Nation Quotes

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That government is best which governs the least, so taught the courageous founders of this nation. This simple declaration is diametrically opposed to the all… — Ezra Taft Benson
When I was growing up in Iraq, there was an unbroken belief in progress and a great sense of optimism. It was a moment of… — Zaha Hadid
The Destiny of every Nation is bound to the Destiny of all Others. — Carlo Azeglio Ciampi
We understand it still that there is no easy road to freedom. We know it well that none of us acting alone can achieve success.… — Nelson Mandela
We have triumphed in the effort to implant hope in the breasts of the millions of our people. We enter into a covenant that we… — Nelson Mandela
I cannot but say a word and look my disapproval when I hear that my country is spending millions for war and war engines-more, I… — Helen Keller
And I'm asking for your support because I want to defend America, as I've said before, from becoming a socialist nation — Christine O'Donnell
Security is still the most important issue facing Washington state residents and millions of Americans - the security of having a job, of access to… — Patty Murray
Among the basic freedoms to which men aspire that their lives might be full and uncramped, freedom from fear stands out as both a means… — Aung San Suu Kyi
The greatest gift for an individual or a nation... was abhaya, fearlessness, not merely bodily courage but absence of fear from the mind. — Aung San Suu Kyi
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This resemblance became clear in the Bush the father's visits to the region. He wound up being impressed by the royal and military regimes and… — Osama bin Laden
During the last 100 years our people have been in a process of building up the country and the nation, of expansion, of getting additional… — Moshe Dayan
Our government has become too responsive to trivial or ephemeral concerns, often at the expense of more important concerns or an erosion of our liberty,… — William A. Niskanen
Laws are always unstable unless they are founded on the manners of a nation; and manners are the only durable and resisting power in a… — Alexis de Tocqueville
That our popular art forms have become so obsessed with sex has turned the U.S.A into a nation of hobbledehoys; as if grown people don't… — Anita Loos
If you ask me to name the proudest distinction of Americans, I would choose . . . the fact that they were the people who… — Ayn Rand
It is not enough to limit your love to your own nation, to your own group. You must respond with love even to those outside… — Clarence Jordan
In the land of Israel was born the Jewish nation. There came an order to kill the religious and social spirit of the people. .… — David Ben-Gurion
You can't know who you are, as a nation or a people, unless you know where you've been. — Eric Sevareid
I have tried my best to give the nation everything I had in me. There are probably a million people who could have done the… — Harry S. Truman
If America is to be run by the people, it is the people who must think. And we do not need to put on sackcloth… — Herbert Hoover
The experience of the ages that are past, the hopes of the ages that are yet to come, unite their voices in an appeal to… — Horace Mann
We do not see faith, hope, and charity as unattainable ideals, but we use them as stout supports of a nation fighting the fight for… — Franklin D. Roosevelt
While we remain a nation decisively shaped by religious faith, our politics and our culture are, in the main, less influenced by movements and arguments… — Jon Meacham

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