Nation Quotes
4403 Nation quotes by 2232 unique authors
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If we go back to the heyday of that era I think we will see replicated again the extraordinary human damage that we as a…
— Glenda Jackson
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The folly and hubris of the policy makers who heedlessly thrust the nation into an ill-defined and open-ended 'global war on terror' without the foggiest…
— Andrew Bacevich
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The American teacher stands on the front lines of poverty and inequity that our fellow Americans refuse to acknowledge, on the front lines of the…
— John Kuhn
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There is a city myth that country life was isolated and lonely; the truth is that farmers and their families then had a richer social…
— Rose Wilder Lane
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It is true that we have not deliberately or wholly abandoned the Christian element in our tradition, but does that element count with us as…
— Robert McCracken
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This nation, this generation, in this hour has man's first chance to build a Great Society, a place where the meaning of man's life matches…
— Lyndon B. Johnson
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I doubt if the texture of Southern life is any more grotesque than that of the rest of the nation, but it does seem evident…
— Flannery O'Connor
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Terrorism [is] a biological consequence of the multinationals, just as a day of fever is the reasonable price of an effective vaccine . . .…
— Umberto Eco
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When you fight, you don't fight for abstract values like the flag, or the nation, or democracy. You fight for your buddy. You fight to…
— Richard Marcinko
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I like to think of mathematicians as forming a nation of our own without distinctions of geographical origin, race, creed, sex, age or even time...…
— Unknown Author
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Many of us have a tendency to forget the Gracious Hand which has preserved our nation, enriched it, strengthened it. Many of us imagine in…
— Ezra Taft Benson
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Out of the public schools comes the greatness of the nation.
— Mark Twain
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Few legislators who passed these mental health laws realized that (Brock) Chisholm and his associates defined mental illness as a sense of loyalty to a…
— Unknown Author
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No nation keeps its word. A nation is a big, blind worm, following what? Fate perhaps. A nation has no honor, it has no word…
— Carl Jung
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Not with dreams, but with blood and with iron, Shall a nation be moulded at last.
— Algernon Charles Swinburne
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The First Amendment reads more like a dream than a law, and no other nation, so far as I know, has been crazy enough to…
— Kurt Vonnegut
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I believe that each of us-no matter what our age or background or walk of life-each of us has something to contribute to the life…
— Michelle Obama
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As long as there is poverty in the world I can never be rich, even if I have a billion dollars. As long as diseases…
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Love is a simple practice yet it is very beneficial for the individual who practices it as well as for the community in which he…
— Dalai Lama
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Love is the spirit of life unto the adorned body of mankind, the establisher of true civilization in this mortal world, and the shedder of…
— Abdu'l-Bahá
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...We are intensely proud of their noble record and are glad to have had the whole world see how irresistible they are in their might…
— Woodrow Wilson
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A citizen of an advanced industrialized nation consumes in six months the energy and raw materials that have to last the citizen of a developing…
— Maurice Strong
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The advertising man is a liaison between the products of business and the mind of the nation. He must know both before he can serve…
— Glenn Frank
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Football's the biggest game in the world. America's the greatest sporting nation there is. To play some part in putting those two things together: why…
— David Beckham
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Was not Abraham Lincoln an extremist? - "This nation cannot survive half slave and half free."
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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