Nation Quotes
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The only way in which a nation can make itself wealthy and prosperous is by good housekeeping: that is, by providing for its wants in the order of their importance, and allowing no money to be wasted on whims and luxuries until necessities have been thoroughly served.
George Bernard Shaw
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If 600,000 people have to die in order for the nation to live, then 600,000 people will die.
Abraham Lincoln
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I am poor and naked, but I am the chief of the nation. We do not want riches but we do want to train our children right. Riches would do us no good. We could not take them with us to the other world. We do not want riches. We want peace and love.
Red Cloud
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Definitely, decisively, the Nation, for us...and even for them.
Antonio de Oliveira Salazar
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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.
Sukarno
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Let's light this fire one more time, Mike, and witness this great nation at its best.
Christopher Ferguson
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I think in America we have some really serious issues we're going to confront as a nation.
Eddie Glaude
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The Fall is where the nation is. The Fall is the locus of America.
William Stringfellow
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To have good soldiers, a nation must always be at war.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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Fifty-one percent of a nation can establish a totalitarian regime, suppress minorities and still remain democratic.
Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn
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The more I think of all that I have seen in the Confederate States, the more I feel inclined to say...'How can you subdue such a nation as this!'
Arthur Fremantle
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Vulgarity in a king flatters the majority of the nation.
George Bernard Shaw
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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.
Sukarno
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No more good must be attempted than the nation can bear.
Solon
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The United States is a rogue state violating international law in many, many ways that California wouldn't have to if it seceded and became a nation.
David Swanson
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I'm completely fascinated with American politics because I think they dictate the politics of every nation of the Western world. So, it's very interesting to follow what's going on over here.
Nikolaj Arcel
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No nation has ever prospered or been blessed like the colored people in the South.
Bob Jones, Sr.
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A semi-starved nation can have neither religion nor art nor organization.
Mahatma Gandhi
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Life is too short to make just one decision, Music's too loud for just one station, Love is too big for just one nation, AND GOD IS TOO BIG FOR JUST ONE RELIGION...
Michael Franti
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If I can send the flower of the German nation into the hell of war without the smallest pity for the shedding of precious German blood, then surely I have the right to remove millions of an inferior race that breeds like vermin.
Adolf Hitler
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Turkey are the independent people. We are our own nation in this world - a nation of writers, journalists, artists, moviemakers, and academics. We act together. If there is a problem, we act to correct it.
Burhan Sonmez
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The essential thing is the formation of the political will of the nation: that is the starting point for political action.
Adolf Hitler
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It made and preserves us a nation.
George Pope Morris
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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.
Daphne Sheldrick