National Character Quotes

28 quotes by 24 authors

We are either a United people, or we are not. If the former, let us, in all maters of general concern act as a nation,… — George Washington
Nothing short of self-respect and that justice which is essential to a national character ought to involve us in war. — George Washington
A character standard is far more important than even a gold standard. The success of all economic systems is still dependent upon both righteous leaders… — Roger Babson
National character cannot be built by law. It is the sum of the moral fiber of its individuals. — Herbert Hoover
The friendliness and charity of our countrymen can always be relied upon to relieve their fellow citizens in misfortune. This has been repeatedly and quite… — Grover Cleveland
Legalized abortion is a national holocaust; an affront to our national character; a contradiction of established principles subscribed to from the beginning of Western Civilization;… — Chuck Baldwin
Most importantly, nothing has happened to change my conviction that freedom and the love of liberty remain the essential defining attributes of our national character… — Ibrahim Babangida
The automobile, practical since 1906, was proceeding to disintegrate and stamp anew the pattern of communication, manners, and city life in the United States, by… — Russell Kirk
Those concerns of a national character-such as air and water pollution that do not respect state boundaries, or the national transportation system, or efforts to… — Ronald Reagan
In the last analysis, our national future depends upon our national character that is, whether it is spiritually or materially minded. — Roger Babson
From blood banking to the modern subway, from jazz to social justice, the contributions of African Americans have shaped and molded and influenced our national… — Bill Frist
Economic power is not the same as strength of national character. Our country may be rich in goods, but we are poor in spirit. — Richard M. Nixon
America has always welcomed anyone willing to assimilate to its national character. But radical Islam rejects assimilation and is bent on the conquest of our… — Nancy Pearcey
Forms of government are forged mainly in the fire of practice, not in the vacuum of theory. They respond to national character and to national… — George F. Kennan
The English have always been greedy for news of times past, with that mixture of fatalism and melancholy which is part of the national character. — Peter Ackroyd
The true key to the declension of the Roman empire which is not to be found in all Gibbon 's immense work may be stated… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The German national character is a favorite subject of character experts, probably because the less mature a nation, the more she is an object of… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
National character is only another name for the particular form which the littleness, perversity and baseness of mankind take in every country. Every nation mocks… — Arthur Schopenhauer
As one digs deeper into the national character of the Americans, one sees that they have sought the value of everything in this world only… — Alexis de Tocqueville
But our trip was different. It was a classic affirmation of everything right and true and decent in the national character. It was a gross,… — Hunter S. Thompson

Who Wrote These National Character Quotes

24 authors contributed a total of 28 National Character Quotes as follows: