Nation Quotes

As individuals and as a nation, we now suffer from social narcissism. The beloved Echo of our ancestors, the virgin America, has been abandoned. We have fallen in love with our own image, with images of our making, which turn out to be images of ourselves.
Daniel J. Boorstin

Love, America, Making

As a people of faith, we know that prayer is a powerful instrument. And as one Nation under God, we know that many times our most powerful tool is prayer.
Nick Rahall

Faith, God, Powerful

The men and women of Afghanistan are building a nation that is free, and proud, and fighting terror - and America is honored to be their friend.
George W. Bush

Women, Men, Friend

We cannot let terrorists hold this nation hostile or hold our allies hostile.
George W. Bush

Cannot, Hold, Terrorists

The nation... doesn't simply need what we have. It needs what we are.
Edith Stein

It is the awareness of unfulfilled desires which gives a nation the feeling that it has a mission and a destiny.
Eric Hoffer

Feeling, Destiny, Mission

We call ourselves public servants but I'll tell you this: we as public servants must set an example for the rest of the nation. It is hypocritical for the public official to admonish and exhort the people to uphold the common good.
Barbara Jordan

Good, Tell, Public

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

Money, Controls, Supply

Nigeria is a West African nation of over 100 million energetic people. It is endowed with lots of natural resources but lacks human resources.
Philip Emeagwali

Human, Natural, Million

Size is not grandeur, and territory does not make a nation.
Thomas Huxley

Size, Grandeur, Territory

From the bitter cold winter at Valley Forge, to the mountains of Afghanistan and the deserts of Iraq, our soldiers have courageously answered when called, gone where ordered, and defended our nation with honor.
Solomon Ortiz

Honor, Soldiers, Cold

Every nation whose affairs betray a want of wisdom and stability may calculate on every loss which can be sustained from the more systematic policy of its wiser neighbors.
James Madison

Wisdom, May, Betray

Today we affirm a new commitment to live out our nation's promise through civility, courage, compassion and character.
George W. Bush

Courage, Today, Character

No one can terrorize a whole nation, unless we are all his accomplices.
Edward R. Murrow

Every nation on the Earth that embraces market economics and the free enterprise system is pulling millions of its people out of poverty. The free enterprise system creates prosperity, not denies it.
Marco Rubio

Free, Poverty, Earth

By failing seriously to confront the most predicable economic crisis in our nation's history, the President's policies are committing us and our children to a diminished future.
Paul Ryan

History, Future, Crisis

Faith crosses every border and touches every heart in every nation.
George W. Bush

Faith, Heart, Border

Liberty is a great celestial Goddess, strong, beneficent, and austere, and she can never descend upon a nation by the shouting of crowds, nor by arguments of unbridled passion, nor by the hatred of class against class.
Annie Besant

Great, Strong, Passion

The resolve of our great nation is being tested. But make no mistake, we will show the world that we will pass the test.
George W. Bush

Great, Show, Mistake

A leader who doesn't hesitate before he sends his nation into battle is not fit to be a leader.
Golda Meir

Battle, Before, Leader

I started out mopping floors, waiting tables, and tending bar at my dad's tavern. I put myself through school working odd jobs and night shifts. I poured my heart and soul into a small business. And when I saw how out-of-touch Washington had become with the core values of this great nation, I put my name forward and ran for office.
John Boehner

Great, Business, Dad

There is no cure for the pride of a virtuous nation but pure religion.
Reinhold Niebuhr

Religion, Pride, Pure

Our Nation must defend the sanctity of marriage.
George W. Bush

Marriage, Defend, Sanctity

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

Rather, English, Owned

Resolved, that the women of this nation in 1876, have greater cause for discontent, rebellion and revolution than the men of 1776.
Susan B. Anthony

Women, Men, Revolution

I am certain that I speak on behalf of my entire nation when I say: September 11th we are all Americans - in grief, as in defiance.
Benjamin Netanyahu

Speak, Grief, September

A self-respecting nation is ready for anything, including war, except for a renunciation of its option to make war.
Simone Weil

War, Ready, Except

Stay with us, please remain in this country and constitute a nation based on national unity.
Robert Mugabe

Country, Stay, National

The separation of church and state is a source of strength, but the conscience of our nation does not call for separation between men of state and faith in the Supreme Being.
Lyndon B. Johnson

Faith, Men, Strength

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.
Woodrow Wilson

Love, Liberty, Rich

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