Quotes About Nation

Art is a nation's most precious heritage. For it is in our works of art that we reveal to ourselves and to others the inner version which guides us as a nation. And where there is no vision, the people perish.

Segundo Monteiro Lobato, "um país se faz com homens e livros". Podemos extrapolar e dizer que os sonhos de uma nação se tecem em sua literatura. A cada nova leitura dessas obras, os sentidos ali registrados se renovam, iluminando o passado, contrastando-se com o presente e enriquecendo as aspirações para o futuro. Assim, mais que a história, a literatura é o testemunho palpitante de um povo.

A nação não sabe ler. Há só 30% dos indivíduos residentes neste país que podem ler; desses uns 9% não leem letra de mão. 70% jazem em profunda ignorância

I wonder," wrote Eleanor Roosevelt, "whether we have decided to hide behind neutrality? It is safe, perhaps, but I am not always sure it is right to be safe. . . . Every time a nation which has known freedom loses it, other free nations lose something, too.

Without territory a legal person cannot be a state.

Leaders cannot build a successful nation once they are yoked to these two evils, ignorance and greed.

The future success of a nation depends on how diligently and purposefully they educate their children.

Leaders cannot build a successful nation once they are yoked to these two evils, ignarance and greed.

Education is the key to progress and success for human beings and for a nation.

The Christian community has a golden opportunity to train an army of dedicated teachers who can invade the public school classrooms and use them to influence the nation for Christ.

Teachers are our greatest public servants; they spend their lives educating our young people and shaping our Nation for tomorrow.

A nation will prosper to the degree that it honors it's teachers.

Teachers are directed to instruct their pupils... and to awaken in them a sense of their responsibility toward the community of the nation.

To harness the power of television for the education of our nation's children, everyone must get involved - television programmers, government leaders, teachers, and above all, parents.

India is a youthful nation. Can't we think of exporting good teachers?

after two thousand years we've established a state so as to have someone to steal from.

Today, no group in America feels comfortably dominant. Every group feels attacked, pitted against other groups not just for jobs and spoils but for the right to define the nation's identity. In these conditions, democracy devolves into zero-sum group competition - pure political tribalism.

If the decline of art is obvious which it is and if art is the soul of the nation, then our nation, our country, is suffering from a grave psychic disease.

America, how's your marriage? Your two-hundred-fifty-year-old promise to stay together in sickness and in health? First thirteen states, then more and more, until fifty of you had taken the vow. Like

Democrats see our voluntary military supported by taxpayer dollars as their personal Salvation Army. Self-interested behavior, such as deploying troops to serve the nation, is considered boorish in Manhattan salons.

Mohawk Indians are part of the large Iroquois nation. And the Iroquois Indians lived in longhouses, not teepees.

The truth is, as Dershowitz points out, that "no other nation in history faced with comparable challenges has ever adhered to a higher standard of human rights, been more sensitive to the safety of innocent civilians, tried harder to operate under the rule of law, or been willing to take more risks for peace.

The nation which indulges towards another a habitual hatred or a habitual fondness is in some degree a slave," he wrote. "It is a slave to its animosity or to its affection, either of which is sufficient to lead it astray from its duty and its interest.

No nation gains the power of judgment except it can pass judgment on itself. But to attain this great privilege takes a very long time.