Top 100 Nation Quotes
#1. we can form an objective judgment of the nation, race, or continent to which we belong only when we have lived for a time in a foreign country and so are able to look at our own country from without. How,
C. G. Jung
#2. A strong nation, like a strong person, can afford to be gentle, firm, thoughtful, and restrained. It can afford to extend a helping hand to others. It's a weak nation, like a weak person, that must behave with bluster and boasting and rashness and other signs of insecurity.
Jimmy Carter
#3. Ultimately, the only wealth that can sustain any community, economy or nation is derived from the photosynthetic process - green plants growing on regenerating soil.
Allan Savory
#4. I'm not only my father's daughter, but also a daughter of the nation he founded. And protecting both is what I've always done.
Laura Kamoie
#5. I don't mind people trying to pick apart my policies, and that's fine and that's fair game. But, you know, I don't think we're serving our nation well by allowing the discourse to become so uncivil that people use words that they shouldn't be using.
George W. Bush
#6. But even a nation of laws must understand the limits of legalism.
Richard Perle
#7. I've always loved being gay. Sure, Kenya was not exactly Queer Nation but my sexuality gave me joy. I was young, not so dumb and full of cum! There was no place for me in heaven but I was content munching devil's pie here on earth.
Diriye Osman
#8. Gully Foyle is my name
And Terra is my nation.
Deep space is my dwelling place,
The stars my destination.
Alfred Bester
#9. That religion and that nation will be blotted out of the face of the earth which pins its faith on injustice, untruth or violence.
Mahatma Gandhi
#10. Self-discovery is the process of learning about who you are as an individual, independent from your friends, family, employer, or nation.
Scott Berkun
#11. Let me be clear: we are still a nation of immigrants, and we honor all those immigrants who are working hard to become new citizens.
William J. Clinton
#12. Obama is thoroughly mixed up with all these things he's got. He's got to solve Libya. He's got to solve Afghanistan. He's everywhere. And this nation, I don't know why it's not showing the leadership and capacity to attend different issues at the same time.
Vicente Fox
#13. Environmental degradation, overpopulation, refugees, narcotics, terrorism, world crime movements, and organized crime are worldwide problems that don't stop at a nation's borders.
Warren Christopher
#14. The Reagan years "produced one of the most dramatic redistributions of income in the nation's history ... The income of families in the bottom decile fell by 10.4 percent ... while the income of those in the top one percent rose by 87.1 percent."
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Thomas B. Edsall
#15. Since his inauguration in 2009, President Obama has upheld FDR's vision of America as a nation that keeps its word - a nation still committed to uphold the 'four freedoms' that President Roosevelt set down in the great Atlantic Charter of August 1941.
Nigel Hamilton
#16. The nation guarantees the nurture, education, and comfortable maintenance of every citizen from the cradle to the grave.
Edward Bellamy
#17. You can tell the strength of a nation by the women behind its men.
Benjamin Disraeli
#18. Neither the military might nor the economic and technological development makes a nation great. It is made great by it's citizens with Self Respect and Integrity ingrained in their lives.
Pandurang Shastri Athavale
#19. I know it is easy to criticise and I accept it is a difficult job managing England but the man in charge must be passionate and realise he owes it to the nation to win the World Cup.
Dave Whelan
#20. I know you don't think that any tongue I speak is mine; it must be rented. I am always denial, or pretense. A child born mid-flight has no nation. I can pull on either culture, but they always melt like a dream, trickle away, water on the oiled pelt of foreign.
Jasmine Ann Cooray
#21. The abuse of detainees in U.S. custody has severely undermined our Nation's position in the world.
Diane Watson
#22. I walked out on American Gangster: this evil piece of dreck. Defenders of this junk say that these movies give Black actors jobs. So did "Birth of a Nation."
Ishmael Reed
#23. I have prayed with the families and wept at the funerals of Hoosiers who did not shrink from 9-11 but grew into heroes whose names will forever be engraved in the heart of a grateful nation.
Mike Pence
#24. But with respect to future debt; would it not be wise and just for that nation to declare in the constitution they are forming that neither the legislature, nor the nation itself can validly contract more debt, than they may pay within their own age, or within the term of 19 years.
Thomas Jefferson
#25. If we just go back to the basics ... I do not want to give up our republic and become a socialistic ideological nation. That's not who we are.
Diane Hendricks
#26. Little has changed in our New York neighborhoods except the faces, the names, and the languages spoken. The same decent values of hard work and accomplishment and service to city and nation still exist.
David Dinkins
#27. Every nation has a right to govern itself internally under what forms it pleases, and to change these forms at its own will.
Thomas Jefferson
#28. Liberty is, to the lowest rank of every nation, little more than the choice of working or starving.
Samuel Johnson
#29. 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
#30. In the long march of history, at least two poles of attraction and antagonism have been the norm in world politics. Rarely has only one nation carried the burden of leadership. The unipolar world of the 21st century, dominated for the past two decades by the United States, is a historical anomaly.
Eskinder Nega
#31. The nation did not begin to realize the extraordinary possibilities of the vast Western territory until its attention was thus suddenly and definitely concentrated on the Pacific by the annual addition of over fifty million dollars to the circulating medium.
