One Nation Quotes

#1. We do not deny any nation's legitimate interest in security. But protecting the security of one nation by robbing another of its national independence and national traditions is not legitimate. In the long run, it is not even secure.

Ronald Reagan

#2. Who would benefit from a war of civilizations between the West and Islam? Answer: one nation, one leader, one party. Israel, Sharon, Likud.

Pat Buchanan

#3. That's why I believe that we must never fail to affirm that we are indeed one nation under God.

Lee Greenwood

#4. I don't know that atheists should be considered citizens, nor should they be considered patriots. This is one nation under God.

George H. W. Bush

#5. A passionate attachment of one nation for another produces a variety of evils

George Washington

#6. When we say, 'One nation under God, with liberty and justice for all', we are talking about all people. We either ought to believe it or quit saying it .

Hubert H. Humphrey

#7. There are two Americas - separate, unequal, and no longer even acknowledging each other except on the barest cultural terms. In the one nation, new millionaires are minted every day. In the other, human beings no longer necessary to our economy, to our society, are being devalued and destroyed.

David Simon

#8. We need to assert our allegiance to the human race, and not to any one nation.

Howard Zinn

#9. I think America is in trouble, but it's not beyond repair. But it's going to take leadership who sees the greatness of this country and who believes that, once again, we can be one nation under God.

Mike Huckabee

#10. If we ever forget that we are One Nation Under God, then we will be a nation gone under.

Ronald Reagan

#11. If there's only one nation in the sky, shouldn't all passports be valid for it?

Yann Martel

#12. We rise and fall as one people, one nation.

Barack Obama

#13. There is but one nation on the globe from which we have anything serious to apprehend, but that is the most powerful that now exists or ever did exist. I refer to Great Britain.

John C. Calhoun

#14. In short, on the basis of horse sense and the best scientific information, there was nothing good to be said for the exploration of space. The time was long past when one nation could seem more glorious than another by hurling some heavy object into nothingness.

Kurt Vonnegut

#15. Americans long to be united. After 9/11, we all just wanted to be one nation. Not a single American on September the 12, 2001, cared who won the next presidential election.

William J. Clinton

#16. The great works belong to no one nation, no one cultural tradition even. They are universal.

George Brandis

#17. The only time in the history of the world that we have had any extended periods of peace is when there has been a balance of power. It is when one nation becomes infinitely more powerful in relation to its potential competitors that the danger of war arises.

Richard M. Nixon

#18. It perhaps might be said
if any one dared
that the most worthless literature of the world has been that which has been written by the men of one nation concerning the men of another.

Stephen Crane

#19. The ending of partition was inevitable because Ireland was one nation by history and tradition , by facts of race, geography, and economy

Seamus Costello

#20. It is time to leave behind the divisive battles of the past. It is time to move forward as one nation.

Barack Obama

#21. Regardless of what happens, I still honor my Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, because at the end of the day, that's what's important, win or lose ... We need to get back to one nation under God, and be role models for kids,

Tim Tebow

#22. The sciences of only one nation, the Greeks, have come down to us, because they were translated through Al-Ma'mun's efforts. He was successful in this direction because he had many translators at his disposal and spent much money in this connection.

Ibn Khaldun

#23. We all belong to one nation and that notion for nation is the land of the Lords.

Santosh Kalwar

#24. When one nation is at war with another nation, the political machine does everything it can to vilify the people of the other nation, so it makes it easier to kill them. Which is understandable and it's happened this way throughout history.

Alexander Siddig

#25. As a people of faith, we know that prayer is a powerful instrument. And as one Nation under God, we know that many times our most powerful tool is prayer.

Nick Rahall

#26. In Washington, the translation of E Pluribus Unum has been lost. The belief that we are one nation - united in purpose - caring about and for one another is no longer the practice.

Madeleine M. Kunin

#27. Life is too short to make just one decision, music is too loud for just one station, love is too big for just one nation, and God is too big for just one religion!

Michael Franti

#28. Nations without a past are contradictions in terms. What makes a nation is the past, what justifies one nation against others is the past, and historians are the people who produce it.

Eric Hobsbawm

#29. We are truly one nation, under God, indivisible and that we must remain so in the face of any threat to ensure our country remains strong, united and free.

Michael Enzi

#30. I want a Britain that is one nation, with shared values and purpose, where merit comes before privilege, run for the many not the few, strong and sure of itself at home and abroad.

Tony Blair

#31. The epic story of the West is the development in the 19th century of a mass prosperity the world had never seen and its near-disappearance in one nation after another in the 20th.

Edmund Phelps

#32. One nation is to another what one individual is to another; with this melancholy distinction perhaps, that the former with fewer of the benevolent emotions than the latter, are under fewer restraints also from taking undue advantage of the indiscretions of each other.

