Quotes About Nation

The hardest lesson of my life has come to me late. It is that a nation can win freedom without its people becoming free.

I don't mind if my life goes in the service of the nation. If I die, every drop of my blood will invigorate the nation.

A new era will dawn in Africa, when the impoverished masses of a nation rise up to rescue their right to a decent life from the hands of the ruling oligarchies.

A nation which makes the final sacrifice for life and freedom does not get beaten.

The honor of a nation is its life. Deliberately to abandon it is to commit an act of political suicide.

Fascism means first of all defending your nation against the dangers that threaten it. It means the destruction of these dangers and the opening of a free way to life and glory for your nation.

All the president cared about was using Ukraine—this battered, vulnerable, embattled nation—to help him get reelected.

Renan has the last word: "Man is a slave neither of his race nor his language, nor of his religion, nor of the course of rivers nor of the direction taken by mountain chains. A large aggregate of men, healthy in mind and warm of heart, creates the kind of moral conscience which we call a nation.

they are left exposed to internalize views of the United States as a nation innately and exceptionally good, and a pure beacon of equality and justice. The less critical our children are of such a narrative, the more difficult it will be for them to really stand up for justice.

The Union as it was, the Constitution as it is,

Cependant Quenu se rappelait une phrase de Charvet, cette fois, qui déclarait que ces bourgeois empâtés, ces boutiquiers engraissés, prêtant leur soutien à un gouvernement d' indigestion générale, devaient êtres jetés les premiers au cloaque. C' était grâce à eux, grâce à leur égoïsme du ventre, que le despotisme s' imposait et rongeait une nation.

A nation which receives a culture ready made, and not elaborated by itself, condemns itself to intellectual sterility; at most it can only hope to imitate well.

The Heart is the Capital of the Mind— The Mind is a single State— The Heart and the Mind together make A single Continent— One—is the Population— Numerous enough— This ecstatic Nation Seek—it is Yourself.

Look around you, Mr. Groyne. This is where every nation draws its first breath. Women have been paying the blood tax since time began.

Ventilation and sanitation will be our nation's salvation

This is where every nation draws its first breath. Women have been paying the blood tax since time began.

Poor America, of what avail is all her wealth, if the individuals comprising the nation are wretchedly poor?

The game of history is usually played by the best and the worst over the heads of the majority in the middle. The reason that the inferior elements of a nation can exert a marked influence on its course is that they are wholly without reverence toward the present. They see their lives and the present as spoiled beyond remedy and they are ready to waste and wreck both: hence their recklessness and their will to chaos and anarchy.

Faith in a holy cause is to a considerable extent a substitute for the lost faith in ourselves. [...] The less justified a man is in claiming excellence for his own self, the more ready is he to claim all excellence for his nation, his religion, his race or his holy cause.

A nation's preoccupation with history is not infrequently an effort to obtain a passport for the future. Often it is a forged passport.

The inert mass of a nation, for instance, is in its middle section. The decent, average people who do the nation's work in cities and on the land are worked upon and shaped by minorities at both ends—the best and the worst.1

The discarded and rejected are often the raw material of a nation's future.

Ethical principles stand above the existence of the nation and that by adhering to these principles an individual belongs to the community of all those who share, who have shared, and who will share this belief.

Parce qu'il y a toujours eu, dans le discours de ceux qui portent traditionnellement les idées du conservatisme, une tonalité identitaire – souvent fondée sur la religion, la nation, la terre, la civilisation, la race, ou un mélange de tout cela.