Our National Quotes
299 quotes by 236 authors
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Baseball may be our national pastime, but the age-old tradition of taking a swing at Congress is a sport with even deeper historical roots in…
— Evan Bayh
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Some say our national pastime is baseball. Not me. It's gossip.
— Erma Bombeck
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As the Senator from Vermont was kind enough to note, I did have the experience of being commander in chief of our National Guard in…
— Christopher Bond
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I will not, nor will I ever, publicly divulge sensitive intelligence sources and methods. For when that happens, our national security is endangered and lives…
— John O. Brennan
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The preservation of our national security and the laws that define us as the United States of America demand that we understand the intersection of…
— John O. Brennan
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Our national drug is alcohol. We tend to regard the use any other drug with special horror.
— William S. Burroughs
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People feel that the EU is heading in a direction that they never signed up to. They resent the interference in our national life by…
— David Cameron
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In the scheme of our national government, the presidency is preeminently the people's office.
— Grover Cleveland
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The United States strongly condemns the illegal disclosure of classified information. It puts people's lives in danger, threatens our national security, and undermines our efforts…
— Hillary Clinton
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If all our national holidays were observed on Wednesdays, we could wind up with nine-day weekends.
— George Carlin
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Is real, it is serious, it is growing, and it constitutes one of the greatest threats to our national security and, indeed, to global security.
— John O. Brennan
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Let me remind you that you have a two-fold task to perform. With the force of arms and at the cost of your blood you…
— Subhas Chandra Bose
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Talk of imminent threat to our national security through the application of external force is pure nonsense. Our threat is from the insidious forces working…
— Douglas MacArthur
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You know, I know, all of us know that the time factor is the vital consideration - and vital is the correct meaning of the…
— George C. Marshall
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Our national defense will be consolidated and no imperialist will be allowed to invade our territory again. Our People's armed forces must be maintained and…
— Mao Zedong
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It behooves us then to humble ourselves before the offended Power to confess our national sins and to pray for clemency and forgiveness...
— Abraham Lincoln
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Millions of Americans each year use our national forests to go hiking, fishing, hunting, camping, swimming, horseback riding, and canoeing.
— Ric Keller
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We beseech [God] to pardon our national and other transgressions...
— George Washington
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Decoration Day is the most beautiful of our national holidays.... The grim cannon have turned into palm branches, and the shell and shrapnel into peach…
— Thomas Bailey Aldrich
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On the unofficial level it was a glorious moment in our national life because young people decided that this had to stop, that they could…
— William Kunstler
Who Wrote These Our National Quotes
236 authors contributed a total of 299 Our National Quotes, led by these top contributors: