Quotes About Nation

History has no record of a nation having adopted nonviolent resistance.

For history is to the nation as memory is to the individual.

The UK is not going to leave the European Union. Of course not. We are inextricably wound up with Europe. In terms of culture, history and geography, we are a European nation.

We must be the great arsenal of Democracy.

The history of a movement, the history of a nation, the history of a race is the guide-post of that movement's destiny, that nation's destiny, that race's destiny.

Rivers run through our history and folklore, and link us as a people.... We are a nation rich in rivers.

There is no record in the history of a nation that ever gained anything valuable by being unable to defend itself.

Americans are the nicest, most generous, and sentimental people on earth. Yet Americans have killed more unborn children than any nation in history.

The Declaration of Independence is a sacred part of American history.

But all history has taught us the grim lesson that no nation has ever been successful in avoiding the terrors of war by refusing to defend its rights - by attempting to placate aggression.

A nation does not create the historians it deserves; the historians are far more likely to create the nation.

There is humor in the specter of the worst disaster in our nation's history. All I have to do is sweep away the debris of shock to find it.

In fact, there are more homeowners today than ever before in the history of our Nation and more minority homeowners than ever before in the history of our Nation.

History is not the proper midden for digging up novelties. Perhaps that is one reason why a nation bent on novelty ignores it.

It took the first 204 years of our Nation's history to accumulate $1 trillion in debt. And now we are doing that every 2 or 3 years.

In the history of the nation, there has never been a political party so ridiculous as today's Democrats. It's as if all the brain-damaged people in America got together and formed a voting bloc.

The Holocaust may belong to history, but it was the price we paid to become a nation. Auschwitz was like a cradle of death that enabled future generations of Israelis to live.

Bush and Inhofe will go down in history with other leaders such as Herbert Hoover and Neville Chamberlain who were blind to their nation's gravest threats.

If every nation gets the government it deserves, every generation writes the history which corresponds with its view of the world.

America is never wholly herself unless she is engaged in high moral principle. We as a people have such a purpose today. It is to make kinder the face of the nation and gentler the face of the world.

The United States of America will sound as pompously in the world or in history as The Kingdom of Great Britain.

Tell me how much a nation knows about its own language, and I will tell you how much that nation knows about its own identity.

Americans believe with all their heart, the vast majority of them, and the vast majority of Floridians, that the United States of America is simply the single greatest nation in all of human history.

THIS dust was once the Man, / Gentle, plain, just and resolute—under whose cautious hand, / Against the foulest crime in history known in any land or age, / Was saved the Union of These States.