Nation Quotes - page 4

Nothing is more misleading to the youth of a nation than to state the outcome immediately after the beginning as if nothing could have taken place in between. (Gustav Stresemann)
It will be sufficient to point to the enormous burdens which armaments place on the economic, social, and intellectual resources of a nation, as well as on its budget and taxes. View quote
Ludwig Quidde
We need the nation of equal citizenship. We need a nation that fights corruption, a nation, a state where law rules, a nation where those who abuse their authority are questioned. We want to retrieve our nation, and we want to become citizens in a new world. View quote
Tawakkol Karman
No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare. View quote
James Madison
The chains of military despotism, once fastened upon a nation, ages might pass away before they could be shaken off. View quote
William Henry Harrison
Americans have been taught that their nation is civilized and humane. But, too often, U. S. actions have been uncivilized and inhumane. View quote
Howard Zinn
When jazz is played in another nation, it is called American. When it is played in another country, it sounds false. Jazz is the result of the energy stored up in America. View quote
George Gershwin
Every day, the people I meet inspire me, every day, they make me proud, every day they remind me how blessed we are to live in the greatest nation on earth. View quote
Michelle Obama
Can a nation be free if it oppresses other nations? It cannot. View quote
Vladimir Lenin
Into a world unknown,the corner-stone of a nation. View quote
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The ultimate goal of the anti-religious elites is to transform America into a completely secular nation, a nation that is legally and culturally biased against Christianity. (Ron Paul)
Even the best opportunities and readiness to help will not give up if the nation itself does not fight and forge its own destiny by its own struggle. View quote
Stepan Bandera
My message to you all is of hope, courage and confidence. Let us mobilize all our resources in a systematic and organized way and tackle the grave issues that confront us with grim determination and discipline worthy of a great nation. View quote
Muhammad Ali Jinnah
Proverbs contradict each other. That is the wisdom of a nation. View quote
Stanisław Jerzy Lec
Parliament is not a congress of ambassadors from different and hostile interests which interests each must maintain, as an agent and advocate, against other agents and advocates but parliament is a deliberative assembly of one nation, with one interest, that of the whole where, not local purposes, not local prejudices ought to guide, but the general good, resulting from the general reason of the whole. You choose a member indeed but when you have chosen him, he is not a member of Bristol, but he is a member of parliament. View quote
Edmund Burke
The use of force alone is but temporary. It may subdue for a moment but it does no remove the necessity of subduing again and a nation is not governed, which is perpetually to be conquered. View quote
Edmund Burke
True republicanism is the sovereignty of the people. There are natural and imprescriptible rights which an entire nation has no right to violate. View quote
Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette
You just need to be a flea against injustice. Enough committed fleas biting strategically can make even the biggest dog uncomfortable and transform even the biggest nation. View quote
Marian Wright Edelman
No age or condition is without its heroes . The least incapable general in a nation is its Cæsar, the least imbecile statesman its Solon, the least confused thinker its Socrates, the least commonplace poet its Shakespeare . View quote
George Bernard Shaw
The welfare of a nation can scarcely be inferred from a measurement of national income. View quote
Simon Kuznets
There is no greater sign of a general decay of virtue in a nation, than a want of zeal in its inhabitants for the good of their country. (Joseph Addison)
Better one suffer than a nation grieve. View quote
John Dryden
The greater the share the people have in government, the less liberty, civil or religious, does a nation enjoy. View quote
John Wesley
How can a nation be called great if its bread tastes like kleenex? View quote
Julia Child
America... just a nation of two hundred million used car salesmen with all the money we need to buy guns and no qualms about killing anybody else in the world who tries to make us uncomfortable. View quote
Hunter S. Thompson