Nation Quotes
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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.
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Discontent is the first step in the progress of a man or a nation.
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Conscription is the vitality of a nation, the purification of its morality, and the real foundations of all its habits
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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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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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According to the Yankees owning one person makes you a scoundrel, but owning a nation makes you a colonial benefactor.
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They hover as a cloud of witnesses above this Nation.
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A government is invigorated when each of us is willing to participate in shaping the future of this nation.
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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.
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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.
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You can go to Japan, China, all the European, African, Arab, and South American countries, and man, they know me. I can't name a nation where they don't know me.
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[Religion is a way of reconstructing] what has come to feel like a crumbling moral framework in the life of our nation.
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The single greatest under-utilized resource we have as a nation is women and girls.
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Make money and the whole nation will conspire to call you a gentleman.
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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?
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An individual is as superb as a nation when he has the qualities which make a superb nation.
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The best of our nation is exemplified by our nation's veterans who embody what it means to put service above self. Who have sacrificed their own personal interests out of a greater love for our people and our country.
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In some not too distant tomorrow the radiant stars of love and brotherhood will shine over our great nation with all their scintillating beauty.
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The decline in literature indicates a decline in the nation. The two keep pace in their downward tendency.
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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.
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USA TODAY hopes to serve as a forum for better understanding and unity to help make the USA truly one nation.
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Blowback is simply another way of saying that a nation reaps what it sows.
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We have had in our nation a well-celebrated Declaration of Independence. But our success as a country will depend upon a new 'Declaration of Inter-dependence.' A belief in how much we need each other, how much we share one common destiny.
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The future of our nation depends on our ability to produce food and fiber to sustain the world.
