Nation Quotes
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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.
Michael Collins
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The Jews detests the spirit of the nation in the midst of which they live.
Bernard Lazare
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We are a nation of shop keepers.
Apsley Cherry-Garrard
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Vulgarity in a king flatters the majority of the nation.
George Bernard Shaw
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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.
Adolf Hitler
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Certainly raising money is hard, and we wore the uniform of the nation so that others could become millionaires. Now we are returning to service of a different kind.
Eric Massa
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Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure.
Abraham Lincoln
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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.
Jean Chretien
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A great nation cannot abandon its responsibilities. Responsibilities abandoned today return as more acute crises tomorrow.
Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr.
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When the economic well-being of their nation demanded a strong and creative response, my colleagues at the Federal Reserve... mustered the moral courage to do what was necessary.
Ben Bernanke
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At the present moment in world history nearly every nation must choose between alternative ways of life. The choice is too often not a free one.
Harry S Truman
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Every nation criticizes every other one - and they are all correct.
Arthur Schopenhauer
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Let not his mode of raising cash seem strange, Although he fleeced the flags of every nation, For into a prime minister but change His title, and 'tis nothing but taxation.
Lord Byron
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We expected that we would start seeing more significant declines in new cases and deaths around the nation at this point. And we're just not seeing that.
Scott Gottlieb
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We are an overfed and undernourished nation digging an early grave with our teeth.
Ezra Taft Benson
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In every community, there is work to be done. In every nation, there are wounds to heal. In every heart, there is the power to do it.
Marianne Williamson
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This nation under God.
Abraham Lincoln
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It was the mass sale and distribution of novels and newspapers that was critical to the rise of the imagined nation.
George Ritzer
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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.
Alphonse Mucha
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But if not Kelso, then something else, because a free people must own the nation they live in.
Nicholas von Hoffman
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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.
Muhammad Ali
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But as a Scot with a lifelong love of Scotland and the arts, I believe the opportunity of independence is too good to miss. Simply put there is no more creative an act than creating a new nation.
Sean Connery
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If we lose the whole migration, we lose one of the nation's most magnificent phenomenon.
Chip Taylor
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My nationalism, fierce though it is, is not exclusive, is not devised to harm any nation or individual.
Mahatma Gandhi