Nation Quotes - page 5

Women, if the soul of the nation is to be saved, I believe that you must become its soul. (Coretta Scott King)
A great poet is the most precious jewel of a nation. View quote
Ludwig van Beethoven
It does not follow because many books are written by persons born in America that there exists an American literature. Books which imitate or represent the thoughts and life of Europe do not constitute an American literature. Before such can exist, an original idea must animate this nation and fresh currents of life must call into life fresh thoughts along the shore. View quote
Margaret Fuller
Money is the source of the greatest vice, & that Nation which is most rich, is most wicked. View quote
Frances Burney
Our success educationally, industrially and politically is based upon the protection of a nation founded by ourselves. And the nation can be nowhere else but in Africa. View quote
Marcus Garvey
Discontent is the first step in the progress of a man or a nation. View quote
Oscar Wilde
The whole Scotch nation hitherto has been void of wit and humour, and even incapable of relishing it. View quote
Horace Walpole
America is a nation with no truly national city, no Paris, no Rome, no London, no city which is at once the social center, the political capital, and the financial hub. View quote
C. Wright Mills
The Universal Zulu Nation stands to acknowledge wisdom, understanding, freedom, justice, and equality, peace, unity, love, and having fun, work, overcoming the negative through the positive, science, mathematics, faith, facts, and the wonders of God, whether we call him Allah, Jehovah, Yahweh, or Jah. View quote
Afrika Bambaataa
No man has the right to fix the boundary to the march of a nation. View quote
Charles Stewart Parnell
A nation is born stoic, and dies epicurean. (Will Durant)
An Honest politician will not be tolerated by a democracy unless he is very stupid ... because only a very stupid man can honestly share the prejudices of more than half the nation. View quote
Bertrand Russell
Few people can be happy unless they hate some other person, nation, or creed. View quote
Bertrand Russell
The object of government is the welfare of the people. The material progress and prosperity of a nation are desirable chiefly so far as they lead to the moral and material welfare of all good citizens. View quote
Theodore Roosevelt
Wherever we look, the work of the chemist has raised the level of our civilization and has increased the productive capacity of our nation. View quote
Calvin Coolidge
The nation which forgets its defenders will be itself forgotten. View quote
Calvin Coolidge
The genius, wit, and the spirit of a nation are discovered by their proverbs. View quote
Francis Bacon
Herb is the healing of a nation, alcohol is the destruction. View quote
Bob Marley
A nation without a religion - that is like a man without breath. View quote
Joseph Goebbels
Despotism can no more exist in a nation until the liberty of the press be destroyed than the night can happen before the sun is set. View quote
Charles Caleb Colton
The workers of the nation were tired of waiting for corporate industry to right their economic wrongs, to alleviate their social agony and to grant them their political rights. Despairing of fair treatment, they resolved to do something for themselves. (John L. Lewis)
I am certain that I speak on behalf of my entire nation when I say: Today we are all Americans - in grief, as in defiance. View quote
Benjamin Netanyahu
Once to every person and nation come the moment to decide. In the conflict of truth with falsehood, for the good or evil side. View quote
James Russell Lowell
The nation guarantees the nurture, education, and comfortable maintenance of every citizen from the cradle to the grave. View quote
Edward Bellamy
You have to love a nation that celebrates its independence every July 4, not with a parade of guns, tanks, and soldiers who file by the White House in a show of strength and muscle, but with family picnics where kids throw Frisbees, the potato salad gets iffy, and the flies die from happiness. You may think you have overeaten, but it is patriotism. View quote
Erma Bombeck