Best Our National Thoughts
299 Our National quotes by 236 unique authors
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At the rate America is decaying morally, we shall have to change our national symbol from an eagle to a vulture.
— Vance Havner
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[Criticizing as "appalingly complacent" a Conservative Government report that by the '60s, Britain would be producing all the scientists needed] Of course we shall, if…
— Harold Wilson
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Why should one U.S. airman give up his life when our national security is not in imminent danger?
— Sean Hannity
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With each new book, the march of our national history takes a step forward. When one is present at a book launch, one is bearing…
— Ibrahim Babangida
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Our National Guard, as I think everybody knows, has provided about 40 percent of the boots on the ground in Iraq and in the conflict…
— Christopher Bond
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Legislation passed in the aftermath of September 11, 2001 enhanced our intelligence capabilities and strengthened our national defense, but until now our nation's immigration policies…
— Chris Chocola
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We know that the most fundamental responsibility of our Federal Government is to ensure the safety of its people and to protect and ensure our…
— Vito Fossella
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Allowing suspects to indefinitely linger in our cells is, in fact, detrimental to our national security goals. If a suspect is proven to be a…
— John Garamendi
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Reaffirming the justice of the American system bolsters our legitimacy with allies, thereby encouraging further cooperation and improving our national security.
— John Garamendi
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The right to a trial is a core principle of the American legal system. Depriving Americans of these essential liberties undermines the Constitution while doing…
— John Garamendi
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The day Elvis passed away would be our national holiday, if the South would have won, we'd had it made.
— Hank Williams, Jr.
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Therefore, if we are a Nation of laws and a Nation of immigrants, immigration should occur within a legal framework, not through the machinations of…
— J D Hayworth
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I look forward to an America which will not be afraid of grace and beauty, which will protect the beauty of our natural environment, which…
— John F. Kennedy
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We all recognize that in recent decades, many important achievements have helped create a cleaner, healthier environment, yet our national needs in environmental health are…
— Samuel Wilson
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We must surely appear to the world as exactly what we are: a nation that organizes its economy around consuming twice as much oil as…
— Barbara Kingsolver
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I suppose, to use our national motto, something will turn up.
— Benjamin Disraeli
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It would be easier to pay off the national debt overnight than to neutralise the long-range effects of our national stupidity
— Frank Zappa
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The single most important duty of the federal government is to protect and defend our national sovereignty. There are new and disturbing reports of American…
— Stephen Harper
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I would urge that we all use a little bit of caution in dealing with an issue that is so vital to our national security.
— Theodore Stevens
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At the desk where I sit, I have learned one great truth. The answer for all our national problems - the answer for all the…
— Lyndon B. Johnson
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The conservation of our natural resources and their proper use constitute the fundamental problem which underlies almost every other problem of our national life.
— Theodore Roosevelt
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Alexander Hamilton originated the put and take system in our national treasury: the taxpayers put it in, and the politicians take it out
— Will Rogers
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I sometimes think we ought to bring a bill before Congress changing our national symbol from the eagle to the buffalo, because we are more…
— Norman Vincent Peale
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Those who oppose all reform will do well to remember that ruin in its worst form is inevitable if our national life brings us nothing…
— Theodore Roosevelt
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And when we view a flag, which to the eye is beautiful, and to contemplate its rise and origin inspires a sensation of sublime delight,…
— Thomas Paine
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