Quotes About A Fallen Nation

#1. More than any single issue, Gil's essential topic was America, how the nation had fallen away from its moral precepts and into ruin, a condition of spiritual malaise that would eventually deliver us the bigotry and psychotic greed of the Bush Era.

Steve Almond

#2. Our nation honors its unbroken line of fallen heroes and I see many of them in the audience here today.

Barack Obama

#3. A true Brahmachari will not even dream of satisfying the fleshly appetite

Mahatma Gandhi

#4. There were certain things that had to be done, and if done at all, done handsomely and thoroughly; and one of these, in the old New York code, was the tribal rally around a kinswoman about to be eliminated from the tribe.

Edith Wharton

#5. Our film industry, must cease portraying us as a nation of decayed values, fallen moralities and juju-obsessed people.

Sunday Adelaja

#6. You are the person who has to decide. Whether you'll do it or toss it aside; You are the person who makes up your mind. Whether you'll lead or will linger behind. Whether you'll try for the goal that's afar. Or just be contented to stay where you are.

Edgar Guest

#7. When I was a kid, if a guy got killed in a western movie I always wondered who got his horse.

George Carlin

#8. The fall of the nation, there is no;
Faithfulness,
Kindness and
Knowledge of God in your sacred land.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#9. These fallen heroes represent the character of a nation who has a long history of patriotism and honor - and a nation who has fought many battles to keep our country free from threats of terror.

Michael N. Castle

#10. Our nation owes a debt to its fallen heroes that we can never fully repay, but we can honor their sacrifice.

Barack Obama

#11. The call of repentance is for the righteous and the unrighteous, the godly and the ungodly alike. If the righteous had been the lights they were called to be, the nation would never have fallen as it did.

Jonathan Cahn

#12. There is a big difference between what I do onstage and what I do in my private life. I don't put my living room on magazine pages.

Annie Lennox

#13. In a 24/7 news cycle, with all the shrieking, howling voices and rapid-response and instant spinning and Soviet-style disinformation-mongering, a good idea has a shelf life of about, um, six seconds.

Christopher Buckley

#14. The world is an inferno. It will burn until every nation has fallen, until all who oppose us are dead, until people see the true light.

Alexander Gordon Smith

#15. I started from zero and went back to the basics in gymnastics.

Shawn Johnson

#16. The idea that the Christian god is just, is directly contradicted by the idea that the Christian god is merciful. Perfect justice and any mercy are necessarily directly in contradiction, because mercy is a suspension of justice.

Matt Dillahunty

#17. On this Memorial Day, as our nation honors its unbroken line of fallen heroes
and I see many of them in the audience here today
our sense of patriotism is particularly strong.

Barack Obama

#18. If the tears I've shed for my fallen comrades and this nation were blood I'd be dead ...
Stanley Victor Paskavich
Disabled Gulf War Veteran

Stanley Victor Paskavich

#19. As individuals and as a nation, we now suffer from social narcissism. The beloved Echo of our ancestors, the virgin America, has been abandoned. We have fallen in love with our own image, with images of our making, which turn out to be images of ourselves.

Daniel J. Boorstin

#20. This time we'll be fighting for the nation. The company commander says that it's better to be the ghost of a fallen soldier than a nationless slave. For the sake of our fellow countrymen, our families and our children, we have to resist to the very end ... ("Vague Expectations")

Xiao Hong

#21. it's at least possible that God is wise enough to foresee that we need some pain for reasons which we may not understand but which he foresees as being necessary to some eventual good. Therefore, he's not being evil by allowing that pain to exist.

Lee Strobel

#22. Most Americans have little idea of how far our nation's worldwide standing had fallen by the end of the Bush administration; no matter how bad you thought it had gotten, it was worse.

Thomas P.M. Barnett

#23. If you don't care about the main character in a novel, then you probably won't care about the story either.

Giuseppe Bianco