Nation Quotes
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I don't believe any amount of cost savings can justify leaving an entire quadrant of the nation defenseless, ... This decision ... could result in incalculable harm to our nation's security.
Olympia Snowe
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We spent the election campaign really canvassing where we were as a nation, deciding who had the mandate to change that up going forward. But I think the challenge for us will be, as with any government, your actions demonstrate your legacy.
Jacinda Ardern
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Prosperous farmers make for a prosperous nation, and when farmers are in trouble, the nation is in trouble.
Harry S Truman
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To most people a savage nation is wan that doesn't wear oncomf'rtable clothes.
Finley Peter Dunne
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Blowback is simply another way of saying that a nation reaps what it sows.
Chalmers Johnson
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Manners are the hypocrisy of a nation.
Honore de Balzac
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America has faced much more difficult times, including potential national extinction, without flinching.
Nick Clooney
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Now if you know what makes one person's life change, then you know what makes a nation change - because a nation is simply a large group of individuals.
Marianne Williamson
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If you know what makes one person's life change, then you know what makes a nation change - because a nation is simply a large group of individuals.
Marianne Williamson
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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.
Edwin Percy Whipple
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There is no way we can survive as a nation in the world without finding unity.
Ngugi wa Thiong'o
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If I ever felt inclined to be timid as I was going into a room hill of people, I would say to myself, "You're the cleverest member of one of the cleverest families in the cleverest class of the cleverest nation in the world-why should you be frightened?
Beatrice Webb
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I am proud to announce these appointees who will help our state continue to flourish and be a leader in the nation. I would like to thank these leaders for being willing to serve our state and help us solve many of the big issues important to Tennesseans.
Bill Lee
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The Hindus believe that there is no country but theirs. no nation like theirs, no king like theirs, no religion like theirs, no science like theirs.
Abu Rayhan al-Biruni
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India's coming into her own will mean every nation doing likewise.
Mahatma Gandhi
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The Jews are not a nation!
Joseph Stalin
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A government is invigorated when each of us is willing to participate in shaping the future of this nation.
Barbara Jordan
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...perhaps that is what ultimately unites us as a world: the fact that, no matter how prosperous a nation, how developed, all share the plight and embarrassment of having so many suffering children. We are united by our neglect, our abuse, our absence of love. Have we forgotten about the children, and thus forsaken the next generation?
Audrey Hepburn
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We are not a nation that says, 'Don’t ask, don’t tell.' We are a nation that says, 'Out of many, we are one.' We are a nation that welcomes the service of every patriot. We are a nation that believes that all men and women are created equal. Those are the ideals that generations have fought for. Those are the ideals that we upheld today.
Barack Obama
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May we all, as a nation of believers, fight for the achievement of America; may we make sacrifices worthy of those proud men and women who fought for us, labored for us, bled soil from the beaches of Normandy to the fields of Gettysburg for us.
Cory Booker
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For every nation that lives peaceably, there will be many others to grow hard and push their arrogance to extremes; the gods attend to these things slowly. But they attend to those who put off God and turn to madness.
Sophocles
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We studied a mosque, and this is when we were at Notre Dame, and in this mosque they had people from a variety of countries, most of them immigrants. In some of the countries, when you go into a mosque you remove your shoes. To not do so could be punishable even by death in that nation. In other countries, it would be a great offense to remove their shoes when they come into the mosque, a sign of disrespect.
Michael Emerson
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They hover as a cloud of witnesses above this Nation.
Henry Ward Beecher
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I would like Americans to make things with their hands. Thomas Jefferson and I feel that makes for a much stronger nation.
Nicholas Offerman