Nation Quotes - page 13

To avoid large and unsustainable budget deficits, the nation will ultimately have to choose among higher taxes, modifications to entitlement programs such as Social Security and Medicare, less spending on everything else from education to defense, or some combination of the above. (Ben Bernanke)
Listen! There was never an artistic period. There was never an art-loving nation. View quote
James McNeill Whistler
I think President Obama is the most radical president this nation's ever seen. And in particular, I think he is a true believer in government control of the economy and of our everyday lives. In my judgment, we are facing what I consider to be the epic battle of our generation, quite literally the battle over whether we remain a free market nation. View quote
Ted Cruz
By this you may see who are the rude and barbarous Indians: For verily there is no savage nation under the cope of Heaven, that is more absurdly barbarous than the Christian World. They that go naked and drink water and live upon roots are like Adam, or Angels in comparison of us. View quote
Thomas Traherne
The customs of that most criminal nation have gained such strength that they have now been received in all lands. The conquered have given laws to the conquerors. View quote
Seneca
Why can't a man stand alone? Must he be burdened by all that he's taught to consider his own? His skin and his station, his kin and his crown, his flag and his nation They just weigh him down. View quote
Elvis Costello
Families is where our nation finds hope, where wings take dream. View quote
George W. Bush
What you do is as important as anything government does. I ask you to seek a common good beyond your comfort; to defend needed reforms against easy attacks; to serve your nation, beginning with your neighbor. I ask you to be citizens: citizens, not spectators; citizens, not subjects; responsible citizens, building communities of service and a nation of character. View quote
George W. Bush
When a nation forgets her skill in war, when her religion becomes a mockery, when the whole nation becomes a nation of money-grabbers, then the wild tribes, the barbarians drive in... Who will our invaders be? From whence will they come? View quote
Robert E. Howard
The art of music above all the other arts is the expression of the soul of a nation. View quote
Ralph Vaughan Williams
Much like the French (or like ourselves, their apes),Who with strange habit do disguise their shapes;Who loving novels, full of affectation,Receive the manners of each other nation. (Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas)
The invasion of Iraq will surely go down in history as one of the most cowardly wars ever fought. It was a war in which a band of rich nations, armed with enough nuclear weapons to destroy the world several times over, rounded on a poor nation, falsely accused it of having nuclear weapons, used the United Nations to force it to disarm, then invaded it, occupied it, and are now in the process of selling it. View quote
Arundhati Roy
It has become clear that America's civilian institutions of diplomacy and development have been chronically undermanned and underfunded for far too long – relative to what we spend on the military, and more important, relative to the responsibilities and challenges our nation has around the world. View quote
Robert Gates
Under a socialist system every nation will be the supreme arbiter of its own destinies, national and international; will be forced into no alliance against its will, but will have its independence guaranteed and its freedom respected by the enlightened self-interest of the socialist democracy of the world. View quote
James Connolly
Sherry...a silly, sickly compound, the use of which will transform a nation, however bold and warlike by nature, into a race of sketchers, scribblers, and punsters, in fact into what Englishmen are at the present day. View quote
George Borrow
If a nation does not want a monarchy, change the nation's mind. If a nation does not need a monarchy, change the nation's needs. View quote
Jan Smuts
The relation between the white and colored people of this country is the great, paramount, imperative, and all-commanding question for this age and nation to solve. View quote
Frederick Douglass
A battle lost or won is easily described, understood, and appreciated, but the moral growth of a great nation requires reflection, as well as observation, to appreciate it. View quote
Frederick Douglass
Vainly you talk about voting it down. When you have cast your millions of ballots, you have not reached the evil. It has fastened its root deep into the heart of the nation, and nothing but God's truth and love can cleanse the land. We must change the moral sentiment. View quote
Frederick Douglass
Tribe follows tribe, and nation follows nation, like the waves of the sea. It is the order of nature, and regret is useless. View quote
Chief Seattle
A new poll shows that Americans now believe that Bill Clinton is more honest than President Bush. [...] At least when Clinton screwed the nation, he did it one person at a time. (Jay Leno)
Our government has a responsibility to defend our borders, but we must do so in a way that makes us safer and upholds all that is decent and exceptional about our nation. View quote
Lindsey Graham
The sooner we get started with alternative energy sources and recognize that fossil fuels makes us less secure as a nation, and more dangerous as a planet, the better off we'll be. View quote
Lindsey Graham
It's our right, as a sovereign nation to chose immigrants that we think are the likeliest to thrive and flourish and love us. View quote
Donald Trump
America is a nation of believers, dreamers, and strivers that is being led by a group of censors, critics, and cynics. View quote
Donald Trump