James Madison

#33. But when we place God on our side of things, that we are now ridding the world of evil - that's very dangerous, that one nation has this role to rid the world of evil. What about the evil we have committed, that we are complicit in?

Jim Wallis

#34. Writers may be classified as meteors, planets, and fixed stars. They belong not to one system, one nation only, but to the universe. And just because they are so very far away, it is usually many years before their light is visible to the inhabitants of this earth.

Arthur Schopenhauer

#35. It seems to me the Washington Monument is a symbol of America's power. It has been the symbol of our great nation. We look at the symbol and we say 'this is one nation under God.'

Pat Robertson

#36. Parliament is a deliberate assembly of one nation, with one interest, that of the whole; where, not local purpose, not local prejudices ought to guide but the general good, resulting from the general reason of the whole.

Edmund Burke

#37. Imperialism is an institution under which one nation asserts the right to seize the land or at least to control the government or resources of another people.

John T. Flynn

#38. There's a principle here, and I'm hoping the court will uphold this principle so that we can finally go back and have every American want to stand up, face the flag, place their hand over their heart and pledge to one nation, indivisible, not divided by religion, with liberty and justice for all.

Michael Newdow

#39. Dispersed as the Jews are, they still form one nation, foreign to the land they live in.

Daniel J. Boorstin

#40. As soon as one nation claims the right to take preventive action, other countries will naturally do the same. If we go down that road, where are we going?

Jacques Chirac

#41. It's just not working. One nation trying to destroy another, one race trying to destroy another, one religion trying to destroy another - It's the same old story over and over again.

Frederick Lenz

#42. I am opposed to globalism, I am opposed to colonialism, I am opposed to any sort of complusion of one nation over another. ( ... ) I also deeply believe in human rights.

David Duke

#43. Football is the only sport where you put people together, it doesn't matter if you are rich, or poor, or black, or white. It is one nation. This is the beauty of football.

Pele

#44. I'm a one-nation Tory.

Boris Johnson

#45. One nation is weakened by a victory, another finds new forces in defeat

Antoine De Saint-Exupery

#46. Exploitation and domination of one nation over another can have no place in a world striving to put an end to all war.

Mahatma Gandhi

#47. A strong team is a group of people that feel like one nation

Sunday Adelaja

#48. No one nation can or should try to dominate another nation.

Barack Obama

#49. If we ever forget that we're one nation under God, then we will be one nation gone under.

Ronald Reagan

#50. Those who dare to interpret God's will must never claim Him as an asset for one nation or group rather than another.

Robert Runcie

#51. And it's a question of who the parliamentary party thinks is the right person to lead - not just in terms of the negotiations but also the wider 'one nation' agenda that we set out in our manifesto last year and that we were elected on.

Nicky Morgan

#52. We must recognize that the suffering of one person or one nation is the suffering of humanity.

Dalai Lama XIV

#53. Ultimately, there is no dividing line between Main Street and Wall Street. We will rise or we will fall together as one nation.

Barack Obama

#54. If you're part of the Network Generation, you don't have to belong just to one nation. Dual identities come easily to these dual screeners. They fear a separate Scotland would be a narrowing, not a broadening, experience.

Douglas Alexander

#55. The real lesson of 9/11 that I think we have still to learn is that this is a world of interdependence, in which all of the challenges of environment and climate change, of jobs, of disease, of war and terrorism, are cross-border problems that cannot be met one nation at a time.

Benjamin Barber

#56. To make us one nation as to foreign concerns, and keep us distinct in Domestic ones gives the outline of the proper division of powers between the general [national] and particular [state] governments.

Thomas Jefferson

#57. The structure of world peace cannot be the work of one man or one party or one nation. It must be a peace which rests on the cooperative effort of the whole world.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

#58. It is clear that the nations of the world now can only rise and fall together. It is not a question of one nation winning at the expense of another. We must all help one another or all perish together.

Carl Sagan

#59. If we are to be one Nation in any respect, it clearly ought to be in respect to other Nations.

James Madison

#60. The bourgeoisie incites the workers of one nation against those of another in the endeavor to keep them disunited.

Vladimir Lenin

#61. America is not divided, our enemies they will be stopped. Cause we the people are united, and still one nation under God.

Randy Travis

#62. To survive in peace and harmony, united and strong, we must have one people, one nation, one flag.

Pauline Hanson

#63. If every component part of the nation claims the right of self-determination for itself, there is no one nation and there is no independence.

Mahatma Gandhi

#64. We will remember that we are not as divided as our politics suggests; that we are one people; we are one nation and together, we will begin the next great chapter in the American story with three words that will ring from coast to coast, from sea to shining sea:- Yes. We. Can.

Barack Obama

#65. 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

#66. How many serial killer stories does one nation need? Give me hero stories any day.

