Nation Quotes

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The Founding Fathers believed that faith in God was the key to our being a good people and America's becoming a great nation. — Ronald Reagan
Our National Motto - 'In God We Trust' - was not chosen lightly. It reflects a basic recognition that there is a divine authority in… — Ronald Reagan
As on the one hand, the necessity for borrowing in particular emergencies cannot be doubted, so on the other, it is equally evident that to… — Alexander Hamilton
But with respect to future debt; would it not be wise and just for that nation to declare in the constitution they are forming that… — Thomas Jefferson
It is of the greatest consequence that the debt should . . . be remoulded into such a shape as will bring the expenditure of… — Alexander Hamilton
It should be our endeavor to cultivate the peace and friendship of every nation . . . . Our interest will be to throw open… — Thomas Jefferson
We have the self-evident right to regulate our trade according to our own will and our own interest . . . . This right can… — James Madison
To cherish and stimulate the activity of the human mind, by multiplying the objects of enterprise, is not among the least considerable of the expedients,… — Alexander Hamilton
Constructive trade, the two-way exchange of goods and services, is the most efficient and logical way for each nation . . . to build a… — Ronald Reagan
Can it be, that Providence has not connected the permanent felicity of a Nation with its virtue? The experiment, at least, is recommended by every… — George Washington
There exists in the economy and course of nature, an indissoluble union between virtue and happiness; between duty and advantage; between the genuine maxims of… — George Washington
It is . . . [the citizens] choice, and depends upon their conduct, whether they will be respectable and prosperous, or contemptable and miserable as… — George Washington
[I]n framing a Government for a nation we ought, in those provisions which are designed to be permanent, to calculate not on temporary, but on… — Alexander Hamilton
We are a nation that has a government - not the other way around. And this makes us special among the nations of the earth.… — Ronald Reagan
Taxes should be continued by annual or biennial reeactments, because a constant hold, by the nation, of the strings of the public purse is a… — Thomas Jefferson
As to Taxes, they are evidently inseparable from Government. It is impossible without them to pay the debts of the nation, to protect it from… — Alexander Hamilton
We are firmly convinced, and we act on that conviction, that with nations as with individuals our interests soundly calculated will ever be found inseparable… — Thomas Jefferson
Honesty will be found on every experiment, to be the best and only true policy; let us then as a Nation be just. — George Washington
'Tis folly in one Nation to look for disinterested favors from another; that it must pay with a portion of its Independence for whatever it… — George Washington
We wish the happiness and prosperity of every nation. — Thomas Jefferson
My anxious recollections, my sympathetic feeling, and my best wishes are irresistibly excited whensoever, in any country, I see an oppressed nation unfurl the banners… — George Washington
The nation which indulges towards another an habitual hatred, or an habitual fondness, is in some degree a slave. It is a slave to its… — George Washington
The rights of neutrality will only be respected when they are defended by an adequate power. A nation, despicable by its weakness, forfeits even the… — Alexander Hamilton
Sympathy for the favorite nation, facilitating the illusion of an imaginary common interest in cases where no real common interest exists, and infusing into one… — George Washington
A nation has a right to manage its own concerns as it thinks fit. — Alexander Hamilton

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