Top 100 Nation That Quotes
#1. Armenia is dying, but it will survive. The little blood that is left is precious blood that will give birth to a heroic generation. A nation that does not want to die, does not die. April 9, 1916 Sorbonne
Anatole France
#2. I've got a fierce passion for politics but I can't stand the smarmy, hypocritical upper-middle-class dictator nation that prevails and has always prevailed in this country. I'm up for petrol bombers, mate, and fighting in the streets.
Pete Doherty
#4. A nation that forgets its past can function no better than an individual with amnesia.
David McCullough
#5. The sin against blood and race is the hereditary sin in this world and it brings disaster on every nation that commits it.
Adolf Hitler
#6. Blood is a cleansing and sanctifying thing, and the nation that regards it as the final horror has lost its manhood ... there are many things more horrible than bloodshed, and slavery is one of them!
Padraig Pearse
#7. A nation that can't control its energy sources can't control its future.
Barack Obama
#8. A nation that cannot control its borders is not a nation.
Ronald Reagan
#9. All the sparrows on the rooftops are crying about the fact that the most imperialist nation that is supporting the colonial regime in the colonies is the United States of America.
Nikita Khrushchev
#10. A nation that does not read much does not know much. And a nation that does not know much is more likely to make poor choices in the home, the marketplace, the jury box, and the voting booth. And those decisions ultimately affect the entire nation ... the literate and illiterate.
Jim Trelease
#11. This is a nation that professes to be a Christian nation," [Suelo] tells me, surveying his temporary kingdom. "And yet it's basically illegal to live according to the teachings of Jesus.
Mark Sundeen
#12. My books are elegiac in the sense that they're odes to a nation that even I sometimes think may not exist anymore except in my memory and my imagination.
Richard Russo
#13. The United States is a successful nation that is constantly susceptible to melancholy because things are not perfect.
George F. Will
#14. Whatever work you do, you think are you doing this for the good of the nation? That's the basic training. The other basic training is discipline. Your life should be disciplined. The other thing they say is what work you get, do it well.
Narendra Modi
#15. Gold and silver are but merchandise, as well as cloth or linen; and that nation that buys the least, and sells the most, must always have the most money.
Lord Chesterfield
#17. Together, we can make ourselves a nation that spends more on books than on bombs, more on hospitals than the terrible tools of war, more on decent houses than military aircraft.
Robert Kennedy
#18. Only those of us, I think, who were born under Queen Victoria know what it feels like to assume, without questioning, that England is permanently top nation, that foreigners do not matter, and that if the worst comes to the worst, Lord Salisbury will send a gunboat.
Ronald Knox
#19. A nation that honors God will always be honored by God. I've seen nations that have dishonored God: God has been taken out of schools, the government, the military; and when you take Him out of a nation, how can you expect God to protect this nation?
Nick Vujicic
#20. A nation that cannot preserve itself ought to die, and it will die - die in the grasp of the evils it is too feeble to overthrow
Morris Sheppard
#21. We spent a lot of time talking about Africa, as we should. Africa is a nation that suffers from incredible disease.
George W. Bush
#22. A nation that sends its women to fight its wars is not worth defending.
Pat Buchanan
#23. France wants Britain to remain in the E.U.; indeed, how can we imagine that friendly nation that is our ally and played a role on the international stage could be outside the E.U.?
Francois Hollande
#24. As a devastating series of attacks rock America's oldest ally, the nation that stood by us after 9/11 that gifted us the Statue of Liberty. France on November 13, 2015 fell victims to the worst terror attack in its history.
Peter King
#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. 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
#27. 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
#28. 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
#29. 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
#30. 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
#31. What Clinton did with Lewinsky was despicable but was no threat to the nation. That he lied about it repeatedly and to the public is a reason for us to cease to trust him and for him to resign.
Donella Meadows
#32. There are big surfing communities in every country with an ocean coast that I know in Central and South America. Same with Mexico, Bali, and nearly every island nation that gets waves in the Pacific and Indian Oceans. But that's a relatively recent development in most places.
William Finnegan
#33. But in a nation that had nearly spent its way into bankruptcy, sturdy locks and a perimeter alarm were the preferred form of security, because they didn't require salaries, health care, and pensions.
Dean Koontz
#34. America was founded on prayer. Therefore, the removal of prayer from its public life was a central part of its fall from God. A nation that turns away from prayer will ultimately find itself in desperate need of it.
