Quotes About Nation

ESTEBAN I always thought the English a very proper nation. ELOISE Not theatrically—their drama is extremely course. Really those Elizabethans!

Embora a auto-imagem de uma nação possa variar consideravelmente de geração para geração, e de estrato social para estrato social, mesmo se a compararmos com as imagens correspondentes de outras nações, pode-se reconhecer com muita clareza a continuidade e a diferenciação no desenvolvimento de cada uma delas.

You can tell the ideals of a nation by its advertisements.

In that thoroughly evil and violent and depraved culture, there was no hope for those children. This nation was so polluted that it as like gangrene that was taking over a person's leg, and God had to amputate the leg or the gangrene would spread and there wouldn't be anything left. In a sense, God's action was an act of mercy.

The Canada to which we really do owe loyalty is the Canada that we have failed to create.

Ein Kommandowort bewegt Armeen; das Wort Freiheit Nationen.

Well, we're barely a nation at all anymore, but I'm glad we're still in space. We have to be going some place other than down the toilet.

Distrust, not merely the old distrust of nation for nation, but a devastating distrust of human nature, gripped men like the dread of insanity.

How mad is a wet hen? In researching this, we contacted one of the nation's leading egg producers and explained the reason for calling. We said that we wanted to know how mad a wet hen becomes. The representative there said that he would call us back. After 30 minutes, the phone rang and it was the Hubbard Farms employee. He triumphantly announced that hens do not like to get wet. "They sort of flick their feathers," he said.

Great Lisbon Earthquake that, in the space of one day in 1755, took the breath out of a nation's imperial aspirations and redirected European philosophical and social thought.

The law embodies the story of a nation's development through many centuries, and it cannot be dealt with as if it contained only the axioms and corollaries of a book of mathematics.

If an election is to be determined by a majority of a single vote, and that can be procured by a party through artifice or corruption, the government may be the choice of a party, for its own ends, not of the nation, for the national good. If that solitary suffrage can be obtained by foreign nations, by flattery or by menaces .

United States, in 1825, was a real nation, with a booming economy, a sound currency, and good roads.

Americans thought of themselves as citizens of their sovereign states, not of the nation, and La Fayette was perhaps the only real American:

Red China is not the powerful nation seeking to dominate the world. Frankly, in the opinion of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, this strategy would involve us in the wrong war, at the wrong place, at the wrong time, and with the wrong enemy.

The opposite of the weightlessness that leads to a nation's collapse is revival, a return to the glory and therefore the reality and weightiness of God.

Let us put Germany in the saddle, so to speak—it already knows how to ride.

The great questions of the time are not decided by speeches and majority decisions—that was the error of 1848 and 1849—but by iron and blood.

The Constitution is the basic law of the nation that defines the duties and prerogatives of every official acting on behalf of the United States. Yet the interpretation of the Constitution by a judge has an authority and force that transcends that of the attorney general or any other official in the executive or legislative branch.

Perhaps that was what the war was really about. Twas an entire nation of runaways, America in 1861, and your place in society depended on what you had run from and when. Perhaps General McClellan was right that the war was not really about slavery. Perhaps it was a struggle between the dreams of men who would run no more.

le ha dado a la Argentina lo único de lo que puede enorgullecerse: la independencia".

Uncontrolled immigration threatens to deconstruct the nation we grew up in and convert America into a conglomeration of peoples with almost nothing in common -- not history, heroes, language, culture, faith, or ancestors. Balkanization beckons.

It seems to me the Washington Monument is a symbol of America's power. It has been the symbol of our great nation. We look at the symbol and we say 'this is one nation under God.'

Our dearest wish perhaps, some may find it utopian is to found in the Congo a Nation in which differences of race and religion will melt away, a homogeneous society composed of Belgians and Congolese who with a single impulse will link their hearts to the destinies of the country.