John Moody
#32. 'Peace on earth, good will toward men' - democracy must cling to that message. For it is my deep conviction that democracy cannot live without that true religion which gives a nation a sense of justice and moral purpose.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
#33. If the country is to survive as a democracy it will depend on voters who understand how our political institutions have evolved and the events that went into their creation. A nation's sense of its history is indistinguishable from its social cohesion.
Alan Bullock
#34. Parental teaching is a natural duty
who so fit to look to the child's well being as those who are the authors of his actual being? To neglect the instruction of our offspring is worse than brutish. Family religion is necessary for the nation, for the family itself, and for the church of God.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#36. When George Washington directed federal troops to exterminate the Onondaga during the Revolutionary War, a nation that had numbered in the tens of thousands was reduced to a few hundred people in a matter of one year.
Robin Wall Kimmerer
#37. God has called us to be His representatives in our nation and in our world. Select candidates who represent your views and work for their election.
James Dobson
#38. How can the boy who stirred an entire nation be dying?
Marie Lu
#39. Uganda's Constitutional Court will decide whether the military court can proceed with this trial. A nation cannot claim to be operating under the rule of law if its military tribunals ignore the orders of civilian courts.
Bill Vaughan
#40. We have become aware of the responsibility for our attitude towards the dark pages in our history. We have understood that bad service is done to the nation by those who are impelling to renounce that past.
Aleksander Kwasniewski
#41. India is a geographical term. It is no more a united nation than the Equator.
Winston Churchill
#42. There is no pulse so sure of the state of a nation as its characteristic art product which has nothing to do with its material life.
Gertrude Stein
#43. When a nation is under oppression for too long, it gets used to it and begins to agree with that oppression
Sunday Adelaja
#44. The time comes in the life of any nation when there remain only two choices - submit or fight. That time has now come to South Africa. We shall not submit and we have no choice but to hit back by all means in our power in defence of our people, our future, and our freedom
Nelson Mandela
#45. Ever since the collapse of cap and trade legislation and the realization that President Obama is unlikely to ever utter the words 'climate change' in public again, much less use the bully pulpit to prepare the nation for the catastrophic risks of inaction, the movement has been in a funk.
Jeff Goodell
#46. The church is God's remnant in a country, able to change the life of the nation
Sunday Adelaja
#47. When the citizens of a nation will no longer volunteer to defend it, then it is probably not worth saving. No nation has the right to survive with conscript troops, and in the long run, no nation ever has.
Robert A. Heinlein
#48. 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
#49. Because there are little to no consequences for conducting cyberattacks, criminals and nation-states are becoming bolder in their threats and behavior. Russia, China, North Korea and Iran are increasingly hacking into U.S. companies and government networks for espionage purposes or financial gain.
Michael McCaul
#50. A great industrial nation may conquer the world in the span of a single life, but its Achilles' heel is time. Its children, what of them?
Charles Lindbergh
#51. Taking the obedience of the soldier for the consent of the nation--such a confidence is the destruction of thrones.
Victor Hugo
#52. In our post-9/11 world, our Nation's military deserves, at least the same access to institutions of higher education that any other major employer might enjoy.
Mike Rogers
#53. If there were a Nation of Stupid People, I would be their queen.
Leisa Rayven
#54. Its just either your way or my way.
There is no way that is universally right.
For British, they killed us to develop their own nation.
For Indians, we killed them so that we develop in a free nation.
Hanif Hassan Barbhuiya
#55. We lost our minds in the '80s and '90s; we really as a society just felt that everyone could only care about themselves. There was no responsibility to discuss what's going on in your town, your state, your nation. And it was a blast, it was really fun, but it doesn't work.
Adam McKay
#56. America My Country: last nation on earth to abolish human slavery; first of all nations to drop the nuclear bomb on our fellow human beings.
Edward Abbey
#57. Every time one of us starts talking about more effective immigration controls, somebody else throws up the Statue of Liberty, how we're a nation of immigrants and all of that. The debate takes on tinges of racism, emotion.
Alan K. Simpson
#58. Ticketmaster does not set prices. Live Nation does not set ticket prices. Artists set ticket prices.
Barry Diller
#59. How many serial killer stories does one nation need? Give me hero stories any day.
Jack Cavanaugh
#60. Follow the urge of the spirit of God into the next destination in our journey of faith as a Nation.
Sunday Adelaja
#61. All of Africa's resources should be declared resources of the state and managed by the nation. Our experience in Bolivia shows that when you take control of natural resources for the people of the town and village, major world change is possible.
Evo Morales
#62. I put all the blame legally and morally on the actions of the terrorist, but America's secular and anti-Christian environment left us open to our Lord's decision not to protect. When a nation deserts God and expels God from the culture ... the result is not good.
Jerry Falwell
#63. [Michael] Brown's mom, Lesley McSpadden, is the latest African American mother whose tear-streaked face forces the nation to remember the name of yet another unarmed black teenager gunned down under questionable circumstances.
Jonathan Capehart
#64. It is no wonder that the late Edward Said, in an article for the Nation which approved in the aftermath h of 9/11, derided the 'clash of civilisations' as a 'clash of ignorance' (The nation 22 October 2001)!
