Quotes About Nation

Providence has given to our people the choice of their ruler, and it is the duty, as well as the privilege and interest of our Christian nation to select and prefer Christians for their rulers. John Jay First Chief Justice of the US Supreme Court.

the nation as a whole has no contact with reality. That is only one of the reasons why I have always been forced to exist on the fringes of its society, consigned to the Limbo reserved for those who do know reality when they see it.

but who are we to question the motives of these giants of commerce whose whims rule the course of our nation.

Her logic was a combination of half-truths and clichés, her worldview a compound of misconceptions deriving from a history of our nation as written from the perspective of a subway tunnel.

A incapacidade de contactar com a realidade é a característica de toda a «arte» americana. Qualquer semelhança entre a arte americana e a natureza americana é pura coincidência, mas isso acontece apenas porque a nação, no seu conjunto, não tem contacto com a realidade.

This failure to make contact with reality is, however, characteristic of almost all of America's "art." Any connection between American art and American nature is purely coincidental, but this is only because the nation as a whole has no contact with reality.

With the precedents of Soviet unilateralism in Europe all too clearly in mind, there was no desire within the new Truman administration to see something similar repeated in Northeast Asia. Here, then, the Americans embraced Stalin's own equation of blood with influence. They had done most of the fighting in the Pacific War. They alone, therefore, would occupy the nation that had started it.

Wilson declared, "It isn't an army we must shape and train for war, it is a nation.

I had become increasingly concerned in recent years about the lack of civics education in our nation's schools. In recent years, the schools have stopped teaching it. And it's unfortunate.

Out of the public schools comes the greatness of the nation.

Here is not merely a nation but a teeming nation of nations.

Second, this law has become a special symbol of our Nation's most important purpose: to fulfill the individual - his freedom, his happiness, his promise.

The strength of the United States is not the gold at Fort Knox or the weapons of mass destruction that we have, but the sum total of the education and the character of our people.

We are in an environmental crisis which threatens the survival of this nation, and of the world as a suitable place of human habitation.

The fact that the federal government is the nation's greatest environmental villain has not stopped activists from reflexively turning to politicians to "protect the environment."

Our nation has both an obligation and self-interest in facing head-on the serious environmental, economic and national security threat posed by global warming.

As a public person, I've always tried to reflect what is embodied in our defining ideals as a nation about equality and fairness and justice and so forth.

I believe the destiny of your generation - and your nation - is a rendezvous with excellence.

As lawmakers, we must assure the people of America that our nation will not experience the nightmare of the 2000 presidential election.

The ordinary affairs of a nation offer little difficulty to a person of any experience.

A nation that is unfit to fight cannot, from experience, prove the virtue of not fighting.

From experience I can say that we can make our nation corruption free. Only promises won't help...Irade Nek Hone Chahiye.

A Failure in this Duty did once involve our Nation in all the Horrors of Rebellion and Civil War.

What stands if Freedom fail? What dies of England live?