Quotes About Nation

Rhetoric is a poor substitute for action, and we have trusted only to rhetoric. If we are really to be a great nation, we must not merely talk; we must act big.

Our nation is well equipped to make the transition. We have an abundance of natural resources like wind, natural gas, solar and geothermal.

America is a nation with many flaws, but hopes so vast that only the cowardly would refuse to acknowledge them.

I have no doubt that the nation has suffered more from undue secrecy than from undue disclosure. The government takes good care of itself.

How can you hope to build up a nation by fragmenting its politics into opposing camps? Whatever one group builds, the other will endeavour to destroy.

When the president during the campaign said he was against nation building, I didn't realize he meant our nation.

The nation which reposes on the pillow of political confidence, will sooner or later end its political existence in a deadly lethargy.

The Church is larger than any one nation or any one political scene.

Woe to that land that's governed by a child.

Politics isn't just a game of clashing parties and competing interests. The right reason is to challenge the status quo, to serve the common good, and to leave this nation better than we found it.

This country has gotten where it is in spite of politics, not by the aid of it. That we have carried as much political bunk as we have and still survived shows we are a super nation.

A nation is a detour of nature to arrive at five or six great men- yes, and then to get around them.

I see myself as an old man and an unqualified teacher to the nation. I think being a teacher is probably the most important thing you can be in politics.

In a democracy, dynasty politics is wrong. We need to free the state and nation from it.

Nations are born out of travail and suffering

The nation that leads the clean energy economy will be the nation that leads the global economy.

Outrage is easy, cheap, and oversold. The nation needs less anger and more thoughtful reflection, less shouting and more listening, less dissembling and more honesty.

I think the presidency is much too serious a thing to just play politics with.

It is, of course, the merest truism to say a party is of use only so far as it serves the nation.

Production does not consist in things laboriously made, but in things serviceably consumable; and the question for the nation is not how much labour it employs, but how much life it produces.

Imagine all contradictions, all possible incompatibilities--you will find them in the government, in the law-courts, in the churches, in the public shows of this droll nation.

Indian democracy's greatest strength is that we have always put the nation above politics.

Affirming belief that America is an exceptional nation has become a test of patriotism in American politics.

Nation needs soldiers, politics needs civilians.