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Quotes About Nation

Executive power in any nation arguably has more in common with executive power in another country than with the citizens it should serve.
~ Nick Harkaway
The god can no more exist without his people than the nation without its god.
~ William Robertson Smith
Lebanon does not have a powerful army.
~ Richard Engel
Let us think of ourselves not as 'yes' and 'no' Scots but simply as Scots, and let us be a nation, united again.
~ Gordon Brown
Letting non-citizens vote jeopardizes our principles as a nation. They vote only for entitlement, not for their own responsibility as citizens.
~ Charlie Kirk
To manage your country, there's no bigger job.
~ Steve Bruce
I work on 'A Question of Sport' which comes out of Manchester and you see how it's important to take parts of the BBC to other parts of the nation.
~ Sue Barker
The fascist synthesis did not view Italy as a society divided by class but rather as a unified country in which all sectors of society could come together. The fascists replaced the old Marxist divide between unproductive capitalists and productive labor with the single category of the productive nation.
~ Dinesh D'Souza
It's all very well to talk about the nation of producers and the interests of the nation, but who decides what its true interests are? Socialists claim to be in favor of equitable redistribution of income and wealth, but who determines what is equitable and does the actual redistribution? To these questions, the fascists answered: we do, through the instrument of the powerful centralized state. And this is also, in America, the answer that today's progressives give.
~ Dinesh D'Souza
When you fuse the two ideas of "nation" and "socialism," what you get is National Socialism.
~ Dinesh D'Souza
The progressive pretense is that these people, who have created virtually nothing, are actually the real creators of the nation's wealth.
~ Dinesh D'Souza
As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide.
~ Dinesh D'Souza
What people discard could make a nation
~ Don DeLillo
We are a nation of egoists. It is our glory, but it will be our destruction, for none of us can be made to concern ourselves about something as abstract as "the common good". The best of us can rise to feeling concern for our families, but as a nation we are incapable of more.
~ Donna Leon
We are a nation of egoists. It is our glory, but it will be our destruction, for none of us can be made to concern ourselves about something as abstract as "the common good".
~ Donna Leon
The Scriptures, beginning with the Book of Judges, teach a philosophy of human government, which you will find was true of God's people and which has been true of every nation. The first step in a nation's decline is religióus apostasy, a turning from the living and true God. The second step downward for a nation is moral awfulness. The third step downward is political anarchy.
~ J. Vernon McGee
Sin, in short, is that vast moral disease which affects the whole human race, of every rank and class and name and nation and people and tongue, a disease from which there never was but one born of woman that was free. Need I say that One was Christ Jesus the Lord?
~ J.C. Ryle
You might say that if you were so holy, you would be unlike other people. I answer, "You are right. You ought to be different from other people. Christ's true servants always were unlike the world around them – a separate nation, a peculiar people – and you must be, too, if you would be saved!
~ J.C. Ryle
when you know how a nation deals with the Bible you may generally know what a nation is.
~ J.C. Ryle
I propose that complex systems cannot be controlled or even predicted; first world nations' leaders only perform in a political theater of public deception; someone is at the helm and everything will be fine, just be a good citizen or subject and go back to your favorite sitcom, football team, or reality TV program.
~ Unknown
Making the nation safe for white people could be more easily accomplished with the help of a whitewashed tale of its origins.
~ Unknown
But my patriotism goes for something beyond what we have. We don't have something that I want to die for - anymore.
~ Jack Bowman
We are not so much defined by the wars we fight across the globe, but by the wars we have fought within ourselves as a nation.
~ Jack Gantos
Our goals for this nation must be nothing less than to double the size of our economy and bring prosperity and jobs, ownership and equality of opportunity to all Americans, especially those living in our nation's pockets of poverty.
~ Jack Kemp