Quotes About Nation

And Zee was holed up in the fae reservation in Walla Walla and had been since one of the Gray Lords killed a US senator's son and declared the fae to be a separate and sovereign nation.

Perhaps we as a nation need a rest too - a breathing space, an amnesty, a season of mourning, a month of indulgence, a year of reprieve, a century of celebration. A laying down of arms, a laying on of hands. A long, cool rain of forgiveness.

Three millions of people, armed in the holy cause of liberty, and in such a country as that which we possess, are invincible by any force which our enemy can send against us. Beside, sir, we shall not fight our battles alone. There is a just God who presides over the destinies of Nations, and who will raise up friends to fight our battles for us.

There is a just God, who presides over the destinies the nation, and who will raise up friends to fight our battles for us. The battle, sir, is not to the strong alone, it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave. If we were base enough to desire it, there is no retreat but in submission and slavery. Our chains our forged. There clanking can be heard from Boston. Besides, sir, we have no election.

If we reach the cities, we will reach the nation. If we fail in the cities, they will become a cesspool that infects the entire nation.

We live in a profoundly religious country, and we are a prosperous people. But we are also a broken people—a people who have pursued the God of our own imaginations, believing we can re-create His character to suit our own practical problems. The result? We are the most religious nation in the world, but, like the Laodiceans, many are lukewarm.

Security is still the most important issue facing Washington state residents and millions of Americans - the security of having a job, of access to affordable health care, of a quality education, and of protecting our homeland and defending our nation.

Do you know what happened the last time a nation listened to a bush?" Honey asks. No one says a word. "Its people wandered in the desert for forty years.

The American people will need to begin living the virtues, values, and principles of self-government in their own personal lives and daily actions before they can expect to live them as a nation.

if Disneyland was indeed the Happiest Place on Earth, you'd either keep it a secret or the price of admission would be free and not equivalent to the yearly per capita income of a small sub-Saharan African nation like Detroit.

But the nation of America isn't the people of God; we don't live in a theocracy. The sooner Christians realize this, the sooner the church can make a deeper impact as salt and light in society.

When the Allies bombed the Italians on the island of Pantelleria in June, 1943, General Spaatz, of the United States Air Corps, concluded that bombing "can reduce to the point of surrender any first-class nation now in existence, within six months.

The very strength of a nation eventually proves to be its weakness.

Permanent superiority has never been realized by any nation in history. After the rise comes the fall.

I have a Florida concealed firearms permit. But then, who doesn't? We have about nine hundred thousand residents licensed to carry concealed weapons, tops in the nation. Take that, Texas!

What do you think it's worth, Lassiter, finding and returning the priceless heritage of a nation?" "How about a Boy Scout merit badge and a thank-you note from Yeltsin?" Above us

Douglass had to dismantle what Americans have always treasured most: their innocence, and the sense that their history was so exceptional that they had managed to avoid the problems other nations faced.

The intention of this book is to explain how an ill-educated, psychologically unbalanced nonentity succeeded in mesmerizing an entire nation,

By failing seriously to confront the most predicable economic crisis in our nation's history, the President's policies are committing us and our children to a diminished future.

It's a path that grows government, restricts freedom and liberty and compromises those values, those Judeo-Christian, Western civilization values that made us such a great and exceptional nation in the first place.

To survive in peace and harmony, united and strong, we must have one people, one nation, one flag.

Blacks were "not yet freed from the bonds of injustice," Kennedy observed. They were "not yet freed from social and economic oppression." Then he added an insight that Black abolitionists, civil rights activists, and organizers had advocated for centuries: "And this Nation, for all its hopes and all its boasts, will not be fully free until all its citizens are free.

A genuinely seismic event in American history, the Birmingham protests cleaved the nation in two, forcing citizens of all backgrounds to take honest measure of the intersection between race and democracy in national life.

in this case, the blood of the Passover Lamb — means the difference between life and death. To ignore the requirements whereby the sign would be present is to invite death and destruction into your home and family — and your nation. So, to some degree, the choice to live or to die is left to us.