Nation Quotes
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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.
W. G. Sebald
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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.
K. R. Narayanan
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A surgeon will cut off a limb in order to protect the body from disease. And a commander-in-chief should pull out of a war that cannot be won in order to protect a nation.
Michael Huffington
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Armenia was always a minority nation. The Armenians were annihilated by the Russians and then by the Turks.
Ernst Kaltenbrunner
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We must secure our borders and restore the rule of law, and more than anyone running, Ted Cruz has fought to make this nation secure while protecting our constitutional rights.
Sam Graves
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I feel my heart break to see a nation ripped apart by it's own greatest strength - it's diversity.
Melissa Etheridge
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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.
Confucius
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At a time when the Nation was at its lowest point, this generation dropped their individual pursuits to form the most potent military and powerful civilian engine the world has ever known. American, fighting and working together, as well as with our allies around the world, overcame the tremendous dangers of that time. We freed the world from the shackle of totalitarianism and made freedom ring.
Lane Evans
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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.
Dennis Hastert
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We must be an inclusive nation that respects and supports all of its citizens: a nation that doesn't give up on anyone who hasn't given up on themselves.
Tammy Duckworth
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Nuclear energy is the scientific achievement of the Iranian nation.
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
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Might the peasant expect the Almighty to stay the thunder storm, which clears the air of a nation from pestilence, lest the lightning bold should in its flash kill his cow?
Benjamin Butler
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They really capitalize on the fact that we are the first (in the nation primary). It is ridiculous.
J. M. Roberts
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That nation is great which rests its head upon death as its pillow.
Mahatma Gandhi
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Anybody who recognizes Israel will burn in the fire of the Islamic nation's fury.
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
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A little righteous anger really brings out the best in the American personality. Our nation was born when 56 patriots got mad enough to sign the Declaration of Independence. We put a man on the moon because Sputnik made us mad at being number two in space. Getting mad in a constructive way is good for the soul- and the country.
Lee Iacocca
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He had a vision of a nation. The incredible martial skills of the Mongol tribes had always been wasted against each other. From nothing, surrounded by enemies, Temujin rose to unite them all. What came next would shake the world.
Conn Iggulden
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These men of Law and their confederates ... the caterpillars of this Kingdom, who with their uncontrolled exactions and extortions, eat up the free-born people of this Nation.
Bathsua Makin
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The size of the lie is a definite factor in causing it to be believed, for the vast masses of the nation are in the depths of their hearts more easily deceived than they are consciously and intentionally bad. The primitive simplicity of their minds renders them a more easy prey to a big lie than a small one, for they themselves often tell little lies but would be ashamed to tell a big one.
Adolf Hitler
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A nation may be said to consist of its territory, its people, and its laws. The territory is the only part which is of certain durability.
Abraham Lincoln
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No country can become a nation by producing a race of imitators.
Mahatma Gandhi
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The resolve of our great nation is being tested. But make no mistake, we will show the world that we will pass the test.
George W. Bush
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People have prejudices against a nation in which they have no acquaintances.
Philip Gilbert Hamerton
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And these things are pretty much foundational: thou shall not kill, steal, bear false witness. All these things are embedded into the laws we enjoy in our nation.
Pat Robertson