Giorgio Shani
#65. Children are like buds in a garden and should be carefully and lovingly nurtured, as they are the future of the nation and the citizens of tomorrow.
Jawaharlal Nehru
#67. No person among us desires any other reward for performing a brave and worthy action, but the consciousness of having served his nation.
Joseph Brant
#68. Let sovereignty be granted us over a portion of the earth's surface large enough to satisfy our rightful requirements as a nation. The rest we shall manage for ourselves.
Theodor Herzl
#69. And so, whether they came here on the Mayflower, on a slave ship, or on an airplane from Havana, we are all descendants of the men and women who built here the nation that saved the world.
Marco Rubio
#70. A man may devote himself to death and destruction to save a nation; but no nation will devote itself to death and destruction to save mankind.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
#71. This is the time to pull together as a Nation, as different people from all over the States with different perspectives and different social statuses and different income brackets, to unify into one and help those on the ground who need our help the most.
Jack Kingston
#72. The Federal Reserve is one of the most corrupt institutions the world has ever seen. There is not a man within the sound of my voice who does not know that this nation is run by the international bankers.
Louis Thomas McFadden
#73. If a state, or nation, has laws it will not enforce for political reasons, it mocks both the law and politics, to say nothing of the cultural order.
Cal Thomas
#74. Germany is a nation that created an enormous amount of suffering on the planet. The German people also themselves have suffered, because it always goes together.
Eckhart Tolle
#75. Is not that state a warning and a judgment for our heavy sins as a nation?
William E. Gladstone
#76. Movies both reflect and create social conditions, but their special charm is to offer fantasy clothes as virtual reality, a world where people consume without the tedium of labor. Characters float in a world where the bill never comes due ... and we wonder why we're a debtor nation!
Molly Haskell
#77. We are a nation of children letting horrible things happen, and flunking Calc.
Daniel Handler
#78. Right is what benefits a nation, even if it is against the will of the people.
M.F. Moonzajer
#79. A new study shows that American students are becoming less proficient in science, and if the trend continues, we will become a nation that's science and chemistry illiterate. And you thought a lot of meth labs are blowing up now?
Jay Leno
#80. America has seen enough of a handful of people growing rich at the cost of our nation descending into economic crisis.
Cory Booker
#81. A nation is the same people living in the same place.
James Joyce
#82. Parliament is more than procedure - it is the custodian of the nation's freedom.
John Diefenbaker
#83. President Kennedy was willing to go to war. He was not a coward. The man had been in war and so had Ken O'Donnell. He was ready to protect this nation, but he was not ready for a military solution just because it was being rammed down his throat.
Kevin Costner
#84. We are too near the scene of tragedy to realize that this canker or untouchability has traveled far beyond its prescribed limits and has sapped the very foundation of the whole nation.
Mahatma Gandhi
#85. Like the Governor-General, when asked what you enjoy most about the job my tendency is to say "today", because of the insights you get into our nation and because of the privileged contact you have with so many people.
Tony Abbott
#86. God has blessed me with the mission to place nonviolence before the nation for adoption.
Mahatma Gandhi
#87. I fully agree with General Washington, that we must protect this young nation from an insidious influence and impenetration. The menace, gentlemen, is the Jews.
Benjamin Franklin
#88. When I was growing up, there were just the three channels, so as a nation we all sat down to the same meal at the end of the day. Now there's been this explosion.
Rory Bremner
#89. At the age of 25 most people were finished. A whole god-damned nation of assholes driving automobiles, eating, having babies, doing everything in the worst way possible, like voting for the presidential candidate who reminded them most of themselves.
Charles Bukowski
#90. 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
#91. Science can be effective in the national welfare only as a member of a team, whether the conditions be peace or war. But without scientific progress no amount of achievement in other directions can insure our health, prosperity, and security as a nation in the modern world.
Vannevar Bush
#92. America is great not because it's a team. America is great because it is a nation whose founding documents elevated the rights of the individual.
John Podhoretz
#93. We are all Malaysians. This is the bond that unites us. Let us always remember that unity is our fundamental strength as a people and as a nation.
Tunku Abdul Rahman
#95. Herb is the healing of a nation, alcohol is the destruction.
Bob Marley
#96. The United States exists as a sovereign nation. 'America,' in contrast, exists as a myth of democracy and equal opportunity to live by, or as an ideal goal to reach.
Bharati Mukherjee
#97. He was like a nation in crisis, looking back, and back and back - its history might be ugly, but its past shone perfect.
Gish Jen
#98. Suppose a nation in some distant region should take the Bible for their only law book, and every member should regulate his conduct by the precepts there exhibited. What a Utopia! What a paradise this region would be.
John Adams
#99. At many points during our nation's history, there have been times - known in our history textbooks as 'panics' - when adverse conditions affecting the financial and economic sectors of the country have caused individuals to hoard more than they need.
Jo Bonner
#100. I never had the chance to decide; I was drafted to serve my nation. While I received a deferment to attend school, I ultimately served in the United States Army in the years following the Korean conflict.
Don Young
