An anomaly of perfection & irony. She can lure angels into her arms & give birth to a nation of ideologies.

My anxious recollections, my sympathetic feeling, and my best wishes are irresistibly excited whensoever, in any country, I see an oppressed nation unfurl the banners of freedom.

The United States is the only country with a known birthday.

The trouble with you and me my friend, is the trouble with this nation, too many blessings, too little Appreciation.

If you are to be an effective nation builder, make it your business, to understand what is really happening in the economy, both nationally and globally.

When trust is lost, a nation's ability to transact business is palpably undermined.

The aeroplane is an invention of the devil and will never play any part in such a serious business as the defence of the nation, my boy!

The function and responsibility of the President is to set before the American people the unfinished business, the things we must do if we are going to succeed as a nation.

A nation is safer and progressive when the citizens own or are involved in healthy businesses that can aid them enjoy good livelihood without any fear for tomorrow.

America... just a nation of two hundred million used car salesmen with all the money we need to buy guns and no qualms about killing anybody else in the world who tries to make us uncomfortable.