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We must think and act like a nation of a billion people and not like that of a million people. Dream, dream, dream!
Abdul Kalam

Dream, Act, Million

I had faith in Israel before it was established, I have in it now. I believe it has a glorious future before it - not just another sovereign nation, but as an embodiment of the great ideals of our civilization.
Harry S. Truman

Faith, Great, Future

What this country needs what every country needs occasionally is a good hard bloody war to revive the vice of patriotism on which its existence as a nation depends.
Ambrose Bierce

Good, War, Patriotism

India has to be transformed into a developed nation, a prosperous nation and a healthy nation, with a value system.
Abdul Kalam

Value, Healthy, System

When a nation is surrounded by weaponized nations, she has to equip herself.
Abdul Kalam

She, Nations, Herself

Agriculture not only gives riches to a nation, but the only riches she can call her own.
Samuel Johnson

Every nation has to follow a certain policy: Commercial, trade, various other types of policies.
Abdul Kalam

Follow, Policy, Trade

Even if I died in the service of the nation, I would be proud of it. Every drop of my blood... will contribute to the growth of this nation and to make it strong and dynamic.
Indira Gandhi

Strong, Proud, Service

For those who aspire to live in a high cost, high tax, big government place, our nation and the world offers plenty of options. Vermont, Canada and Venezuela all offer you the opportunity to live in the socialist, big government paradise you long for.
Marco Rubio

Government, Live, Long

The Youth of a Nation are the trustees of posterity.
Benjamin Disraeli

Youth, Posterity, Trustees

What affects men sharply about a foreign nation is not so much finding or not finding familiar things; it is rather not finding them in the familiar place.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

Men, Place, Rather

Without publicity there can be no public support, and without public support every nation must decay.
Benjamin Disraeli

Support, Public, Publicity

We must always remember that America is a great nation today not because of what government did for people but because of what people did for themselves and for one another.
Richard M. Nixon

Great, Government, Today

If anyone has seen the horrific and unwatchable footage of the Chinese cat and dog trade - animals skinned alive - then they could not possibly argue in favour of China as a caring nation. There are no animal protection laws in China and this results in the worst animal abuse and cruelty on the planet. It is indefensible.
Steven Patrick Morrissey

Caring, Alive, Dog

Can a nation be free if it oppresses other nations? It cannot.
Vladimir Lenin

Cannot, Free, Nations

Any nation that thinks more of its ease and comfort than its freedom will soon lose its freedom; and the ironical thing about it is that it will lose its ease and comfort too.
W. Somerset Maugham

Freedom, Lose, Soon

And in my own life, in my own small way, I've tried to give back to this country that has given me so much. That's why I left a job at a law firm for a career in public service, working to empower young people to volunteer in their communities. Because I believe that each of us - no matter what our age or background or walk of life - each of us has something to contribute to the life of this nation.
Michelle Obama

We live in an age when to be young and to be indifferent can be no longer synonymous. We must prepare for the coming hour. The claims of the Future are represented by suffering millions; and the Youth of a Nation are the trustees of Posterity.
Benjamin Disraeli

Age, Future, Live

All those who seek to destroy the liberties of a democratic nation ought to know that war is the surest and shortest means to accomplish it.
Alexis de Tocqueville

War, Means, Democratic

Manners are the hypocrisy of a nation.
Honore de Balzac

Hypocrisy, Manners

Our nation was created in ways that allow human potential to prosper, and it created the greatest nation for people in the history of humanity. Now Obama is dismantling it, because he has no appreciation for our greatness. In fact, he resents it. He blames this country for whatever evils he sees around the world.
Rush Limbaugh

History, Greatest, Human

King Louis Philippe once said to me that he attributed the great success of the British nation in political life to their talking politics after dinner.
Benjamin Disraeli

Life, Success, Politics

Those who served, and those who continue to serve in the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines, and Coast Guard took an oath to uphold and protect the Constitution against all enemies foreign and domestic, and we can never forget the importance of their commitment to our Nation.
Robin Hayes

Forget, Against, Took

Every nation ridicules other nations, and all are right.
Arthur Schopenhauer

Outside the kingdom of the Lord there is no nation which is greater than any other. God and history will remember your judgment.
Haile Selassie

God, History, Remember

A weak currency is the sign of a weak economy, and a weak economy leads to a weak nation.
Ross Perot

Weak, Economy, Sign

A nation is a society united by a delusion about its ancestry and by common hatred of its neighbours.
William Ralph Inge

Society, Hatred, United

Political liberty, the peace of a nation, and science itself are gifts for which Fate demands a heavy tax in blood!
Honore de Balzac

Peace, Science, Political

This nation will remain the land of the free only so long as it is the home of the brave.
Elmer Davis

Home, Long, Brave

Our chief justices have probably had more profound and lasting influence on their times and on the direction of the nation than most presidents.
Richard M. Nixon

Times, Direction, Influence

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