Nation Quotes - page 7

I am going to build the kind of nation that President Roosevelt hoped for, President Truman worked for, and President Kennedy died for. (Lyndon B. Johnson)
United States: .... A nation given either to unjustified over-enthusiasms or infantile furies. View quote
John Ralston Saul
As the family goes, so goes the nation and so goes the whole world in which we live. View quote
Pope John Paul II
From this day forward, the millions of our school children will daily proclaim in every city and town, every village and rural school house, the dedication of our nation and our people to the Almighty. View quote
Dwight D. Eisenhower
If we ever forget that we are One Nation Under God, then we will be a nation gone under. View quote
Ronald Reagan
A person cannot choose the time in which he is born or lives; it is not up to him, who his parents are, or the nation he will be born into, but what he is responsible for is how he will act in that given time: will he be human or inhuman. View quote
Pavle (Serbian)
Before a nation can be rebuilt, its citizens need to understand how it was destroyed in the first place: how its institutions were undermined, how its language was twisted, how its people were manipulated. View quote
Anne Applebaum
I was told to challenge every spiritual teacher, every world leader to utter the one sentence that no religion, no political party, and no nation on the face of the earth will dare utter: 'Ours is not a better way, ours is merely another way. View quote
Neale Donald Walsch
Washington's character was rock solid. He came to stand for the new nation and its republican virtues, which was why he became our first President by unanimous choice. View quote
Stephen Ambrose
Nonetheless, we continue to be obsessed with finding or inventing a European nation which, as in the nation state, guarantees homogeneity and thus an appropriate form of democracy and centralized government. View quote
Ulrich Beck
If we examine the Hague Convention carefully, we see that it considers the offer of good offices a duty of every nation. In other words, such offers should be made whenever a dispute becomes critical and threatens to explode into war. (Charles Albert Gobat)
The world before 1914 was already a world in which the welfare of each individual nation was inextricably bound up with the prosperity of the whole community of nations. View quote
Arthur Henderson
To walk behind others on a road you are traveling together, to give precedence to others without envy - this is painful for an individual and painful for a nation. View quote
Gustav Stresemann
Common sense is judgment without reflection, shared by an entire class, an entire nation, or the entire human race. View quote
Giambattista Vico
The more each nation contributes to world society from the wealth of its own aptitudes, its own race, and its own traditions, the greater the future development and happiness of mankind will be. View quote
Ernesto Teodoro Moneta
A statesman is a politician who places himself at the service of the nation. A politician is a statesman who places the nation at his service. View quote
Georges Pompidou
Nothing is more important in the preservation of peace than to secure among the great mass of the people living under constitutional government a just conception of the rights which their nation has against others and of the duties their nation owes to others. View quote
Elihu Root
The theoretical postulate of all diplomatic discussion between nations is the assumed willingness of every nation to do justice. View quote
Elihu Root
Never should the power of an individual be allowed to impede the progress of the rest of the nation; never should the power of a nation be allowed to impede the progress of mankind. View quote
Leon Bourgeois
Historically, we have lived in a nation of energy dependence. Dependence on others for our heating and electricity, and for our fuel for transportation. View quote
Mike Pompeo
We call ourselves public servants but I'll tell you this: we as public servants must set an example for the rest of the nation. It is hypocritical for the public official to admonish and exhort the people to uphold the common good. (Barbara Jordan)
When you won that title you should know now that you are representing a whole country or nation with your actions and you are now in a glass house or under a microscope and you better be ready to make your people proud. View quote
Alexis Arguello
Nations have recently been led to borrow billions for war; no nation has ever borrowed largely for education... no nation is rich enough to pay for both war and civilization. We must make our choice; we cannot have both. View quote
Abraham Flexner
I am still profoundly troubled by the war in Nicaragua. The United States launched a covert war against another nation in violation of international law, a war that was wrong and immoral. View quote
Bianca Jagger
America does not want vulgarity and sexual exploitation to be our values and we do not want the world to think those are our standards. We want to be a better nation and a better people, with better standards. View quote
Charles W. Pickering