Nation Quotes - page 6

This country has gotten where it is in spite of politics, not by the aid of it. That we have carried as much political bunk as we have and still survived shows we are a super nation. (Will Rogers)
We are the first nation in the history of the world to go to the poorhouse in an automobile. View quote
Will Rogers
The strength of a nation is derived from the integrity of its homes. View quote
Confucius
Liberty is a great celestial Goddess, strong, beneficent, and austere, and she can never descend upon a nation by the shouting of crowds, nor by arguments of unbridled passion, nor by the hatred of class against class. View quote
Annie Besant
It is tragic that the Fuehrer should have the whole nation behind him with the single exception of the Army generals. In my opinion it is only by action that they can now atone for their faults of lack of character and discipline. View quote
Alfred Jodl
You cannot have democratic accountability in anything bigger than a nation state. View quote
Václav Klaus
A new era will dawn in Africa, when the impoverished masses of a nation rise up to rescue their right to a decent life from the hands of the ruling oligarchies. View quote
Che Guevara
Whenever we proclaim the uniqueness of a religion, a truth, a leader, a nation, a race, a part or a holy cause, we are also proclaiming our own uniqueness. View quote
Eric Hoffer
The less justified a man is in claiming excellence for his own self, the more ready he is to claim all excellence for his nation, his religion, his race or his holy cause. View quote
Eric Hoffer
You cannot speak on behalf of a nation when you have no mandate to do so. View quote
Jean-Marie Le Pen
There is something ridiculous and even quite indecent in an individual claiming to be happy. Still more a people or a nation making such a claim. The pursuit of happiness... is without any question the most fatuous which could possibly be undertaken. This lamentable phrase ''the pursuit of happiness'' is responsible for a good part of the ills and miseries of the modern world. (Malcolm Muggeridge)
Many years before I had left a beautiful country and a rich nation and I returned to that country six years later to find it fundamentally changed and in a state of upheaval, and in great spiritual and material need. View quote
Fritz Sauckel
As a nation, we may take pride in the fact that we are soft-hearted; but we cannot afford to be soft-headed. View quote
Franklin D. Roosevelt
A nation that destroys its soils destroys itself. Forests are the lungs of our land, purifying the air and giving fresh strength to our people. View quote
Franklin D. Roosevelt
A love for tradition has never weakened a nation, indeed it has strengthened nations in their hour of peril. View quote
Winston Churchill
It is said that no-one truly knows a nation until one has been inside its jails. A nation should not be judged by how it treats its highest citizens, but its lowest ones, Mr Mandela has said. View quote
Nelson Mandela
I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character. View quote
Martin Luther King Jr.
King Louis Philippe once said to me that he attributed the great success of the British nation in political life to their talking politics after dinner. View quote
Benjamin Disraeli
Without publicity there can be no public support, and without public support every nation must decay. View quote
Benjamin Disraeli
A nation that enslaves another forges its own chains. View quote
Karl Marx
At what point then is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reach us, it must spring up amongst us. It cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide. (Abraham Lincoln)
Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. View quote
Abraham Lincoln
Allow the president to invade a neighboring nation, whenever he shall deem it necessary to repel an invasion, and you allow him to do so whenever he may choose to say he deems it necessary for such a purpose - and you allow him to make war at pleasure. View quote
Abraham Lincoln
In a nation of sheep, one brave man forms a majority. View quote
Edward Abbey
To found a great empire for the sole purpose of raising up a people of customers, may at first sight appear a project fit only for a nation of shopkeepers. It is, however, a project altogether unfit for a nation of shopkeepers, but extremely fit for a nation that is governed by shopkeepers. View quote
Adam Smith