Nation Quotes

4403 Nation quotes by 2232 unique authors

The prosperity and advancement of a nation depend upon its intelligentsia, and Muslim India is looking forward to her young generation and education classes to… — Muhammad Ali Jinnah
I came to office with one deliberate intent: to change Britain from a dependent to a self-reliant society -- from a give-it-to-me, to a do-it-yourself… — Margaret Thatcher
Gentlemen, if we don't cut spending we will be bankrupt. Yes, the medicine is harsh, but the patient requires it in order to live. Should… — Margaret Thatcher
American poetry has been part of a culture in conflict....We are a people tending toward democracy at the level of hope; at another level, the… — Muriel Rukeyser
Our aim is to achieve a socialist system of society, which, by eliminating the division of mankind into classes, by eliminating all exploitation of man… — Vladimir Lenin
We need the real, nation-wide terror which reinvigorates the country and through which the Great French Revolution achieved glory. — Vladimir Lenin
Americas largest trade deficit is with China, a nation that enjoys Permanent Normal Trade Relations with the U.S. and ties its currency to the dollar… — Jo Ann Emerson
Any nation which for an extended period puts pleasure before liberty is likely to lose the liberty it misused. — Aiden Wilson Tozer
We're the most captive nation of slaves that ever came along. The moral timidity of the average American is quite noticeable. Everybody's afraid to be… — Gore Vidal
But when we place God on our side of things, that we are now ridding the world of evil - that's very dangerous, that one… — Jim Wallis
In the 2004 presidential election, we saw a wonderful example of citizens making contributions. In fact, individual giving to both the Kerry and Bush campaigns… — Mark Shields
The State is not the nation, and the State can be modified and even abolished in its present form, without harming the nation. On the… — Randolph Bourne
As lawmakers, we must assure the people of America that our nation will not experience the nightmare of the 2000 presidential election. — Eddie Bernice Johnson
The more profoundly we study this wonderful Book, and the more closely we observe its divine precepts, the better citizens we will become and the… — William McKinley
I have already transmitted to Congress the report of the naval court of inquiry on the destruction of the battleship Maine in the harbor of… — William McKinley
I mistake the American people if they favor the odious doctrine that there is no such thing as international morality; that there is one law… — Grover Cleveland
In America the taint of sectarianism lies broad upon the land. Not content with acknowledging the supremacy as the Diety, and with erecting temples in… — James F. Cooper
It is my hypothesis that the fundamental source of conflict in this new [post-Cold-War] world will not be primarily ideological or primarily economic. The great… — Samuel P. Huntington
My brother need not be idealized, or enlarged in death beyond what he was in life; to be remembered simply as a good and decent… — Edward Kennedy
Congress has an obligation to protect our country's natural beauty, embodied in our nation's parks, rivers, and breathtaking landscapes. — Dave Reichert
To promote a woman to bear rule, superiority, dominion, or empire above any realm, nation, or city, is repugnant to nature; contumely to God, a… — John Knox
Jews ate the English nation to its bones. — John Speed
We have by far the most expensive health system in the world. We spend 50 percent more per person than the next most costly nation.… — Kathleen Sebelius
The men and women who serve this great nation, whether they are stationed in Iraq, Fort Riley, or the Korean Peninsula, or they serve us… — Kathleen Sebelius
I am not anti-gun. I'm pro-knife. Consider the merits of the knife. In the first place, you have to catch up with someone in order… — Molly Ivins

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