Nation Quotes
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A nation is the same people living in the same place. (Quote by - James Joyce)
From hence, let fierce contending nations know, What dire effects from civil discord flow. (Quote by - Joseph Addison)
Nations have always good reasons for being what they are, and the best of all is that they cannot be otherwise. (Quote by - Marquis De Custine)
The nation which reposes on the pillow of political confidence, will sooner or later end its political existence in a deadly lethargy. (Quote by - James Madison)
There is nothing that strengthens a nation like reading of a nation's own history, whether that history is recorded in books or embodied in customs, institutions and monuments. (Quote by - Joseph Anderson)
He who controls the money supply of a nation controls the nation. (Quote by - James A. Garfield)
In a republican nation, whose citizens are to be led by reason and persuasion and not by force, the art of reasoning becomes of first importance. (Quote by - Thomas Jefferson)
A nation which has forgotten the quality of courage which in the past has been brought to public life is not as likely to insist upon or regard that quality in its chosen leaders today - and in fact we have forgotten. (Quote by - John Fitzgerald Kennedy)
Each nation feels superior to other nations. That breeds patriotism - and wars. (Quote by - Dale Carnegie)
A nation is a totality of men united through community of fate into a community of character. (Quote by - Otto Bauer)
There was never a nation that became great until it came to the knowledge that it had nowhere in the world to go for help. (Quote by - Charles Dudley Warner)
Poor nations are hungry, and rich nations are proud; and pride and hunger will ever be at variance. (Quote by - Jonathan Swift )
A nation as a society forms a moral person, and every member of it is personally responsible for his society. (Quote by - Thomas Jefferson)
I would rather belong to a poor nation that was free than to a rich nation that had ceased to be in love with liberty. (Quote by - Woodrow T. Wilson )
Men may be linked in friendship. Nations are linked only by interests. (Quote by - Rolf Hochhuth)
A nation reveals itself not only by the men it produces but also by the men it honors, the men it remembers. (Quote by - John Fitzgerald Kennedy)
A nation may lose its liberties in a day and not miss them in a century. (Quote by - Charles de Montesquieu)
There was never a nation great until it came to the knowledge that it had nowhere in the world to go for help. (Quote by - Charles Dudley Warner)
The nation will find it very hard to look up to the leaders who are keeping their ears to the ground. (Quote by - Winston Churchill)
Men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all the other alternatives. (Quote by - Abba Eban )
Most nations, as well as people are impossible only in their youth; they become incorrigible as they grow older. (Quote by - Jean Jacques Rousseau )
All through history it's the nations that have given most to generals and the least to the people that have been the first to fall. (Quote by - Harry S Truman)
The world has never yet seen a truly great and virtuous nation because in the degradation of woman the very fountains of life are poisoned at their source. (Quote by - Lucretia Mott)
A national debt, if it is not excessive, will be to us a national blessing. (Quote by - Alexander Hamilton)
There is no calamity which a great nation can invite which equals that which follows a supine submission to wrong and injustice. (Quote by - Grover Cleveland)
A nation is a thing that lives and acts like a man and men are the particulars of which it is composed. (Quote by - Josiah Gilbert Holland)
Here rests the soul of our nation-here also should be our conscience. (Quote by - Caspar W. Weinberger)
The laws of a nation form the most instructive portion of its history. (Quote by - Edward Biggon)
In all nations an exceptional man exists that compensates the deficiencies of the remainder. In those moments, when humanity is found collectively in a state of decadence, there always remain those exceptional beings as point of reference. (Quote by - Augusto Roa Bastos)
If you want to study the social and political history of modern nations, study hell. (Quote by - Thomas Merton)
No nation has ever failed to prosper when its people put God first and their country second. (Quote by - Harold Lindsell)
Small nations are like indecently dressed women. They tempt the evil-minded. (Quote by - Julius K. Nyerere)
No nation has friends only interests. (Quote by - Charles de Gaulle)
No matter how big a nation is, it is no stronger that its weakest people, and as long as you keep a person down, some part of you has to be down there to hold him down, so it means you cannot soar as you might otherwise (Quote by - Marian Anderson)
Weeding is plant racism. (Quote by - Saiom Shriver)
It is clear our nation is reliant upon big foreign oil. More and more of our imports come from overseas. (Quote by - George W. Bush)
