National character cannot be built by law. It is the sum of the moral fiber of its individuals. — Herbert Hoover Copy Share Image
Intolerance of dissent is a well-noted feature of the American national character. — J. William Fulbright Copy Share Image
A national festival is an occasion to refine and rebuild the national character. — Narendra Modi Copy Share Image
Economic power is not the same as strength of national character. Our country may be rich in goods, but we are poor… — Richard M. Nixon Copy Share Image
“In the days ahead we must not consider it unpatriotic to raise certain basic questions about our national character.” — Martin Luther King Jr Copy Share Image
“Was there really something to the obsolete idea of a national character? Some countries just changed tyrants, without changing anything else.” — L.E. Modesitt Jr Copy Share Image
The love for our native land strengthens our individual and national character. — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
Our cultural diversity has most certainly shaped our national character. — Julie Bishop Copy Share Image
The German national character is a favorite subject of character experts, probably because the less mature a nation, the more she is… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
As one digs deeper into the national character of the Americans, one sees that they have sought the value of everything in… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
Patriotism depends as much on mutual suffering as on mutual success; and it is by that experience of all fortunes and all… — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
From slavery to segregation, we remember that America did not always live up to its ideals. In fact, we often fell far… — Bill Frist Copy Share Image
I have always believed that national character... depends more on the female part of society than is generally imagined. Precepts from the… — John Marshall Copy Share Image
Our citizenship in the United States is our national character. Our citizenship in any particular state is only our local distinction. By… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
The true key to the declension of the Roman empire which is not to be found in all Gibbon 's immense work… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
“A good opinion of ourselves is exceedingly necessary in private life, but absolutely necessary in public life, and of the utmost importance… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
“What constitutes the character of a nation is the character of many individual human beings; every national character is in essence, simply… — Vasily Grossman Copy Share Image
“Perhaps, like most of us in a foreign country, he was incapable of placing people, selecting a frame for their picture, as… — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
“As one digs deeper into the national character of the Americans, one sees that they have sought the value of everything in… — Morris Berman Copy Share Image
The crime of ingratitude has not yet stained, and I trust never will stain, our national character. You are considered by them… — James Monroe Copy Share Image
As the places where Americans dwell become evermore depressing and impossible, Disneyworld is where they escape to worship the nation in the… — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share Image
Whatever strengthens our local attachments is favorable both to individual and national character, our home, our birthplace, our native land. Think for… — Robert Southey Copy Share Image
A character standard is far more important than even a gold standard. The success of all economic systems is still dependent upon… — Roger Babson Copy Share Image
No government can be strong and flourishing while the national character is weak and degraded. A government must flourish and decay with… — Benjamin Robbins Curtis Copy Share Image
“When the culture of the East, its chief characteristic, is added to the strength of body and the strength of mind of… — Charles Edwin Winter Copy Share Image
“Ours is the only civilization in history which has enshrined mediocrity as its national ideal. Others have been corrupt, but leave it… — Walker Percy Copy Share Image
Nothing short of self-respect and that justice which is essential to a national character ought to involve us in war. — George Washington Copy Share Image
Of course, no religious test for the presidency - every faith adds to our national character. — Benjamin Carson Copy Share Image
In the last analysis, our national future depends upon our national character that is, whether it is spiritually or materially minded. — Roger Babson Copy Share Image
I don't really like discussions about a supposed Russian national character. — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
Nothing short of self-respect and that justice which is essential to a national character ought to involve us in war; for sure… — George Washington Copy Share Image
When I look back at my childhood on the Ayrshire coast, I recall a basic devotion to the idea that human nature… — Andrew O'Hagan Copy Share Image
But our trip was different. It was a classic affirmation of everything right and true and decent in the national character. It… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
National character is only another name for the particular form which the littleness, perversity and baseness of mankind take in every country.… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
“I no longer thought of myself in the terms that D. H. Lawrence used to observe on our national character: “The essential… — Piper Kerman Copy Share Image
Queen Victoria did not regard art, letters, or music as in any way springing from national character: they were something quite apart,… — E. F. Benson Copy Share Image
As the leader of the most powerful nation in the world, our president is more than a list of policies. They set… — Max Joseph Copy Share Image
Those concerns of a national character-such as air and water pollution that do not respect state boundaries, or the national transportation system,… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
We are either a United people, or we are not. If the former, let us, in all maters of general concern act… — George Washington Copy Share Image
Forms of government are forged mainly in the fire of practice, not in the vacuum of theory. They respond to national character… — George F. Kennan Copy Share Image
