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Quotes About Nation

The [National Socialist] Party...is convinced that our nation can achieve permanent health only from within on the basis of the principle: The common interest before self-interest.
~ Adolf Hitler
There is just no reason why the richest nation in the world can't provide health care to all its people.
~ Christine Gregoire
America is supposed to be the richest and most powerful nation and we don't have health care for everybody.
~ Don King
We reserve our deepest respect and admiration for those who volunteer for service and give their lives to help keep our nation secure.
~ Mitt Romney
Every effort should be made to help build the new democratic nation with reconciliation and forgiveness, for the sake of Egypt and not for the benefit of a party or a group.
~ Ahmed Zewail
A nation which does not remember what it was yesterday does not know where it is today.
~ Robert E. Lee
As socialists, we are opponents of the Jews, because we see in the Hebrews the incarnation of capitalism, of the misuse of the nation's goods.
~ Joseph Goebbels
The United States is the most dishonest, ungodly, unspiritual nation that ever existed in the history of the planet.
~ Dick Gregory
If we trace the history of any nation backwards into the past, we come at last to a period of myths and traditions which eventually fade away into impenetrable darkness.
~ Bal Gangadhar Tilak
To educate the masses politically is to make the totality of the nation a reality to each citizen. It is to make the history of the nation part of the personal experience of each of its citizens.
~ Frantz Fanon
On the meeting point of two worlds, the ornament of Turkish homeland, the treasure of Turkish history, the city cherished by the Turkish nation, İstanbul, has its place in the hearts of all citizens.
~ Mustafa Kemal Ataturk
Happy is the nation without a history.
~ Cesare Beccaria
Throughout the history of our young nation, we have seen our military go bravely into battle, armed with courage and willing to make the ultimate sacrifice.
~ John M. McHugh
We are not being arrogant or complacent when we are said that our country, as a united nation, has never in its entire history, enjoyed such a confluence of encouraging possibilities.
~ Thabo Mbeki
The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history. I mean in this century's history. But we all lived in this century. I didn't live in this century.
~ Dan C. Quayle
Nations without a past are contradictions in terms. What makes a nation is the past, what justifies one nation against others is the past, and historians are the people who produce it.
~ Eric Hobsbawm
I think it is appropriate to ask whether this trend is compatible with values rooted in our nation's history, among them the high value Americans have traditionally placed on equality of opportunity.
~ Janet Yellen
The history of any nation is not only a succession of events, but also a chain of ideas.
~ Pyotr Chaadayev
The Establishment center... has led us into the stupidest and cruelest war in all history. That war is a moral and political disaster - a terrible cancer eating away at the soul of our nation.
~ George McGovern
What is national freedom if not a people's inner freedom to cultivate its abilities along the beaten path of its history?
~ Ahad Ha'am
America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to degeneration without the usual interval of civilization.
~ Georges Clemenceau
When women's true history shall have been written, her part in the upbuilding of this nation will astound the world.
~ Abigail Scott Duniway
Pearl Harbor caused our Nation to wholeheartedly commit to winning World War II, changing the course of our Nation's history and the world's future.
~ Joe Baca
A nation writes its history in the image of its ideal.
~ Abba Eban