Jonathan Cahn
#35. We are still the America that does the hard things, that does the great things. We're the nation that always dared to dream. We're the nation that dared to take risks.
Barack Obama
#37. A nation that fails to recognize and appreciate history is destined for decay.
Mark Mortensen
#38. We need to remain a nation that doesn't just welcome but that celebrates legal immigrants who come here seeking to pursue the American Dream.
Ted Cruz
#39. The attacks of 9/11 came out of Afghanistan. It was a failed state, a rogue nation. That's why al Qaeda was there in the first place.
Sebastian Junger
#40. It is one of the characteristics of a free and democratic nation that it have free and independent labor unions.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
#41. A nation that fails to honor its heroes, soon will have no heroes to honor ...
Winston Churchill
#42. And now the really difficult part: We have to rebuild Iraq into a strong and independent nation that will one day hate the United States.
David Letterman
#43. This is a nation that loves our freedom, loves our country.
George W. Bush
#44. Face it: a nation that maintains a 72% approval rating on George W. Bush is a nation with a very loose grip on reality.
Garrison Keillor
#45. We are limited only by our lack of creativity. Our buildings should symbolize the exuberance of a free nation that encourages individual effort and creativity.
Douglas Cardinal
#46. A nation established under God
A nation that will only win
if we stand together
April Nichole
#47. This is taking place inside Europe. This is taking place inside a once great nation. The nation that invented democracy. We are on the edge of total social breakdown. And frankly, as far as the euro is concerned and the austerity measures are concerned, the medicine is killing the patient.
Nigel Farage
#49. The nation that leads in renewable energy will be the nation that leads the world.
James Cameron
#50. It is clear that the nation that assumes stewardship of the Moon now will inherit stewardship of the galaxy in the coming millennium. I think the USA is ready for that challenge!
Wilson Greatbatch
#51. The historic glory of America lies in the fact that it is the one nation that was founded like a church. That is, it was founded on a faith that was not merely summed up after it had exited, but was defined before it existed.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
#52. It is perhaps too much the case with the multitude in every nation, that as they know little beyond themselves, and their own affairs, so out of this narrow sphere of knowledge, they think nothing worth knowing.
James Harris
#53. Presidential campaign observer Teddy White on the second Kennedy-Nixon debate in which the candidates spoke from separate television studios: It was as if, separated by comments from his adversary, Richard Nixon was more at ease and could speak directly to the nation that lay between them.
David Pietrusza
#54. A nation that spends billions to fix international problems will not have much left over for the victims of tornadoes in Oklahoma.
Deacon Jones
#55. When I'm gonna sing for people I try to meditate upon his majesty and meditate on what is right and then transmit it to the nation. That is how Rastafari really influence.
Sizzla
#56. At Guantanamo Bay, we could create a West Berlin, a free small city within the Communist nation that could trade freely with the U.S. and elect its own officials.
Elliott Abrams
#58. The essential thing is the formation of the political will of the nation: that is the starting point for political action.
Adolf Hitler
#59. Cannot the nation that has absorbed ten million foreigners into its political life without catastrophe absorb ten million Negro Americans into that same political life at less cost than their unjust and illegal exclusion will involve?
W.E.B. Du Bois
#60. Poor is the nation that has no heroes, but poorer still is the nation that having heroes, fails to remember and honor them.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
#61. This is a nation that has lost the ability to be self-critical, and that makes a lie out of the freedoms.
Joni Mitchell
#62. Something's very wrong with a nation that would rather spend money on war than take care of its children.
Robert Kiyosaki
#63. America is a nation that conceives many odd inventions for getting somewhere but it can think of nothing to do once it gets there.
Will Rogers
#64. Any nation that allows the government to dominate its monetary and economic policies will ultimately suffer grave consequences.
James Cook
#65. A nation that turns it back on Christ and God's words of truth will inevitably regret it.
Monica Johnson
#66. We are a nation that is unenlightened because of religion. I do believe that. I think religion stops people from thinking. I think it justified crazies.
Bill Maher
#67. 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
#68. It is in seeing ourselves whole that we can begin to see ways of working out our differences, of understanding our similarities and of finally forming the cohesive nation that can one day experience the 'domestic tranquility' so hoped for by the framers of the Constitution.
