Nation Quotes

The greatness of a nation can be judged by the way its animals are treated. (Mahatma Gandhi)
The life of the nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous. View quote
Frederick Douglass
How can anyone govern a nation that has 246 different kinds of cheese. View quote
Charles de Gaulle
Every nation gets the government it deserves. View quote
Joseph de Maistre
A leader who doesn't hesitate before he sends his nation into battle is not fit to be a leader. View quote
Golda Meir
A good newspaper, I suppose, is a nation talking to itself. View quote
Arthur Miller
A nation reveals itself not only by the men it produces but also by the men it honors, the men it remembers. View quote
John F. Kennedy
You can tell the ideals of a nation by its advertisements. View quote
Norman Douglas
The United States is a nation of laws: badly written and randomly enforced. View quote
Frank Zappa
A nation which can prefer disgrace to danger is prepared for a master, and deserves one. View quote
Alexander Hamilton
A marriage without conflicts is almost as inconceivable as a nation without crises. (André Maurois)
Each nation feels superior to other nations. That breeds patriotism - and wars. View quote
Dale Carnegie
A nation is a society united by a delusion about its ancestry and by common hatred of its neighbours. View quote
William Ralph Inge
Human kindness has never weakened the stamina or softened the fiber of a free people. A nation does not have to be cruel to be tough. View quote
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty. View quote
John F. Kennedy
The future of a nation lies in the hands of mothers. View quote
Honoré de Balzac
We are the most powerful nation on earth. No external power, no terrorist organization, can defeat us. But we can defeat ourselves by getting caught in a quagmire. View quote
George Soros
America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to degeneration without the usual interval of civilization. View quote
Georges Clemenceau
No nation is fit to sit in judgment upon any other nation. View quote
Woodrow Wilson
I would rather belong to a poor nation that was free than to a rich nation that had ceased to be in love with liberty. View quote
Woodrow Wilson
No one can terrorize a whole nation, unless we are all his accomplices. (Edward R. Murrow)
It will, I believe, be everywhere found, that as the clergy are, or are not what they ought to be, so are the rest of the nation. View quote
Jane Austen
We are at war, and our security as a nation depends on winning that war. View quote
Condoleezza Rice
In any country there must be people who have to die. They are the sacrifices any nation has to make to achieve law and order. View quote
Idi Amin
Hope is the bedrock of this nation. The belief that our destiny will not be written for us, but by us, by all those men and women who are not content to settle for the world as it is, who have the courage to remake the world as it should be. View quote
Barack Obama