Nation Quotes - page 19

Choosing education is a very good decision, not only good for the student, but also for our country. The United States was the first nation in history to recognize that public education for every citizen, regardless of class or station, was vital to its future... (Mitt Romney)
We reserve our deepest respect and admiration for those who volunteer for service and give their lives to help keep our nation secure. View quote
Mitt Romney
I am convinced that unless America changes course, we will become the France of the 21st Century - still a great nation, but no longer the leader of the world. View quote
Mitt Romney
Earth's biggest country 's gut her soul, An' risen up earth's greatest nation. View quote
James Russell Lowell
No nation can be really great that is held together by Gatling guns, and no true loyalty can be induced and kept through fear. View quote
Clarence Darrow
The nation that would to-day disarm its soldiers and turn its people to the paths of peace would accomplish more to its building up than by all the war taxes wrong from its hostile and unwilling serfs. View quote
Clarence Darrow
Your system was liable to periodical convulsions...business crises at intervals of five to ten years, which wrecked the industries of the nation. View quote
Edward Bellamy
My creed is that public service must be more than doing a job efficiently and honestly. It must be a complete dedication to the people and to the nation with full recognition that every human being is entitled to courtesy and consideration, that constructive criticism is not only to be expected but sought, that smears are not only to be expected but fought, that honor is to be earned, not bought. View quote
Margaret Chase Smith
We are the first nation to starve to death in a storehouse that's overfilled with everything we want. View quote
Will Rogers
On account of being a democracy and run by the people, we are the only nation in the world that has to keep a government four years, no matter what it does. View quote
Will Rogers
I originated a remark many years ago that I think has been copied more than any little thing that I've every said, and I used it in the FOLLIES of 1922. I said America has a unique record. We never lost a war and we never won a conference in our lives. I believe that we could without any degree of egotism, single-handed lick any nation in the world. But we can't confer with Costa Rica and come home with our shirts on. (Will Rogers)
As far as we can look back into history, the downfall of any nation can be traced from the moment that nation became timid about spending its best blood. View quote
Frederick Russell Burnham
It isn't pleasant to surrender to the hegemony of a nation which is still wild and primitive, and to concede the absolute superiority of its customs and institutions, science and technology, literature and art. Must one sacrifice so much in the name of the unity of mankind? View quote
Czesław Miłosz
The death of a man is like the fall of a mighty nation That had valiant armies, captains, and prophets, And wealthy ports and ships all over the seas. View quote
Czesław Miłosz
This book is dedicated to the people of America--strong, outspoken, intense in their convictions, sometimes wrong-headed but always generous and brave, with a passion for justice no nation has ever matched. View quote
Paul Johnson
As a doctor I will make it my mission to heal the nation, reverse the course of Obamacare and repeal every last bit of it. View quote
Rand Paul
Ronald Reagan makes me proud to be an American. His intelligence, capability, and Christian brotherhood are so inspiring and his way of leadership is just superb. I consider myself lucky to have been his leading lady in The Bad Man and a short subject reel and as a nation all together we are beyond fortunate to have the leadership of such fine people as the Reagan's. View quote
Laraine Day
To survive in peace and harmony, united and strong, we must have one people, one nation, one flag. View quote
Pauline Hanson
The certain way to victory...lies in making everything on Imperial soil contribute to the war effort...combining the total material and spiritual strength of the nation... View quote
Yoshijirō Umezu
The most unresolved problem of the day is precisely the problem that concerned the founders of this nation: how to limit the scope and power of government. Tyranny, restrictions on human freedom, come primarily from governmental restrictions that we ourselves have set up. View quote
Milton Friedman
Let us disperse from our aloofness and serve the weak who made us strong, and cleanse the country in which we live. Let us teach this miserable nation to smile and rejoice with heaven's bounty and glory of life and freedom. (Kahlil Gibran)
Now they [the Powers] have started the aggression, and the extinction of our nation is imminent. If we just fold our arms and yield to them, I would have no face to see our ancestors after death. If we must perish, why not fight to the death? View quote
Empress Dowager Cixi
I have to laugh when the English claim they are such a wonderful nation. Everyone knows that Englishmen are really Germans, that the English kings were German, and that in Russia the emperors were either of German origin or received their education in Germany. View quote
Hermann Göring
A nation never falls but by suicide. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
We will walk on our own feet; we will work with our own hands; we will speak our own minds...A nation of men will for the first time exist, because each believes himself inspired by the Divine Soul which also inspires all men. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson