Nation Quotes
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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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Definitely, decisively, the Nation, for us...and even for them.
Antonio de Oliveira Salazar
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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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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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I think in America we have some really serious issues we're going to confront as a nation.
Eddie Glaude
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To have good soldiers, a nation must always be at war.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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The Fall is where the nation is. The Fall is the locus of America.
William Stringfellow
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Work as if you live in the early days of a better nation.
Alasdair Gray
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No more good must be attempted than the nation can bear.
Solon
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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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A semi-starved nation can have neither religion nor art nor organization.
Mahatma Gandhi
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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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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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Vulgarity in a king flatters the majority of the nation.
George Bernard Shaw
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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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Let's light this fire one more time, Mike, and witness this great nation at its best.
Christopher Ferguson
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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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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 nation has ever prospered or been blessed like the colored people in the South.
Bob Jones, Sr.
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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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We're a violent nation, and we need to confront it. This gun plague has to stop.
Marian Wright Edelman
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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 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
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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.
Ezra Taft Benson