Quotes About Nation

So it was that we soaped ourselves in sadness and we rinsed ourselves with hope, and for all that we believed almost every rumor we heard, almost all of us refused to believe that our nation was dead.

So it was that we soaped ourselves in sadness and we rinsed ourselves wit hope, and for all that we believed almost every rumor we heard, almost all of us refused to believe that our nation was dead.

Strong and healthy, that's what these twins will be. They'll need to be. This country isn't for the weak or the fat.

Like the homeless, refugees are living embodiments of a disturbing possibility: that human privileges are quite fragile, that one's home, family, and nation are one catastrophe away from being destroyed.

From a single crime know the nation.

To the man who has begun to hate himself the gate to degeneration has already opened; and the same is true of a nation.

No nation compared in scale with the meticulously organized, highly prioritized, deliberate atrocities in Germany between 1933 and 1945.

We must remain aware that, despite the veneer of civilization and the outward manifestations of culture and refinement, insidious atavistic impulses remain in every country and no nation has a monopoly on atrocity.

Can a nation be free if it oppresses other nations? It cannot.

Jefferson felt it should be the goal of the whole nation to use education and every other means to stimulate and encourage those citizens who clearly exhibited a special talent for public service. He felt one of the greatest threats to the new government would be the day when the best qualified people refused to undertake the tedious, arduous, and sometimes unpleasant task of filling important public offices.

The Founders believed these same principles would work for any nation. The key was using the government to protect equal rights, not to provide equal things.

The Founders also warned that the only way for the nation to prosper was to have equal protection of "rights," and not allow the government to get involved in trying to provide equal distribution of "things.

The wealth of a nation depends on its people, management, and government, more than on its natural resources.

A nation is a society united by a delusion about its ancestry and a common fear of its neighbors.

Most American citizens do not think of themselves as living in an empire but instead in a great nation that mostly does good things. The occasional failing, like the toppling of a government in a violent coup or the murder of civilians in an air strike, is "not who we are.

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.

Any nation that thinks more of its ease and comfort than its freedom will soon lose its freedom and the ironical thing about it is that it will lose its ease and comfort too.

But it must be realized that, when dealing with an utterly ruthless enemy who has clearly expressed his intention of wiping this nation out of existence, there is no room for any scruple or compunction about the methods to be employed in preventing him.

Christmas is forced upon a reluctant and disgusted nation by the shopkeepers and the press; on its own merits it would wither and shrivel in the fiery breath of universal hatred.

Many communities throughout the nation still do not have the communications infrastructure in place for first responders to communicate with one another during an emergency.

Power without a nation's confidence is nothing.

Allowing ourselves to become a nation of silent, secretive, timid citizens is likely to result in a system of democracy and justice that is neither very democratic nor very just.

All free peoples are deeply impressed by the courage and steadfastness of the Greek nation.

I bow my head to the victims of terrorism. I am highly impressed of the courage of New York residents. The great city and the great American nation are to win!