Nation Quotes

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Same sex marriage is a disgrace to the nation and to God. When I was growing up, ‘ungqingili’ [homosexuals in isiZulu] could not stand in… — Jacob Zuma
I think most Coloradans would agree that our state is the most beautiful in the nation, and the water flowing through our borders is its… — Wayne Allard
We are not only a Latin American nation, we are an Afro-American nation also. — Fidel Castro
I remain attached to my nation. — Lionel Jospin
The Dreyfus Affair is an exceptional case. It's true that here and there you can find some dregs of anti-Semitism, but the situation is the… — Jean-Marie Le Pen
Our nation has kept faith with its veterans. Funding for veterans healthcare and benefits is strong, and has increased more than 75 percent in the… — Steve Buyer
It would indeed be ironic if, in the name of national defence, we would sanction the subversion of one of those liberties which make the… — Earl Warren
As the prosperity of the nation and the height of wage rates depend on a continual increase in the capital invested in its plants, mines… — Ludwig von Mises
We ought to change the legend on our money from "In God We Trust" to "In Money We Trust." Because, as a nation, we've got… — Art Hoppe
We are the most powerful nation on earth. No external power, no terrorist organization can defeat us. But we can defeat ourselves by getting caught… — George Soros
People still retain the errors of their childhood, their nation, and their age, long after they have accepted the truths needed to refute them. — Nicolas de Caritat, marquis de Condorcet
The only fruitful promise of which the life of any individual or any nation can be possessed, is a promise determined by an ideal. — Herbert Croly
Local assemblies of the people constitute the strength of free nations. Municipal institutions are to liberty what primary schools are to science: they bring it… — Alexis de Tocqueville
What makes a nation great is not primarily its great men, but the stature of its innumerable mediocre ones. — Jose Ortega y Gasset
The greatest asset of any nation is the spirit of its people, and the greatest danger that can menace any nation is the breakdown of… — George B. Cortelyou
An individual is as superb as a nation when he has the qualities which make a superb nation. — Walt Whitman
For every nation that lives peaceably, there will be many others to grow hard and push their arrogance to extremes; the gods attend to these… — Sophocles
Caution and conservatism are expected of old age; but when the young men of a nation are possessed of such a spirit, when they are… — Henry Ward Beecher
Every nation thinks its own madness normal and requisite; more passion and more fancy it calls folly, less it calls imbecility. — George Santayana
A nation must be embraced, rehabilitated and expressed as a tangible sign of human creativity and as an integral element of mankinds heritage. — Abdelaziz Bouteflika
Independence, the freedom of a self-governing nation, is in my estimation the highest political good, for which any disadvantage, if need be, and any sacrifice… — Enoch Powell
We must be mad, literally mad, as a nation to be permitting the annual inflow of some 50,000 dependents, who are for the most part… — Enoch Powell
A poet is the creator of the nation around him, he gives them a world to see and has their souls in his hand to… — Johann Gottfried Herder
In this most powerful nation in the world, lack of access to health care should not force local and state governments, companies and workers into… — John Conyers
The more energy-efficient we become as a nation, the less we need to develop additional energy sources. — Lamar S. Smith

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