Nation Quotes

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Cricket civilizes people and creates good gentlemen. I want everyone to play cricket in Zimbabwe; I want ours to be a nation of gentlemen. — Robert Mugabe
I am not a Tory moderniser for I believe marriage can only be between a man and a woman. I shall not surrender my principles.… — Unknown Author
We remain the most prosperous, powerful nation on Earth. Our workers are no less productive than when this crisis began. Our minds are no less… — Barack Obama
There are truths which can kill a nation. — Jean Giraudoux
We are bound by ideals that teach us what it means to be citizens. Every child must be taught these ideals. Every citizen must uphold… — George W. Bush
The effect of a representative democracy is to refine and enlarge the public views, by passing them through the medium of a chosen body of… — James Madison
If there have been those who doubted whether a confederated representative democracy were a government competent to the wise and orderly management of the common… — John Quincy Adams
The very essence of democracy is that every person represents all the varied interests which compose the nation. — Mahatma Gandhi
There is no greater sign of a general decay of virtue in a nation, than a want of zeal in its inhabitants for the good… — Joseph Addison
The size of the lie is a definite factor in causing it to be believed, for the vast masses of the nation are in the… — Adolf Hitler
In the days when the nation depended on agriculture for its wealth it made the Lord Chancellor sit on a woolsack to remind him where… — Prince Philip
If ever again our nation stumbles upon unfunded paper, it shall surely be like death to our body politic. This country will crash. — George Washington
To have security against atomic bombs and against the other biological weapons, we have to prevent war, for if we cannot prevent war every nation… — Albert Einstein
The unpopularity of economics is the result of its analysis of the effects of privileges. It is impossible to invalidate the economists demonstration that all… — Ludwig von Mises
Government should be good for the liberty of the governed, and that is when it governs to the least possible degree. It should be good… — Augustin Thierry
Our nation has both an obligation and self-interest in facing head-on the serious environmental, economic and national security threat posed by global warming. — John McCain
We must retool our nation to prepare for the challenge we already face to maintain our position in the global economy. And this much is… — John F. Kerry
Our nation is well equipped to make the transition. We have an abundance of natural resources like wind, natural gas, solar and geothermal. — Julia Gillard
The idea that each individual has intrinsic, God-given value and is of infinite worth quite apart from any social contribution - an idea most pagans… — Elaine Pagels
The will of the nation is one of those phrases most widely abused by schemers and tyrants of all ages. — Alexis de Tocqueville
No matter how hard we try words simply cannot express the horror, the shock, and the revulsion we all feel over what took place in… — Billy Graham
Today I challenge our nation to commit to producing 100 percent of our electricity from renewable energy and truly clean carbon-free sources within 10 years. — Al Gore
Given the nature and magnitude of the challenge, national action alone is insufficient. No nation can address this challenge on its own. No region can… — Ban Ki-moon
No one is an unjust villain in his own mind. Even - perhaps even especially those who are the worst of us. Some of the… — Jim Butcher
These issues that exist among people that we are Iranian and what we need to do for Iran are not correct; these issues are not… — Ruhollah Khomeini

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