Quotes About Nation

You know how impossible it is, in short, to have a free nation if it is a military nation and under military orders

Just what is it that America stands for? If she stands for one thing more than another it is for the sovereignty of self-governing people.

It is ... particularly true of constitutional government that its atmosphere is opinion .... It does not remain fixed in any unchanging form, but grows with the growth and is altered with the change of the nation's needs and purposes.

There is more of a nation's politics to be got out of its poetry than out of all its systematic writers on public affairs and constitutions.

if Germany won it would change the course of our civilization and make the United States a military nation [and] it would check his policy for a better international ethical code

I would rather belong to a poor nation that was free than to a rich nation that had ceased to be in love with liberty. But we shall not be poor if we love liberty, because the nation that loves liberty truly sets every man free to do his best and be his best.

We can afford to exercise the self-restraint of a really great nation which realizes its own strength and scorns to misuse it.

There are forces all around you who wish to exploit division, rob you of your freedom, and tell you what to think. But young folks can rekindle the weary spirit of a slumbering nation.

The nation and the state depend on each other.

Posterity has never made the grave's embrace less cruel. It simply assuages our fear of death, because there is no better cure for out inevitable morality then the illusion of a beautiful eternity. But there is one illusion I still hold dear: that is the thought of an enlightened nation. That is the only future I still dream of.

La postérité n'a jamais rendu l'étreinte des tombes moins dure. Elle a juste le mérite de modérer notre peur de la mort puisqu'il n'y a pas de thérapie mieux appropriée à notre inexorable finitude que l'illusion d'une belle éternité. .. Cependant, il en existe une qui me tient à cÅ"ur : la mémoire d'une nation éclairée. c'est la seule postérité qui me fasse rêver.

Although he was less successful in turning back the New Deal than he had been in promoting the progressive agenda that preceded and prepared the nation for it, he set the terms for the counter-progressive ideological assault that would enter—and, at times, dominate—the nation's political discourse from the mid-1930s onward.

Suki is the nation's ideal girlfriend, a woman for whom bubbliness is a way of life, verging on a disorder.

Apparently the nation's future lay not in innovation and development but in global finance and telesales, in the entertainment industry and coffee shops.

My impression is that Australia is the nation whose dynamics in relation to evangelicalism—in terms of both religious life and worldly politics—most resemble those of the United States.

The one thing our nation needs desperately is law-abiding citizens, not just those who abide by human laws but those who abide by divine laws. Our

At the bottom of all the political pontificating is a simple question: Will we be the city upon the hill or a nation of tribalistic assholes?

The cross-fertilization of different images, he hoped, might help to disperse the various ills he and the nation faced.

His chosen medium—writing—had, he believed, a high potential for holding America together. America was a nation of readers, known worldwide for its high literacy rates. At midcentury, a full 90 percent of white American adults could read, as opposed to about 60 percent in England. Whitman crowed hyperbolically: "In regard to intelligence, education, knowledge, the masses of [English] people, in comparison with the masses of the U.S., are at least two hundred years behind us.

One of Brown's slaveholding hostages at Harpers Ferry, Lewis Washington, a descendant of the nation's first president

Then he defined patriotism: "The best friend of a nation is he who most faithfully rebukes her for her sins—and he her worst enemy who, under the specious . . . garb of patriotism seeks to excuse, palliate or defend them.

By ignoring how white people's racial habits have been shaped by the racial practices of a nation deceived by the narrative of racial difference, white Christianity has failed to disciple men and women into the kingdom of God.

Our nation is being led astray by ungodly judges, mayors and governors, who are given to change, defying the Constitution and substituting their own wicked agendas.

To make the private into something public is an action that has terrific repercussions in the pre-invented world. The government has the job of maintaining the day to day illusion of the one tribe nation. Each public disclosure of a public reality becomes something of a magnet that can attract others with a similar frame of reference. Thus, each public disclosure of a fragment of private reality serves as a dismantling tool against the illusion of a one tribe nation.