Nation Quotes

A nation devoid of art and artists cannot have a full existence.
Kemal Ataturk

Art, Cannot, Full

We got into a recession because the global economy went into the recession and we're a big exporting nation.
Stephen Harper

Big, Economy, Global

When I went to school, you had to take art, you had to play an instrument. You had to play an instrument. But it's all degraded since then. I do not know what kind of nation we are that is cutting art, music, and gym out of the public-school curriculum.
Spike Lee

Music, Art, School

There is no doubt that our nation's security and defeating terrorism trump all other priorities.
Arlen Specter

Doubt, Priorities, Security

The American people do not care which Party solves the problems confronting our nation.
Arlen Specter

Care, Problems, American

If you seek Hamilton's monument, look around. You are living in it. We honor Jefferson, but live in Hamilton's country, a mighty industrial nation with a strong central government.
George Will

Government, Strong, Live

God is concerned with nations, but nations also need to be concerned with God. No nation can have a monopoly on God, but God will bless any nation whose people seek and honor His will as revealed by Christ and declared through the Holy Spirit.
John Haggai

God, Through, Honor

Poland should be strong and prosperous and independent and play its proper role as a great nation in the heart of Europe.
George H. W. Bush

Great, Strong, Heart

Permanent superiority has never been realized by any nation in history. After the rise comes the fall.
Paul Harris

History, After, Fall

For a nation which has an almost evil reputation for bustle, bustle, bustle, and rush, rush, rush, we spend an enormous amount of time standing around in line in front of windows, just waiting.
Robert Benchley

Time, Waiting, Evil

We call ourselves a free nation, and yet we let ourselves be told what cabs we can and can't take by a man at a hotel door, simply because he has a drum major's uniform on.
Robert Benchley

Free, Door, Ourselves

President Kennedy was willing to go to war. He was not a coward. The man had been in war and so had Ken O'Donnell. He was ready to protect this nation, but he was not ready for a military solution just because it was being rammed down his throat.
Kevin Costner

War, Down, Coward

Our Nation must provide sufficient access to healthcare, adequate benefits, and the supplemental resources our veterans were promised and so dearly need. We owe our heroes no less.
Dan Lipinski

Less, Veterans, Heroes

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

War, Winning, Security

The hope of the nation which throughout the nineteenth century had not for a moment reconciled itself with the loss of independence, and fighting for its own freedom, fought at the same time for the freedom of other nations.
Lech Walesa

Time, Hope, Freedom

My youth passed at the time of the country's reconstruction from the ruins and ashes of the war in which my nation never bowed to the enemy paying the highest price in the struggle.
Lech Walesa

Time, War, Enemy

The sole and basic source of our strength is the solidarity of workers, peasants and the intelligentsia, the solidarity of the nation, the solidarity of people who seek to live in dignity, truth, and in harmony with their conscience.
Lech Walesa

Strength, Truth, Live

I most sincerely wish that the world in which we live be free from the threat of a nuclear holocaust and from the ruinous arms race. It is my cherished desire that peace be not separated from freedom which is the right of every nation. This I desire and for this I pray.
Lech Walesa

Peace, Freedom, Live

This is the time to pull together as a Nation, as different people from all over the States with different perspectives and different social statuses and different income brackets, to unify into one and help those on the ground who need our help the most.
Jack Kingston

Time, Help, Together

Frivolous lawsuits are booming in this county. The U.S. has more costs of litigation per person than any other industrialized nation in the world, and it is crippling our economy.
Jack Kingston

Person, Economy, Costs

The building of America has had its fair share of mistakes, but it's a constitution that's the jewel of democracy, the envy of many, and it's the most generous nation in the world.
Gary Oldman

Mistakes, Envy, Democracy

A government is invigorated when each of us is willing to participate in shaping the future of this nation.
Barbara Jordan

Government, Future, Willing

The attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon shook our nation to the core. Americans were deeply frightened, sad, and angry, and they rallied around a President who, at the time, showed impressive certitude and calm.
Eliot Spitzer

Time, Sad, Angry

Virtually everywhere in the world, people still wake up and want their country to be more like the United States than any other nation. We are the envy of the world because of what we stand for and how our democratic process, flawed as it may often seem to be, operates. We should take pride in that.
Eliot Spitzer

Envy, May, Country

When the United States was founded, the very idea of a nation premised on democratic principles of freedom and tolerance was viewed by the vast majority of the world as an experiment doomed to fail. Dictatorships, monarchies, and theocracies had for many centuries ruled the world.
Eliot Spitzer

Freedom, Idea, Tolerance

The Postal Service's unmatched ability to reach every household and business in America six days a week is a vital part of the nation's infrastructure.
Joe Baca

Business, America, Service

Law in general is human reason, inasmuch as it governs all the inhabitants of the earth: the political and civil laws of each nation ought to be only the particular cases in which human reason is applied.
Charles de Secondat

Political, Human, Law

The spirit of Ubuntu, that once led Haiti to emerge as the first independent black nation in 1804, helped Venezuela, Colombia and Ecuador attain liberty, and inspired our forefathers to shed their blood for the United States' independence, cannot die. Today, this spirit of solidarity must and will empower all of us to rebuild Haiti.
Jean-Bertrand Aristide

Today, Black, Die

Woe to that nation whose literature is cut short by the intrusion of force. This is not merely interference with freedom of the press but the sealing up of a nation's heart, the excision of its memory.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Freedom, Heart, Short

If the American people in a matter of months can love the people of Kuwait, whom they have not seen, they can love the people of our nation's capital just as well.
Jesse Jackson

Love, American, Matter

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