Nation Quotes

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Now we are all learning what it's like to reap the whirlwind of fossil fuel dependence... Our destructive addiction has given us a catastrophic war… — Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
You have destroyed nature with your industrial waste and gases more than any other nation in history. Despite this, you refuse to sign the Kyoto… — Osama bin Laden
A combination of very rapid population growth over the last 50 years and reckless economic growth during the same time has stored up massive problems… — Jonathon Porritt
Can you think of anything that can get better if we crowd more people into our cities, our towns, into our state our nation or… — Albert Allen Bartlett
I will not cede more power to the state. I will not willingly cede more power to anyone, not to the state, not to General… — William F. Buckley, Jr.
And when you tell me that somebody's skin color or gender is going to determine their prospects in this world, that is turning the clock… — Alan Keyes
The purpose of affirmative action is to give our nation a way to finally address the systemic exclusion of individuals of talent on the basis… — William J. Clinton
I have one great political idea. . . . That idea is an old one. It is widely and generally assented to; nevertheless, it is… — Frederick Douglass
The time has come that Christians must vote for honest men and take consistent ground in politics or the Lord will curse them. . .… — Charles Grandison Finney
Now more than ever the people are responsible for the character of their Congress. If that body be ignorant, reckless, and corrupt, it is because… — James A. Garfield
...We need to assert our allegiance to the human race, and not to any one nation. — Howard Zinn
The Church is larger than any one nation or any one political scene. — Andrew van der Bijl
There is a peculiar pathos in the extinction of a nation. — Unknown Author
We can hardly expect the nation-state to make itself superfluous, at least not overnight. Rather what we must aim for is really nothing more than… — Henry Morgenthau, Jr.
The most tragic paradox of our time is to be found in the failure of nation-states to recognize the imperatives of internationalism. — Earl Warren
Our nation is like a tree of which the original trunk is swarajya and the branches are swadeshi and boycott. — Bal Gangadhar Tilak
Government should stand behind its currency and credit and the bank deposits of the nation. No individual should suffer a loss of money through depreciation… — Abraham Lincoln
The nation doesn't simply need what we have. It needs what we are. — Edith Stein
I don't want a nation of thinkers, I want a nation of workers — John D. Rockefeller
We will win our freedom because the sacred heritage of our nation and the eternal will of God are embodied in our echoing demands. — Martin Luther
Father eternal, ruler of creation, Spirit of life, which moved ere form was made Through the thick darkness covering every nation Light to man's blindness,… — Laurence Housman
Political parties has nothing to do with religious problems, as long as these are not alien to the nation, undermining the morals and ethics of… — Adolf Hitler
For what concerns diversity of rites in the sacred liturgy, the Apostolic See has always made its position clear: not only it does not condemn… — Pope Leo XIII
First in violence, deepest in dirt, lawless, unlovely, ill-smelling, irreverent, new; an overgrown gawk of a - village, the "tough" among cities, a spectacle for… — Lincoln Steffens
Besides the advantage of being armed, which the Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation, the existence of subordinate governments, to which… — James Madison

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