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Quotes About Nation

The right of a nation to kill a tyrant in case of necessity can no more be doubted than to hang a robber, or kill a flea.
~ John Adams
We are of course a nation of differences. Those differences don't make us weak. They're the source of our strength.
~ Jimmy Carter
As an American, I want to see our nation recapture the strength and unity it once had when we fought the enemy instead of ourselves.
~ Margaret Chase Smith
The nation is only as strong as the collective strength of its individuals.
~ Jeremiah Denton
The strength of a nation, especially of a republican nation, is in the intelligent and well ordered homes of the people.
~ Lydia Sigourney
The nation becomes the master of its fate not only when it has many good sons, but also when it possesses enough strength to restrain its bad ones.
~ Roman Dmowski
The customs of that most criminal nation (Israel) have gained such strength that they have now been received in all lands. The conquered have given laws to the conquerors.
~ Seneca the Younger
The great and admirable strength of America consists in this, that America is truly the American people.
~ Jacques Maritain
The people are the foundation of the nation. Our only chance for a lasting peace on earth: the release of the strength of the common man.
~ Y. C. James Yen
So long as we govern our nation by the letter and spirit of the Bill of Rights, we can be sure that our nation will grow in strength and wisdom and freedom.
~ Dwight D. Eisenhower
We can take full comfort in realizing the continuing strength of our nation. Americas lands remain radiantly rich with diversity, and freedom still reigns.
~ Ben Nelson
We need to have strong allies. Our association and connection with our allies is essential to America's strength. We're the great nation that has allies, 42 allies and friends around the world.
~ Mitt Romney
Strength, strength alone, is honorable, the German nation clamors in its majesty. But since it is hard to muster strength so suddenly, they have to make do with boorishness.
~ Franz Grillparzer
This is an election of hope. It is bringing a new trust. These elections will give new strength to the nation.
~ Narendra Modi
America is stronger than any state probably since the Roman Empire. But we can't do what used to be done with that kind of strength.
~ Brent Scowcroft
The reduction of nuclear arsenals and the removal of the threat of worldwide nuclear destruction is a measure, in my judgment, ofthe power and strength of a great nation.
~ Jimmy Carter
Your success as a family... our success as a nation... depends not on what happens inside the White House, but on what happens inside your house.
~ Barbara Bush
The framers of the Constitution were so clear in the federalist papers and elsewhere that they felt an independent judiciary was critical to the success of the nation.
~ Sandra Day O'Connor
For one true measure of a nation is its success in fulfilling the promise of a better life for each of its members. Let this be the measure of our nation.
~ John F. Kennedy
I ask that all Americans demonstrate in their personal and public lives... the high ethical standards that are essential to good character and to the continued success of our Nation.
~ William J. Clinton
But no nation can base its survival and development on luck and prayers alone while its leadership fritters away every available opportunity for success and concrete achievement.
~ Ibrahim Babangida
Our nation's security, economy, and place on the world stage depends on the success our educational system.
~ Ed Markey
King Louis Philippe once said to me that he attributed the great success of the British nation in political life to their talking politics after dinner.
~ Benjamin Disraeli
Childhood obesity issue is critically important to me because it's critically important to the health and success of our kids, and of this nation, ultimately.
~ Michelle Obama