The way to kill a man or a nation is to cut off his dreams, the way the whites are taking care of the Indians: killing their dreams, their magic, their familiar spirits.
William S. Burroughs

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

In the usual progress of things, the necessities of a nation in every stage of its existence will be found at least equal to its resources.
Alexander Hamilton

There was never a nation great until it came to the knowledge that it had nowhere in the world to go for help.
Charles Dudley Warner

It graduates to 'our state is better than your state,' and 'our nation is better than your nation.' And it circles all the way around to where it started: 'Our God is better than your God.'
Neale Donald Walsch

I was told to challenge every spiritual teacher, every world leader to utter the one sentence that no religion, no political party, and no nation on the face of the earth will dare utter: 'Ours is not a better way, ours is merely another way.
Neale Donald Walsch

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

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

The statesman's duty is to bridge the gap between his nation's experience and his vision.
Henry A. Kissinger

If a nation's literature declines, the nation atrophies and decays.
Ezra Pound

I know that my works are a credit to this nation and I dare say they will endure longer than the McCarran Act.
Arthur Miller

A good newspaper, I suppose, is a nation talking to itself.
Arthur Miller

The nation that complacently and fearfully allows its artists and writers to become suspected rather than respected is no longer regarded as a nation possessed with humor or depth.
James Thurber

Our nation is today a powerful nation.
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

If a country is to be corruption free and become a nation of beautiful minds, I strongly feel there are three key societal members who can make a difference. They are the father, the mother and the teacher.
Abdul Kalam

Tell me, why is the media here so negative? Why are we in India so embarrassed to recognise our own strengths, our achievements? We are such a great nation. We have so many amazing success stories but we refuse to acknowledge them. Why?
Abdul Kalam

Why are we, as a nation so obsessed with foreign things? Is it a legacy of our colonial years? We want foreign television sets. We want foreign shirts. We want foreign technology. Why this obsession with everything imported?
Abdul Kalam

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

I see a lot of patterns in our behavior as a nation that parallel a lot of other historical processes.
Maynard James Keenan

Our nation must come together to unite.
George W. Bush