Quotes About Nation

We're the richest nation in the world and everybody wants what we've got. And the minute we look soft, the would-be aggressors will go wild.

Sometimes the fate of an entire nation can hinge on the integrity of one man.

to tell the world of its true Centre, of the law of mutual sacrifice by which its parts are bound together. The Church exists to maintain the order of the nation and the order of the family.

Each of us—soldiers in the United States Army—took a solemn oath to defend this nation against all enemies, foreign and domestic. And defend it we did—the Cold War is over, the Evil Empire is no more, Communism is defeated.

Few things are more important to each individual's future success or to our nation's prosperity than education.

The power of "the state" emanates both from the U.S. nation and also through the relations by which it is embedded in global, transnational networks of power.

Recall that the recently resurgent, militarized U.S. police forces have grown up at the same time as the spectacular rise of the U.S. prison industry. Indeed, the buildup of the U.S. prison archipelago, with its unprecedented rate of construction is itself a kind of spectacle, a grand SWAT operation worked upon our social landscape. Both the rise of prisons and the rising up of militarized policing make a show of spectacular force in the nation today.

Lockdown America is an assemblage of powers that orchestrates this interplay of the U.S. as a nation embedded in global state structures with the various structures of domination that play throughout the nation in our current period. White racism is one of these "structures of domination." It

The so-called Green Movement is, in fact, an antiliberty and antiopportunity movement aimed at changing the nation in ways that will deprive younger people and future generations of their full potential.

And at the center of what is left of the American republic is the Constitution. The Constitution is the bedrock on which the nation was built. As Thomas Jefferson explained, "Our peculiar security is in possession of a written Constitution. Let us not make it a blank paper by construction."2

It is essential, therefore, that in republican government, representatives avoid efforts intended to change the general spirit of the nation—that is, the legislator must help preserve and protect society, not eradicate it.

THE END OF THE nineteenth century saw the rise of a movement thoroughly hostile to the underlying principles of the nation's founding—the "Progressive Movement.

The modern patriotism, the true patriotism, the only rational patriotism, is loyalty to the Nationallthe time, loyalty to the Government when it deserves it.

We are called the nation of inventors. And we are. We could still claim that title and wear its loftiest honors if we had stopped with the first thing we ever invented, which was human liberty.

The children of any nation are its future. A country, a movement, a person that does not value its youth and children does not deserve its future.

The future of this nation depends on the Christian training of our youth.

Those who control what young people are taught, and what they experience - what they see, hear, think, and believe - will determine the future course for the nation.

The future promise of any nation can be directly measured by the present prospects of its youth.

Children are like buds in a garden and should be carefully and lovingly nurtured, as they are the future of the nation and the citizens of tomorrow.

The one characteristic more essential than any other is foresight... It should be the growing nation with a future which takes the long look ahead.

Education is not a tool for development - individual, community and the nation. It is the foundation for our future. It is empowerment to make choices and emboldens the youth to chase their dreams.

A brave, frank, clean-hearted, courageous and aspiring youth is the only foundation on which the future nation can be built.

The nation seems to slouch onward into its uncertain future like some huge inarticulate beast, too much attainted by wounds and ailments to be robust, but too strong and resourceful to succumb.

For mere vengeance I would do nothing. This nation is too great to look for mere revenge. But for security of the future I would do every thing.