Quotes About Nation

The truth is that no nation can be constantly prepared to undertake a full-scale war at any moment and still hope to maintain any of the other purposes in which people are interested and for which nations are founded.

Education is a public good that builds the capacity of a nation to wisely govern itself, and promotes equal opportunity.

For a nation which has an almost evil reputation for bustle, bustle, bustle, and rush, rush, rush, we spend an enormous amount of time standing around in line in front of windows, just waiting.

Mr. Speaker, the Delaware River deepening project is important for my constituents, for our region and for the entire nation. I trust that, when they examine the facts about it, every one of my colleagues will join me in supporting it.

Ideas give life meaning. Our minds need ideas the way our bodies need food. We are starved for visions, hungry for understanding. We are caught up in the routines of life, distracted occasionally by those activities we call "recreation" and "entertainment." What we as a nation have lost is the joy of thinking, the challenge of understanding, the inspirations as well as the consolations of philosophy.

Nothing is more important to a nation than its history. It is the earth upon which any society stands.

If I were convinced that any nation had made up its mind to dominate the world by fear of its force, I should feel that it must be resisted. Under such a domination, life for people who believe in liberty would not be worth living. But war is a fearful thing, and we must be very clear, before we embark on it, that it is really the great issues that are at stake, and that the call to risk everything in their defence, when all the consequences are weighed, is irresistible.

Who would rule a nation when he could have easier work, such as carrying water uphill in a sieve?

An evolutionary morality argues that The North was right in pursuing that war because a nation is a higher form of evolution than a human body and the principle of human equality is an even higher form than a nation

A small nation's fight for freedom from tyranny and a deadly foe Robert Reid – White Light Red Fire

El problema no es político. A Mayer Amschel Rothschild (1744-1812), fundador del Banco Rothschild, se le atribuye la siguiente frase: "Denme el control del dinero de una nación y no me importará quién haga las leyes.

Non passa mai, per gli uomini e le nazioni, il tempo di rendersi ridicoli e venire alle mani.

God is America's king.

... a nation without humor is not only sad but dangerous.

The black nation of Egypt is the only country that has a science named after its culture: Egyptology

A prolonged war in which a nation takes part is bound to impoverish the breed, since the character of the breed depends on the men who are left.

The day the nation voted on whether I'd live or die, I woke up with a headache.

Sovereignty unconditionally belongs neither to the people of the nation nor to some supernatural power but to the human mind, to the science and to the high ethical values!

We got dreams and we got the right to chase 'em, Look at the nation, that's a crooked smile braces couldn't even straighten.

In a nation where the disbelievers sought Heaven from the idols, the Messenger of Allah [Prophet Muhammad] taught them that Heaven can be found through a simple smile.

May Heaven be propitious, and smile on the cause of my country.

Why don't we just sit and stare and do nothing? Nothing at all for a while I like the way you smile I could be your state and I could be your nation It doesn't get better than home, now does it?

No Statue of Liberty ever greeted our arrival in this country...we did not, in fact, come to the United States at all. The United States came to us.

Democracy cannot be exported to some other place. This must be a product of internal domestic development in a society.