Quotes About Nation

The statement that I made and that I think I will continue to make is that racism and bigotry isn't just relegated to the Southern region; it permeates the history of our nation. It's not to say that we haven't made progress. Obviously we have with our first African American president, and I never thought that would happen in my lifetime.

Obviously, if you look at the history of rail in the U.S., it took courageous entrepreneurs to have that vision of connecting the whole nation from east to west.

Throughout the history of America, we have been a nation driven by the idea of the frontier - a place where law was slim and liberty was enormous, where you could make your way in the world based on your own ambition and abilities, not fenced in by the limitations of society.

The people are the most important element in a nation; the spirits of the land and grain are the next; the sovereign is the least.

Access to basic quality health care is one of the most important domestic issues facing our nation.

One of the most important things that a Thatcher government did was change the mood of the nation to give it back its confidence.

How strange it is that murder has the sanction of law in one and only one of the human relationships, and that is the most important of all, that of nation to nation.

America's history is exemplified in the efforts of the men and women who died for our country. The one thing that they all have in common is their selfless love for our nation and their courage to stand up to protect and defend it. They raised their gaze in the face of conflict, believed in what America could be, and pushed forward.

The one thing that our nation is truly responsible for is securing the nation, make sure the citizens are safe.

Pakistan is rich in sporting talent, but the only thing needed is to have sincere and honest administrators who should be held accountable by the government. Pakistan should be recognised as a sporting nation and not as a terrorist country.

It is time for us to focus on the issues that bring us together as a nation. Supporting parents' capacity to raise their children with the love and resources they need is simply the right thing to do.

Identity theft is one of the fastest-growing crimes in the nation - especially in the suburbs.

His gaze lingered on the ruins of the keep. Twenty-two years ago , he had made a promise in the shadow of those walls - a promise to uphold his family's claim to the throne. In the end, he had done so much more than that. In the end, he had upheld his nation's claim to their kingdom.

What we see now is an attempt to destroy the last surviving communities: the family, the church, and the nation. This is one connection between liberalism and communist theory.

if you want to love and serve the church, the community, and the nation, you must first learn to love and serve your family.

When the Nazis invaded Poland, they knew they could subdue the country by superior force of arms. But Hitler's plan for Poland was to destroy the Poles as a people. To do that, the Nazis needed to destroy the two things that gave the Polish their identity: their shared Catholic faith and their sense of themselves as a nation.

A nation's gods, its heroes, its villains, its landmarks, its art, its music, its holidays—all these things are part of its cultural memory.

Las decisiones que tomamos hoy tendrán consecuencias en las vidas de nuestros descendientes, nación y civilización. Jesucristo prometió que el poder del infierno no derrotaría a su Iglesia, pero no dijo que no vencería a la Iglesia en Occidente. Depende de nosotros y de las decisiones que tomemos aquí y ahora.

The safety of our sons and daughters as they go out on the streets this very night is due to the influence of the preachers rather than to the police men and lawmakers. The safety of our nation, including all groups, depends on Christian education.

As Joseph Roth once wrote, "If there is one nation that is justified in seeing the 'national question' as essential to its survival, then surely it is the Jews who are forced to become a 'nation' by the nationalism of others." Zionism

And let's not forget "Dane-Geld": It is always a temptation to a rich and lazy nation, To puff and look important and to say: "Though we know we should defeat you, we have not the time to meet you. We will therefore pay you cash to go away." And that is called paying the Dane-geld; But we've proved it again and again, That if once you have paid him the Dane-geld You never get rid of the Dane.

The war on terrorism has made national security a legitimate concern, and a rising deficit, changes brought on by globalization and even the price of oil have thrown the nation's economic health into question.

When we look below the surface of our individual anxiety, we find that it also comes from something more profound than the threat of war and economic uncertainty. We are anxious because we do not know what roles to pursue, what principles for action to believe in. Our individual anxiety, somewhat like that of the nation, is a basic confusion and bewilderment about where we are going.

there is no political freedom that is not indissolubly bound up to the inner personal freedom of the individuals who make up that nation, no liberty of a nation of conformists, no free nation made up of robots.