Robert C. Maynard
#69. 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
#70. A nation that hates politics will not long survive as a democracy.
E. J. Dionne
#71. A nation that knows how to work will never suffer.
Henry Ford
#72. The young people of India will build a strong and powerful nation, a nation that is politically mature and economically strong, a nation whose people enjoy both a high quality of life as well as justice.
Pranab Mukherjee
#73. Any nation that teaches and makes it's people look for miracles is making it's people shallow.
Sunday Adelaja
#74. Nobody can easily bring together a nation that has 265 kinds of cheese' (Charles de Gaulle, 1961 speech)
Mark Kurlansky
#75. Right afterward I read Fast Food Nation. That book changed my life: It made me a vegetarian.
Amber Tamblyn
#76. A nation that is Christian at its heart doesn't need to write it into law.
Ralph Peters
#77. Sport and health are so important to our nation that they deserve to be right at the front of people's minds.
Daley Thompson
#78. In Tanzania, it was more than one hundred tribal units which lost their freedom; it was one nation that regained it.
Julius Nyerere
#79. Any nation that can survive what we have lately in the way of government, is on the high road to permanent glory.
Molly Ivins
#80. The events of that day would forever be remembered, and they stood together as a united Marridon, a nation that would lead in innovation and liberality, taking up the thread that had been left for them, the essence of selfless love woven along a national loom.
Michelle Franklin
#81. A nation that combines the America predilection towards violence, the American stockpile of weapons and the American lack of empthy for the earth's humiliated peoples is a dangerous nation.
Vincent Harding
#82. When you want a nation, that's called nationalism ... Black nationalism. A revolutionary is a Black nationalist. He wants a nation.
Malcolm X
#83. If marriage really is a sacred institution, then why is the government controlling it, especially in a nation that affirms separation of church and state?
Tony Campolo
#84. At the U.N., any nation that fights back is censored as an "aggressor."
Sam Levenson
#85. And I believe the nation that invented the automobile cannot walk away from it.
Barack Obama
#86. A nation that is unfit to fight cannot, from experience, prove the virtue of not fighting.
Mahatma Gandhi
#87. You think history is going to remember the United States as a great democracy? No, they're going to think of us as a nation that became addicted to war. They'll call us warlords.
Michael Moore
#88. Any nation that wishes to enjoy the fruits of development and civilization, must follow the golden rules of this scripture as a national policy and culture.
Sunday Adelaja
#89. We are a nation that shouts at a microwave oven to hurry up.
Joan Ryan
#90. A nation that expects the government to prevent churches from burning, to control the price of bread or gasoline, to secure every job, and to find some villain for every dramatic accident risks an even larger loss of life and liberty.
William A. Niskanen
#91. Countries have largely been left alone to handle or ignore their educational problems as they see fit. In part, this was because we assumed that the contexts and challenges were so different from nation to nation that education could not be tackled at the international level.
Wendy Kopp
#92. One of the enduring mysteries of America's occupation of Iraq is why a nation that so little relishes peacekeeping nonetheless refuses to turn the job over to the United Nations.
Timothy Noah
#93. America's largest trade deficit is with China, a nation that enjoys Permanent Normal Trade Relations with the U.S. and ties its currency to the dollar to make it a more competitive trading partner.
Jo Ann Emerson
#94. Nothing becomes reality in the political life of a nation that was not present in its literature as spirit.
Hugo Von Hofmannsthal
#95. A nation that has no music and no fairytales is a tragedy.
Ai Weiwei
#96. The right of dissent, or, if you prefer, the right to be wrong, is surely fundamental to the existence of a democratic society. That's the right that went first in every nation that stumbled down the trail toward totalitarianism.
Edward R. Murrow
#97. In Russia, as I sat there day after day wearing headphones, listening to the interpreter struggle to make our words relevant, I wondered if we could establish meaningful rapport with a nation that had never seen raisins dance in dark glasses on TV ... never had a garage sale.
Erma Bombeck
#98. A nation that will not enforce its laws has no claim to the respect and allegiance of its people.
Ambrose Bierce
#99. Sometimes you will hear leaders say, "I'm the only person who can hold this nation together." If that's true then that leader has truly failed to build their nation.' That
Tim Marshall
#100. It's one of the nice things about this nation that when the Constitution is violated, if it affects you, you can bring a suit.
Michael Newdow