Jack Cavanaugh

#67. And I will do everything that I can as long as I am President of the United States to remind the American people that we are one nation under God, and we may call that God different names but we remain one nation.

Barack Obama

#68. I believe that our Great Maker is preparing the world, in His own good time, to become one nation, speaking one language, and when armies and navies will be no longer required.

Ulysses S. Grant

#69. We honor the heritage of all who come here, no matter where they come from, because we trust in our country's genius for making us all Americans - one nation under God.

George W. Bush

#70. Our people, our history, our struggle is more than a war, more than a fall, more than a favorite dish, more than one monolithic political opinion, more than one dialect, one gender, one nation, one flag. Respect and love to the diaspora - as imperfect as I am, I am one of you and I am yours.

Bao Phi

#71. Smoke the pipe of peace, bury the tomahawk, and become one nation.

Zebulon Pike

#72. The interests of the States ... ought to be made joint in every possible instance in order to cultivate the idea of our being one nation, and to multiply the instances in which the people shall look up to Congress as their head.

Thomas Jefferson

#73. You know, we are one nation under a god. Yes, you were right. An angry, crack slinging god who decorates with bullets and spent condoms.

Henry Rollins

#74. 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

#75. America, 5 years after this brutal attack, is testament that a Nation conceived in liberty and equality will endure. It is a triumph of millions of Americans but it is also the triumph of an idea larger than any one person, larger than any one nation.

Nick Rahall

#76. We must openly accept all ideologies and systems as a means of solving humanity's problems. One country, one nation, one ideology, one system is not sufficient.

Dalai Lama

#77. The middle classes shouldn't be getting tax cuts, while those in tough, poorly paid jobs, who are already running out of money at the start of the month, are getting their benefits cut. That's not one-nation conservatism; it's two nations conservatism.

Tim Montgomerie

#78. America is destined to be peopled by one nation, speaking one language, professing one general system of religious and political principles, and accustomed to one general tenor of social usages and customs.

John Adams

#79. If I were trapped in one city and had to eat one nation's cuisine for the rest of my life, I would not mind eating Japanese. I adore Japanese food. I love it.

Anthony Bourdain

#80. But this is the great danger America faces. That we will cease to be one nation and become instead a collection of interest groups: city against suburb, region against region, individual against individual. Each seeking to satisfy private wants.

Barbara Jordan

#81. First and foremost is what this country was based on: one nation under God.

Tim Tebow

#82. USA TODAY hopes to serve as a forum for better understanding and unity to help make the USA truly one nation.

Al Neuharth

#83. The slums of one nation are the suburbs of another.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#84. Citizenship rights is about making all Iranians feel they are part of one nation, one identity, under one umbrella they can feel proud of.

Hassan Rouhani

#85. In our pledge every day, we pledge one Nation under God with liberty and justice for all.

Patrick J. Kennedy

#86. Rather than double-down on the top-down economics that let a fortunate few play by their own rules, let's embrace an economic patriotism that says we rise or fall together, as one nation, and as one people.

Barack Obama

#87. The people of one nation alone cannot save their own children; each holds the responsibility for the others' children.

Margaret Mead

#88. We can only converse if we can speak the same language. So if we are going to build One Nation, we need to start with everyone in Britain knowing how to speak English.

Ed Miliband

#89. I never was an Abolitionest, not even what could be called anti slavery, but I try to judge farely and honestly and it become patent to my mind early in the rebellion that the North and South could never live at peace with each other except as one nation, and that without Slavery.

Ulysses S. Grant

#90. The spread of personal ownership is in harmony with the deepest instincts of the British people. Few changes have done more to create one nation.

Nigel Lawson

#91. Well, there are some who claim I'm more of one nation than another, but that's not true, Eddie. I'm of all nations, I play no favorites.

Harry Segall

#92. We have to consider who is going to be the best prime minister to take on a "one nation" agenda.

Damian Green

#93. Overcoming the problems we face today and planting the seed of peace is not a task for any one nation, people, or religion. This will be possible only when spiritually awakened people from every corner of the world share the power of a single vision and create an alliance of Earth-Humans.

Ilchi Lee

#94. Convergence of technology is important. One people, one mission, one nation, this will be possible then.

Narendra Modi

#95. The Church is larger than any one nation or any one political scene.

Brother Andrew

#96. We stand strong together - as Americans - many cultures, races and faiths, but one nation under God.

Bob Taft

#97. I still think that if the human race, or even one nation, could only get right about its God the rest would follow.

Laurence Housman

#98. In Tanzania, it was more than one hundred tribal units which lost their freedom; it was one nation that regained it.

Julius Nyerere

#99. In 1688 England contracted to the Netherlands the highest debt that one nation can owe to another. Herself not knowing how to recover her liberties, they were restored by men of the United Provinces.

George Bancroft

#100. We are an American family and we rise and fall together as one nation.

Barack Obama