But no nation can base its survival and development on luck and prayers alone while its leadership fritters away every available opportunity for success and concrete achievement.
Ibrahim Babangida

And, these Islamic fundamentalists, these radical terrorists, these Middle Eastern monsters are committed to destroying the Jewish nation, driving her into the Mediterranean, conquering the world.
Jerry Falwell

Labor Day is devoted to no man, living or dead, to no sect, race or nation.
Samuel Gompers

He who controls the money supply of a nation controls the nation.
James A. Garfield

Territory is but the body of a nation. The people who inhabit its hills and valleys are its soul, its spirit, its life.
James A. Garfield

We are all murderers and prostitutes - no matter to what culture, society, class, nation one belongs, no matter how normal, moral, or mature, one takes oneself to be.
R. D. Laing

Once to every person and nation come the moment to decide. In the conflict of truth with falsehood, for the good or evil side.
James Russell Lowell

We are a small nation, but strong.
Moshe Dayan

This is a nation that has lost the ability to be self-critical, and that makes a lie out of the freedoms.
Joni Mitchell

To win in Vietnam, we will have to exterminate a nation.
Benjamin Spock

A civilized nation can have no enemies, and one cannot draw a line across a map, a line that doesn't even exist in nature and say that the ugly enemy lives on the one side, and good friends live on the other.
Thor Heyerdahl

A marvel that has nothing to offer, democracy is at once a nation's paradise and its tomb.
Emile M. Cioran

The state has no business in the bedrooms of the nation.
Pierre Trudeau

Finally, in my critique of the immigration image of America, it is also important to know that we're not only a nation of immigrants, but we are in some part a nation of emigrants, which often gets neglected.
Samuel P. Huntington

The other aspect of American identity worth focusing on is the concept of America as a nation of immigrants. That certainly is a partial truth. But it is often assumed to be the total truth.
Samuel P. Huntington

The English (it must be owned) are rather a foul-mouthed nation.
William Hazlitt

When we have done our best, we can, as a united people, take whatever may befall with calm courage and confidence that this old nation will survive and if death should come to many of us, death is not the end.
Eamon de Valera

The major economic policy challenges facing the nation today - pick your favorites among the usual suspects of low public and household savings, concerns about educational quality and achievement, high and rising income inequality, the large imbalances between our social insurance commitments and resources - are not about monetary policy.
Timothy Geithner

We are at war, and our security as a nation depends on winning that war.
Condoleezza Rice

Worthless is the nation that does not gladly stake its all on its honor.
Friedrich Schiller