Nation Quotes
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If we do an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth, we will be a blind and toothless nation.
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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.
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Israel is the only nation in the West that is existentially threatened.
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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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A nation for a continent, and a continent for a nation.
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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.
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Always did his best to defend this nation against terrorists and those states that support them.
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Righteousness exalteth a nation.
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Like a great fool, I went ashore with them, and they gave me some cursed stuff they called gin, - such blasphemy I never heard! At first when they told me they had set up a great distillery of gin, I thought them very useful, clever, good men; for you know, captain, any nation might be converted by hollands; -but this was the unchristianest beastliest liquor I ever tasted, and it made me - as I feel now. Yet the foolish, idiot-people of the island think it very good, because it makes them mad-drunk, and they believe Heaven sent it; but it made me believe the devil had got amongst them.
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Grief is a nation of everyone, a country without borders. I roam the avenues of it out of habit.
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Breaking the United States up into a number of pieces could be very good for the integration of those new nations with the rest of the world and the international law whose primary enemy is now the United States government. I think that it would be very good for democracy, for people to be within some hundreds of miles of their nation's capital, as they are in many other countries, so that they didn't have to travel thousands of miles to protest, to exercise their First Amendment rights, but that is the current state of affairs in this overly large, imperial nation.
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You can't kill America. We're more than a nation. We're a notion. We're an idea. The American Dream. You never heard of the Afghanistani Dream have you. Except by bearded hermetic recluses with a fetish for uneducated women dressed as giant shuttlecocks.
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Nothing renders a nation so despicable as religious despotism.
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It will take some time before a fully-fledged government, equivalent to that of a normal nation state, can be established ... The signs are, however, more hopeful than they were.
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Blowback is simply another way of saying that a nation reaps what it sows.
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Let us trust that all Mexicans, taught by the prolonged and painful experience of the calamities of war, will cooperate in the future for the wellbeing and the prosperity of the nation, which can only be obtained through an undoubted respect for the law and an obedience to the authorities elected by the people.
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I care not who makes th' laws iv a nation, if I can get out an injunction.
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The State dominates the Nation because it alone represents it.
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Discontent is the first step in the progress of a man or a nation.
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A permanent peace cannot be prepared by threats but only by the honest attempt to create a mutual trust. However strong national armaments may be, they do not create military security for any nation nor do they guarantee the maintenance of peace.
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Prosperous farmers make for a prosperous nation, and when farmers are in trouble, the nation is in trouble.
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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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Turkey has put up a fight against the powerful nations of the world. The crusader mentality attacked us abroad. Inside, their lackeys attacked us. We didn't succumb. As a nation, we stood strong.
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A nation may be in a tumult to-day for a thought which the timid Erasmus placidly penned in his study more than two centuries ago.
