The minister of the Gospel is really the yardstick by which the nation measures its morals.
Jimmy Swaggart

To reform a world, to reform a nation, no wise man will undertake; and all but foolish men know, that the only solid, though a far slower reformation, is what each begins and perfects on himself.
Thomas Carlyle

Reform is not pleasant, but grievous; no person can reform themselves without suffering and hard work, how much less a nation.
Thomas Carlyle

A good nation I will make live.
Black Elk

We are the nation the most powerful, the most armed and we are supplying arms and money to the rest of the world where we are not ourselves fighting. We are eating while there is famine in the world.
Dorothy Day

I was right to back Muhammad Ali, but it caused me major enmity in many areas of this nation.
Howard Cosell

So I took the bright red stick and at the center of the nation's hoop I thrust it in the earth.
Black Elk

The United States is not a nation to which peace is a necessity.
Grover Cleveland

It's the quality of the ordinary, the straight, the square, that accounts for the great stability and success of our nation. It's a quality to be proud of. But it's a quality that many people seem to have neglected.
Gerald R. Ford

A war for a great principle ennobles a nation.
Albert Pike

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

The upward course of a nation's history is due in the long run to the soundness of heart of its average men and women.
Elizabeth II

Agitation is the marshalling of the conscience of a nation to mold its laws.
Robert Peel

It was a weak spot in any nation to have a large body of disaffected people within its confusion.
Zora Neale Hurston

Back in the thirties we were told we must collectivize the nation because the people were so poor. Now we are told we must collectivize the nation because the people are so rich.
William F. Buckley, Jr.

To act coolly, intelligently and prudently in perilous circumstances is the test of a man - and also a nation.
Adlai E. Stevenson

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