No nation is fit to sit in judgment upon any other nation. (Quote by - Woodrow Wilson)
A nation which makes the final sacrifice for life and freedom does not get beaten. (Quote by - Kemal Ataturk)
America is a rebellious nation. Our whole history is treason; our blood was attained before we were born; our creeds were infidelity to the mother church; our constitution treason to our fatherland. (Quote by - Theodore Parker)
A strong nation, like a strong person, can afford to be gentle, firm, thoughtful, and restrained. It can afford to extend a helping hand to others. It's a weak nation, like a weak person, that must behave with bluster and boasting and rashness and other signs of insecurity. (Quote by - Jimmy Carter)
I made efforts to swallow tears and to protect the species of the Japanese nation. (Quote by - Hirohito)
No one can terrorize a whole nation, unless we are all his accomplices. (Quote by - Edward R. Murrow)
So that this nation may long endure, I urge you to follow in the hallowed footsteps of the great disobedience of history that freed exiles, founded religions, defeated tyrants, and yes, in the hands of an aroused rabble in arms and a few great men. (Quote by - Charlton Heston)
A nation can assume that the addition of the words "under God" to its pledge of allegiance gives evidence that its citizens actually believe in God whereas all it really proves is that they believe in "believing" in God. (Quote by - Huston Smith)
Great nations write their autobiographies in three manuscripts -- the book of their deeds, the book of their words and the book of their art. (Quote by - John Ruskin)
In every particular state of the world, those nations which are strongest tend to prevail over the others; and in certain marked peculiarities the strongest tend to be the best. (Quote by - Walter Bagehot)
Democratic nations must try to find ways to starve the terrorist and the hijacker of the oxygen of publicity on which they depend. (Quote by - Margaret Thatcher)
If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom; and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that too. (Quote by - William Somerset Maugham)
Territory is but the body of a nation. The people who inhabit its hills and valleys are its soul, its spirit, its life. (Quote by - James A. Garfield)
There is such a thing as a nation being so right that it it does not need to convince others by force that it is right. (Quote by - Woodrow T. Wilson)
Nations, like men, have their infancy. (Quote by - Henry Bolingbroke)
You can tell the ideals of a nation by its advertisements. (Quote by - George Norman Douglas)
Every nation sincerely desires peace; and all nations pursue courses which if persisted in, must make peace impossible. (Quote by - Norman Angell)
A nation, like a person, has a mind--a mind that must be kept informed and alert, that must know itself, that understands the hopes and needs of its neighbors--all the other nations that live within the narrowing circle of the world. (Quote by - Franklin Delano Roosevelt)
Any nation that can survive what we have lately in the way of government, is on the high road to permanent glory. (Quote by - Molly Ivins )
A nation is a society united by a delusion about its ancestry and by common hatred of its neighbours. (Quote by - W. R. Inge)
The nation's honor is dearer than the nation's comfort; yes, than the nation's life itself. (Quote by - Woodrow Wilson)
No modern nation has ever constructed a foreign policy that was acceptable to its intellectuals. (Quote by - Irving Kristol)
A nation never falls but by suicide. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual death. (Quote by - Martin Luther King, Jr.)
The decline of literature indicates the decline of a nation. (Quote by - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)
The strength of a nation derives from the integrity of the home. (Quote by - Confucius)
The destiny of any nation at any given time depends on the opinions of its young men under five-and-twenty. (Quote by - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)
No nation is permitted to live in ignorance with impunity. (Quote by - Thomas Jefferson)
One of the most basic principles for making and keeping peace within and between nations. . . is that in political, military, moral, and spiritual confrontations, there should be an honest attempt at the reconciliation of differences before resorting (Quote by - Jimmy Carter )
The history of any nation follows an undulatory course. In the trough of the wave we find more or less complete anarchy; but the crest is not more or less complete Utopia, but only, at best, a tolerably humane, partially free and fairly just society that invariably carries within itself the seeds of its own decadence. (Quote by - Aldous Huxley)
The strength of a nation, especially of a republican nation, is in the intelligent and well ordered homes of the people. (Quote by - Lydia Sigourney)
