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Quotes About Nation

Over and over I thought we lack the pressures that make men strong and the anguish that makes men great. The pressures are debts, the desires are for more material toys and the anguish is boredom. Through time, the nation has become a discontented land.
~ John Steinbeck
The only condition of submission is to submit!… One nation, under one Government, without slavery, has been ordained, and shall stand." Some
~ Unknown
Don't read your reviews, A*M*E*R*I*C*A: you are the only land.
~ John Updike
Our sacred duty is to proclaim and preach the gospel of salvation to all people from every nation.
~ Lailah Gifty Akita
Follow the urge of the spirit of God into the next destination in our journey of faith as a Nation.
~ Sunday Adelaja
As the family goes, so goes the nation and so goes the whole world in which we live.
~ John Paul II
I'm extremely proud of my family's record of public service to Massachusetts and the nation.
~ Joseph P. Kennedy III
The foundation of the world lies in the nation. The foundation of the nation lies in the family. The foundation of the family lies in the individual.
~ Mencius
When a nation or family is about to flourish, there are sure to be happy omens; and when it is about to perish, there are sure to be unlucky omens.
~ Confucius
We are an American family and we rise and fall together as one nation.
~ Barack Obama
If a well-constituted individual refrains from blazoning aught amiss or calamitous in his family, a nation in the like circumstance may without reproach be equally discreet.
~ Herman Melville
In the formative days of the Republic, the directing influence the Bible exercised upon the fathers of the Nation is conspicuously evident.
~ Franklin D. Roosevelt
Our Founding Fathers understood that our country would survive and flourish if our Nation was committed to good character and an unyielding dedication to liberty and justice for all.
~ George W. Bush
I believe that only through a truly educated citizenry can the ideals that inspired the Founding Fathers of our nation be preserved and perpetuated.
~ David O. McKay
We do not deride the fears of prospering white America. A nation of violence and private property has every reason to dread the violated and the deprived.
~ June Jordan
We are turning into a nation of whimpering slaves to Fear
~ Hunter S. Thompson
Uncertainty and fear and ignorance about immigrants, about people who are different, has a history as old as our Nation.
~ Luis Gutierrez
I think our nation is at a pivotal point. Too many people fear that we are losing the sense of limitless possibility that has always defined this nation.
~ Carly Fiorina
America is such a nation of suppressed emotion, and when you arrive in L.A., you can smell the fear. It's the most alien country I've ever been to.
~ Helen McCrory
Our success as a nation is not measured by how many years we have governed or how many wars we have won. It is measured by the quality of life which we have created for the society that our ideals were founded upon.
~ Unknown
To put the world in order, we must first put the nation in order; to put the nation in order, we must put the family in order; to put the family in order, we must cultivate our personal life; and to cultivate our personal life, we must first set our hearts right.
~ Confucius
A nation which has forgotten the quality of courage which in the past has been brought to public life is not as likely to insist upon or regard that quality in its chosen leaders today - and in fact we have forgotten.
~ John F Kennedy
The cooking of Italy is really the cooking of regions that long antedate the Italian nation, regions that until 1861 were part of sovereign and usually hostile states, sharing few cultural traditions and no common spoken language
~ Marcella Hazan
We chose more freedom instead of more government. We chose the principles of our founding to solve the challenges of our time. We chose a special man to lead us in a special time. We chose Mitt Romney to lead our nation.
~ Marco Rubio