Nation Quotes
When the British-Malaysian photographer Ian Teh first worked in China, more than a decade ago, he rendered it as a nation of people in Technicolor.
Evan Osnos
I want to make sure that we, as a nation, stay unified because that's how we're going to achieve our missions.
Barack Obama
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
The fate of a Nation may sometimes depend upon the position of a fortress.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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
People have prejudices against a nation in which they have no acquaintances.
Philip Gilbert Hamerton
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.
Clara Barton
I am a citizen of the most beautiful nation on earth, a nation whose laws are harsh yet simple, a nation that never cheats, which is immense and without borders, where life is lived in the present. In this limitless nation, this nation of wind, light, and peace, there is no other ruler besides the sea.
Bernard Moitessier
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
What makes a nation in the beginning is a good piece of geography.
Robert Frost
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.
P. J. O'Rourke
The hope of a nation depends on a president that will follow through even in the most unfavorable of political climates.
Nicholas Gonzalez
I want to say thank you to the great state of Indiana and all the fans.... Pacers Nation, Blue and Gold, thank you guys so much.
Reggie Miller
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
Out of respect for the office of the presidency and for a desire to hear about the state of our nation.
Dennis Hastert
A nation will prosper to the degree that it honors it's teachers.
Plato
Israel is the only nation in the West that is existentially threatened.
Ari Shavit
When a population becomes distracted by trivia, when cultural life is redefined as a perpetual round of entertainments, when serious public conversation becomes a form of baby-talk, when, in short, a people become an audience, and their public business a vaudeville act, then a nation finds itself at risk; culture-death is a clear possibility.
Neil Postman
According to the Yankees owning one person makes you a scoundrel, but owning a nation makes you a colonial benefactor.
Nelson Antonio Denis
Always did his best to defend this nation against terrorists and those states that support them.
Dennis Hastert
We don't bother much about dress and manners in England, because as a nation we don't dress well and we've no manners.
George Bernard Shaw
We are here a nation, composed of the most heterogeneous elements-Protestants and Catholics, English, French, German, Irish, Scotch, every one, let it be remembered, with his traditions, with his prejudices. In each of these conflicting antagonistic elements, however, there is a common spot of patriotism, and the only true policy is that which reaches that common patriotism and makes it vibrate in all toward common ends and common aspirations.
Wilfrid Laurier
