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Quotes About Nation

The American flag is the most recognized symbol of freedom and democracy in the world.
~ Virginia Foxx
I belong to a nation which over the past centuries has experienced many hardships and reverses. The world reacted with silence or with mere sympathy when Polish frontiers were crossed by invading armies and the sovereign state had to succumb to brutal force.
~ Lech Walesa
For us, sovereignty of Syria is very important.
~ Haider al-Abadi
Assad is the president of Syria. He enjoys fairly effective control over his country.
~ Ehud Olmert
According to the FBI and the director of national intelligence, Syria's becoming a perfect platform to strike our nation. I've got a very simple strategy as your president against ISIL. Whatever it takes, as long as it takes, to defeat them.
~ Lindsey Graham
Australia is not a secular country. It is a free country. This is a nation where you have the freedom to follow any belief system you choose.
~ Scott Morrison
Mr. Speaker, our Nation depends on immigrants' labor, and I hope we can create an immigration system as dependable as they are.
~ Luis Gutierrez
Restoring and maintaining a great nation's fiscal health will require not just sound arguments and an engaged public but something more. It will require an electoral system that encourages our representatives to place the long-term interests of the public ahead of parochial special interests.
~ Alan K. Simpson
Democratic systems based on the concept of a homogeneous nation such as England are very definitely not applicable to heterogeneous countries such as India, and this simple fact is the root cause of India's constitutional ills.
~ Muhammad Ali Jinnah
The Jewish nation is indeed, the heart of the world and there is no reason for the existence of empires, kings, rulers, masses or systems aside from their reaction to the Jewish people.
~ Meir Kahane
I am poor and naked, but I am the chief of the nation. We do not want riches but we do want to train our children right. Riches would do us no good. We could not take them with us to the other world. We do not want riches. We want peace and love.
~ Red Cloud
I am poor and naked but I am the chief of a nation. We do not want riches but we do want to train our children right. Riches would do us no good. We could not take them with us to the other world. We do not want riches. We want peace and love.
~ Red Cloud
You are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people belonging to God, that you may declare the praises of him who called you out of darkness into his wonderful light" (1 Peter 2:9,
~ Reggie McNeal
There is no cure for the pride of a virtuous nation but pure religion.
~ Reinhold Niebuhr
Truths are more likely to have been discovered by one man than by nation
~ Rene Descartes
Cuando la conciencia del individuo queda reducida a reflejar la conciencia colectiva del grupo social, el pensamiento se hace siervo de los dogmas colectivos; el hombre se recluye en el organismo superior de la nación o clase, y el concepto de lo humano se disuelve
~ Rene Descartes
A Reggae education for a healing of the nation
~ Ricardo A Scott
Washington offered a republican substitute for the dignity of royalty.
~ Richard Brookhiser
Iselin is a man who shall forever stand guard at the door of the mind to protect the people of this great nation from facts.
~ Richard Condon
Toward the end of the plague, yellow journalism had spread a cancerous dread of vampires to all corners of the nation. He could remember himself the rash of pseudo-scientific articles that veiled an out-and-out fright campaign designed to sell papers. There was something grotesquely amusing in that; the frenetic attempt to sell papers while the world died. Not that all newspapers had done that. Those papers that had lived in honesty and integrity died the same way.
~ Richard Matheson
What could be saved, if the Flag of the American Nation were to perish?
~ Richard McKenna
But even a nation of laws must understand the limits of legalism.
~ Richard Perle
She tried to grin, grateful. Of course: fund raising. The core of every job description in the nation, from schoolchildren on up to the president.
~ Richard Powers
remember that men can starve from a lack of self-realization as much as they can from a lack of bread! And they can murder for it, too! Did we not build a nation, did we not wage war and conquer in the name of a dream to realize our personalities and to make those realized personalities secure!
~ Richard Wright