Nation Quotes
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India's coming into her own will mean every nation doing likewise.
Mahatma Gandhi
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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.
Abraham Lincoln
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“War. There was now no point in a war that might once have been justified as a search for free subsistence and living space – it had degenerated into vast, inhuman mass slaughter, negating all cultural values, and it can never be justified to the German people; it will be utterly condemned by the nation as a whole. All the torturing of Poles under arrest, the shooting of prisoners of war and their bestial treatment – that can never be justified either.”
Wladyslaw Szpilman
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Malaysia didn't end up winning any gold medals at the Rio Olympics, but had set new records and brought the nation closer, so keep going.
Azran Osman Rani
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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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Though race-related issues continue to occupy a significant portion of our political discussion, and though there remain many unresolved racial issues in this nation, we, average Americans, simply do not talk enough with each other about things racial.
Eric Holder
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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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If the German nation wants to end a state of affairs that threatens its extermination in Europe, it must not fall into the error of the pre-War period and make enemies of God and the world; it must recognize the most dangerous enemy and strike at him with all its concentrated power. And if this victory is obtained through sacrifices elsewhere, the coming generations of our people will not condemn us.
Adolf Hitler
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You can't run this nation like a town meeting.
Terry Sanford
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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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I would like Americans to make things with their hands. Thomas Jefferson and I feel that makes for a much stronger nation.
Nicholas Offerman
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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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America has faced much more difficult times, including potential national extinction, without flinching.
Nick Clooney
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Power without a nation's confidence is nothing.
Catherine the Great
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I know of no mission more worthwhile than serving the men and women who have so honorably served their nation.
Anthony Principi
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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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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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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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That's one of the best conferences in the nation, and I'd like to play them just for a comparison.
Bob Thomason
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An individual is as superb as a nation when he has the qualities which make a superb nation.
Walt Whitman
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The future of our nation depends on our ability to produce food and fiber to sustain the world.
Phil Bredesen
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Conscription is the vitality of a nation, the purification of its morality, and the real foundations of all its habits
Napoleon Bonaparte
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I genuinely did not expect more than half our nation to choose to walk away from our long-term allies into the arms of our new friends Vladimir Putin, Marine Le Pen and Donald Trump. Or that they would do so without an economic plan, a trading strategy, or a credible leader, making the average Briton's future more uncertain than any time since the Blitz.
Brian Reade
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Manners are the hypocrisy of a nation.
Honore de Balzac