Nation Quotes
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Justice may be blind, but we all know that diversity in the courts, as in all aspects of society, sharpens our vision and makes us a stronger nation.
Bill Clinton -
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
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What makes a nation in the beginning is a good piece of geography.
Robert Frost -
It's our right as a sovereign nation to choose immigrants that we think are the likeliest to thrive and flourish and love us.
Donald Trump -
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.
Lester B. Pearson -
Patriots don't let their nation default.
Gary Ackerman -
The hope of a nation depends on a president that will follow through even in the most unfavorable of political climates.
Nicholas Gonzalez -
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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Federal waste is a grave disservice to hardworking taxpayers across our great nation, and yet our governmental bureaucracies are riddled with it - whether through unnecessary, duplicative, inefficient, outdated, or failed agencies and programs.
Sam Brownback -
Anybody who recognizes Israel will burn in the fire of the Islamic nation's fury.
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad -
A nation needs to know how to utilise talent.
Irrfan Khan -
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.
Alan Abel -
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 -
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.
Abraham Lincoln
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Righteousness exalteth a nation.
Friedrich Nietzsche -
We Irish are too poetical to be poets; we are a nation of brilliant failures, but we are the greatest talkers since the Greeks.
Oscar Wilde -
The fate of a Nation may sometimes depend upon the position of a fortress.
Napoleon Bonaparte -
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 -
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 -
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.
John Calvin
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People have prejudices against a nation in which they have no acquaintances.
Philip Gilbert Hamerton -
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.
Abraham Lincoln -
How I wished during those sleepless hours that I belonged to a different nation, or better still, to none at all.
W. G. Sebald -
The greatest Inventions were produced in Times of Ignorance; as the Use of the Compass, Gunpowder, and Printing; and by the dullest Nation, as the Germans.
Jonathan Swift