Nation Quotes
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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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We are an overfed and undernourished nation digging an early grave with our teeth.
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I have lived in Chile since 1996 and reported from Chile since 1989, so I know the nation better than my native Massachusetts.
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We are a fighting nation, continually struggling to overcome diseases from within... and to face up to foreign intervention from without.
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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.
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Glory to God in the highest, Ohio has saved the Nation.
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Husker nation!! Can you feel it!
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We can never be a nation of snobs so long as we are willing to poke fun at ourselves.
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The English are a nation of consummate cant.
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How heavy must the responsibility weigh on those others who, in torturing an individual, are also abusing the confidence of an entire nation!
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If the British are a nation of shopkeepers, Americans are a nation of shoppers.
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A nation that still believes in itself holds fast to its own god.
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It is done. We are a nation and we will ride. Tonight, let no man think of his tribe and mourn. We are a greater family and all lands are ours to take.
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To a significant degree, we are an overfed and undernourished nation digging an early grave with our teeth, and lacking the energy that could be ours because we overindulge in junk foods.
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One hundred years ago, visionary political leaders from the Progressive Era established a system of national forests and parks in our country that are the envy of the world and today are the treasure of an entire nation. Why not a similar, global vision for our generation?
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A Mr. (save, perhaps, some half dozen in the nation,) always needs a note of explanation.
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We're a nation of laws, but the good thing about America, is that laws reside in the people and people can change the laws.
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The greatness of a Nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated…I hold that the more helpless a creature, the more entitled it is to protection by man from the cruelty of man.’ – Mahatma Gandhi.
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Vulgarity in a king flatters the majority of the nation.
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I hate imperialism. I detest colonialism. And I fear the consequences of their last bitter struggle for life. We are determined that our nation, and the world as a whole, shall not be the plaything of one small corner of the world.
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We trained hard, but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we would be reorganized. Presumably the plans for our employment were being changed. I was to learn later in life that, perhaps because we are so good at organizing, we tend as a nation to meet any new situation by reorganizing; and a wonderful method it can be for creating the illusion of progress while producing confusion, inefficiency and demoralization.
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Americans long to be united. After 9/11, we all just wanted to be one nation. Not a single American on September the 12, 2001, cared who won the next presidential election.
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We, the people of the United States, we are a great Nation with a great vision.
