Nation Quotes
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A wise nation preserves its records, gathers up its muniments, decorates the tombes of its illustrious dead, repairs its greatest structures and fosters national pride and love of country, by perpetual references to the sacrifices and glories of the past.
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My nationalism, fierce though it is, is not exclusive, is not devised to harm any nation or individual.
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Serbia has become a pariah nation, untouchable like a leper.
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The Jews detests the spirit of the nation in the midst of which they live.
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Our nation was founded with a bunch of founding legislators who joined together to move our country out of the blocks and get us started, and every generation since then has found a way to advance the ball down the field.
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The woman is the fiber of the nation. She is the producer of life. A nation is only as good as its women.
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This gives us no pleasure, ... Canada is not a nation that rushes to embrace the use of force. We do not lightly endorse military action. For us it is always the last resort.
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A statesman is a politician who places himself at the service of the nation. A politician is a statesman who places the nation at his service.
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Like the Governor-General, when asked what you enjoy most about the job my tendency is to say "today", because of the insights you get into our nation and because of the privileged contact you have with so many people.
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Let's take the nine states that have no income tax and compare them with the nine states with the highest income tax rates in the nation. If you look at the economic metrics over the last decade for both groups, the zero-income-tax-rate states outperform the highest-income-tax-rate states by a fairly sizable amount.
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No nation can last which has made a mob of itself, however generous at heart.
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For there is hardly a state or nation in existence which has not once had the misfortune, even if it was in the right a thousand times over, to be defeated by a stronger opponent or a stronger coalition.
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India's coming into her own will mean every nation doing likewise.
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The nation cannot be kept on the nonviolent path by violence.
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But if not Kelso, then something else, because a free people must own the nation they live in.
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Every nation has a palladium of its own embodying past and future history. Ever since my boyhood I felt and saw in the architectural lines of St. Vitus Cathedral built so close to the castle, a powerful interpretation of our national symbol.
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Our nation is strengthened, not weakened, by those whistle-blowers who are courageous enough to speak out on violations of the law.
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I would like Americans to make things with their hands. Thomas Jefferson and I feel that makes for a much stronger nation.
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The broad mass of a nation will more easily fall victim to a big lie than a small one. The greater the lie, the greater chance that it will be believed. All epoch-making events have been produced not by the written, but the spoken word.
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We are a nation of shop keepers.
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Prosperous farmers make for a prosperous nation, and when farmers are in trouble, the nation is in trouble.
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I know of no mission more worthwhile than serving the men and women who have so honorably served their nation.
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More clearly than almost any other statesman he beheld the grandeur of the nation loom up, vast and shadowy, through the coming years.
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We are a small nation. Our military strength in proportion to the mighty armaments of modern nations can never be considerable. Our strength as a nation will depend upon our economic freedom, and upon our moral and intellectual force. In these we can become a shining light in the world.
