Nation Quotes
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America has to act. But, when America acts, other nations accuse us of being 'hegemonistic', of engaging in 'unilateralism', of behaving as if we're the only nation on earth that counts. We are.
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That nation is great which rests its head upon death as its pillow.
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What makes a nation in the beginning is a good piece of geography.
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Though this nation has proudly thought of itself as an ethnic melting pot, in things racial we have always been and I believe continue to be, in too many ways, essentially a nation of cowards.
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To put the world in order, we must first put the nation in order; to put the nation in order, we must first put the family in order; to put the family in order; we must first cultivate our personal life; we must first set our hearts right.
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We're a nation of sheep. If you go out and look up at the sky, people around you will start looking up at the sky.
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The hope of a nation depends on a president that will follow through even in the most unfavorable of political climates.
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I feel my heart break to see a nation ripped apart by it's own greatest strength - it's diversity.
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As we enter our centennial year we are still a young nation, very much in the formative stages. Our national condition is still flexible enough that we can make almost anything we wish of our nation. No other country is in a better position than Canada to go ahead with the evolution of a national purpose devoted to all that is good and noble and excellent in the human spirit.
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A nation is not a budget, no matter how much ideologues want it to be so.
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We Irish are too poetical to be poets; we are a nation of brilliant failures, but we are the greatest talkers since the Greeks.
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This tree will stand and grow and prosper, I hope, as a symbol of how this nation will stand and grow and prosper.
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All that serves labor serves the Nation. All ^ that harms labor is treason to America. No line can be drawn between these two. If any man tells you he loves America, yet hates labor, he is a liar. If any man tells you he trusts America, yet fears labor, he is a fool. There is no America without labor, and to fleece the one is to rob the other.
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Although its growth may seem to have been slow, it is to be remembered that it is not a shrub, or plant, to shoot up in the summerand wither in the frosts. The Red Cross is a part of us--it has come to stay--and like the sturdy oak, its spreading branches shall yet encompass and shelter the relief of the nation.
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How I wished during those sleepless hours that I belonged to a different nation, or better still, to none at all.
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Anybody who recognizes Israel will burn in the fire of the Islamic nation's fury.
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The fate of a Nation may sometimes depend upon the position of a fortress.
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Righteousness exalteth a nation.
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It's our right as a sovereign nation to choose immigrants that we think are the likeliest to thrive and flourish and love us.
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That the nation has found a consensus for its highest office in some one who has sprung from the grass-roots of our society and grown up in the dust and heat of this sacred land is symbolic of the fact that the concerns of the common man have now moved to the centre stage of our social and political life. It is this larger significance of my election rather than any personal sense of honour that makes me rejoice on this occasion.
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But as a heathen tells us, there is no nation so barbarous, no race so brutish as not to be imbued with the conviction that there is a God.
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As a nation we began by declaring that all me are created equal. We now practically read it, all men are created equal except Negroes.
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Comedy, if it's done well, can reflect the mood of a nation. It can be a mirror to who we are, what we believe in, what we are like.
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People have prejudices against a nation in which they have no acquaintances.
