Nations Quotes

Perfection is a disease of a nation.

— Beyonce Knowles

A nation without heroes is nothing.

— Roberto Clemente

The Empire is a Commonwealth of nations.

— Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery

Americans are a nation of immigrants.

— Tim Kaine

From a single crime know the nation.

— Virgil

Nations, like men, have their infancy.

— Henry Bolingbroke

We are nothing but by the law.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

I am ashamed of my nation.

— Djemal Pasha

America has become a nation of struggling folks who are barely making it every day.

— Karl Rove

True liberty acknowledges and defends the equal rights of all men, and all nations.

— Gerrit Smith

The problem with living in a fast-food nation is that we expect food to be cheap.

— Alice Waters

You cannot have democratic accountability in anything bigger than a nation state.

— Vaclav Klaus

Israel has its own right as a nation to defend its national security.

— Al Gore

No nation ever rises higher than its women.

— Nellie L. McClung

This nation asks for action, and action now.

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

Glory to God in the highest, Ohio has saved the Nation.

— Abraham Lincoln

Every nation is destined, by the law of God and humanity, to form a free and equal community of brothers.

— Giuseppe Mazzini

This nation has never lived without independence. We cannot and shall not live without it. Either independence or death.

— Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

Money powers prey upon the nation in times of peace & conspire against it in times of adversity.

— Abraham Lincoln

Liberty is the luxury of self-discipline, that those nations historically who have failed to discipline themselves have had discipline imposed by others.

— Alistair Cooke

Nothing is good for a nation but that which arises from its own core and its own general wants, without apish imitation…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I joke that one of the rare times Egyptians identify as African is when the national soccer squad is playing in the…

— Mona Eltahawy

I must say that part of our national wealth is not only the nation's people but those people who lead them.

— Peter Cosgrove

[The Library of Congress] is a multimedia encyclopedia. These are the tentacles of a nation.

— Daniel J. Boorstin

Individual liberty is individual power, and as the power of a community is a mass compounded of individual powers, the nation which…

— John Quincy Adams

If, when the chips are down, the worlds most powerful nation, the United States of America, acts like a pitiful, helpless giant,…

— Richard M. Nixon

We cannot expect that everyone, to use the phrase of a decade ago, will talk sense to the American people. But we…

— John F. Kennedy

But ah! what once has been shall be no more! The groaning earth in travail and in pain Brings forth its races,…

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

If a few nations step forward and begin changing the narrative of 'us and them' to 'everyone,' we will see a new…

— Jonathan Granoff

The greater part of our best years has been passed for our generation in these two great worldconvulsions. All will be changed…

— Stefan Zweig

I joined the State Department in the post-9/11 world. I lived and worked on a NATO military base in Afghanistan, surrounded by…

— Andy Kim

Americanism not globalism will be our credo as long as we are led by politicians who will not put America first, then…

— Donald Trump

As a final crash of self-indulgent nonsense, when the incontrovertible truth of your panoramic and murderous deceit has even begun to cost…

— Keith Olbermann

I will insist the Hebrews have [contributed] more to civilize men than any other nation. If I was an atheist and believed…

— John Adams

A Nation of Outsiders is smart, insightful, and politically astute. Grace Hale's analysis of the 'romance of the outsider' is necessary reading…

— Beth Bailey

If history could prove and teach us anything, it would be the private ownership of the means of production as a necessary…

— Ludwig von Mises

Today, Iraq is an immediate danger to our nation. This time, we cannot wait. We cannot wait for Saddam Hussein to take…

— Richard Armitage

I do ask every publisher, every editor, and every newsman in the nation to reexamine his own standards, and to recognize the…

— John F. Kennedy

Children know that if they have a question about the world, the library is the place to find the answer. And someone…

— Laura Bush

The problem was that Panama technically belonged to Colombia, which refused to sign a treaty leasing it to the United States. So…

— Dave Barry