Chosen Nation Quotes

#1. There is, of course, only one chosen nation. But Abraham Lincoln would call America 'an almost chosen nation' because he believed that America had a providential role to play in history, inspired by the example of God's ancient covenant people.

Meir Soloveichik

#2. Strange, how the name Israel, God's own chosen nation, who don't believe Jesus to be the Messiah, sounds almost the same as saying is He real?

Anthony Liccione

#3. We go forward with complete confidence in the eventual triumph of freedom. Not because history runs on the wheels of inevitability; it is human choices that move events. Not because we consider ourselves a chosen nation; God moves and chooses as He wills.

George W. Bush

#4. As long as there are guns, the individual that wants a gun for a crime is going to have one and going to get it. The only person who's going to be penalized and have difficulty is the law-abiding citizen, who then cannot have [it] if he wants protection
the protection of a weapon in his home.

Ronald Reagan

#5. As the years go by, you get to know yourself better and learn what works for you.

Marie Helvin

#6. The Hebrews took for their idol, not something made of metal or wood, but a race, a nation, something just as earthly. Their religion is essentially inseparable from such idolatry, because of the notion of the 'chosen people'.

Simone Weil

#7. Being a good parent is not an obligation, it is a choice. Plenty of people fall short in the parent category and quite a few refuse to accept it. You will do a much better job if you understand that taking care of your children is a choice not an obligation.

Gudjon Bergmann

#8. In regard to intellect and true virtue, every nation is on a par with the rest, and God has not in these respects chosen one people rather than another.

Baruch Spinoza

#9. I am a man, and I will be treated as such. I answer to only one king and His kingdom will come, His will be done. We have chosen sides and we choose God. America as a nation must do the same, as well.

Glenn Beck

#10. I am a great writer.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#11. We are born in relationship, we are wounded in relationship, and we can be healed in relationship.

Harville Hendrix

#12. I don't believe god has a darling tribe or nation, all tribes and nations are his darlings.

Bangambiki Habyarimana

#13. You have to clean out the pig barn every week because you know your pigs are in there doing their jobs every day.

Don Meyer

#14. The two great political parties of the nation have existed for the purpose, each in accordance with its own principles, of undertaking to serve the interests of the whole nation. Their members of the Congress are chosen with that great end in view.

Calvin Coolidge

#15. If our nation is to rebuild opportunity for future generations, it will require our elected leaders to realize that their responsibility lies not with their political party, but rather with the American people that they have been chosen to represent.

Ami Bera

#16. The sense that thousands and millions of children and young people are being sexually violated and that there's this huge silence about it around me angers me.

Sunitha Krishnan

#17. Does anyone ever get the best of you?" "Yes," she returned, "but only when I choose to give it to them.

Courtney Milan

#18. A nation which has forgotten the quality of courage which in the past has been brought to public life is not as likely to insist upon or regard that quality in its chosen leaders today - and in fact we have forgotten.

John F. Kennedy

#19. You were chosen by God to create the destiny of the nation and to lay a foundation for the generations to come

Sunday Adelaja

#20. Israel was God's chosen people, the nation whose God was the Lord. This unique status has not passed to America or to any other earthly nation.

Michael Babcock

#21. The effect of a representative democracy is to refine and enlarge the public views, by passing them through the medium of a chosen body of citizens, whose wisdom may best discern the true interest of the nation ...

James Madison

#22. I fired a bunch of people and kind of went back to my roots. I fired my agent - I had this big, fancy agent and a big fancy manager and a big fancy lawyer - and I went back to my first agent and said, "I want to go back to just being an actor."

Matthew Lillard

#23. Our National Motto - 'In God We Trust' - was not chosen lightly. It reflects a basic recognition that there is a divine authority in the universe to which this nation owes homage.

Ronald Reagan

#24. I made up my mind that I would hold onto nothing, that I would expect nothing.

Henry Miller

#25. You say to yourself: 'What could people, in all these countries, find in my books?' and yet I think we're all the same, anywhere. Everybody is a hero or a dramatic person in their own story if you just know where to look.

Maeve Binchy

#26. I've written a lot of wordy, erudite, pretentious songs, but believe it or not, I'm usually doing my damnedest to resist the temptation to be overly "clever," and trying to keep things as accessible - and singable - as possible.

Peter Blegvad

#27. Israel, and you who call yourself Israel, the Church that calls itself Israel, and the revolt that calls itself Israel, and every nation chosen to be a nation - none of these lands is yours, all of you are thieves of holiness, all of you at war with Mercy.

Leonard Cohen

#28. Tears shall drown the wind

William Shakespeare

#29. A surgeon needs to be calm. Worry just wastes time. It

Brandon Sanderson