National Quotes

Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt. (Herbert Hoover)
I cannot forecast to you the action of Russia. It is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma but perhaps there is a key. That key is Russian national interest. View quote
Winston Churchill
A national debt, if it is not excessive, will be to us a national blessing. View quote
Alexander Hamilton
Our national drug is alcohol. We tend to regard the use any other drug with special horror. View quote
William S. Burroughs
A citizen of America will cross the ocean to fight for democracy, but won't cross the street to vote in a national election. View quote
Bill Vaughan
There is no national science, just as there is no national multiplication table; what is national is no longer science. View quote
Anton Chekhov
The political lesson of Watergate is this: Never again must America allow an arrogant, elite guard of political adolescents to by-pass the regular party organization and dictate the terms of a national election. View quote
Gerald Ford
I have left orders to be awakened at any time in case of national emergency, even if I'm in a cabinet meeting. View quote
Ronald Reagan
All national institutions of churches, whether Jewish, Christian or Turkish, appear to me no other than human inventions, set up to terrify and enslave mankind, and monopolize power and profit. View quote
Thomas Paine
We must recognize that as the dominant power in the world we have a special responsibility. In addition to protecting our national interests, we must take the leadership in protecting the common interests of humanity. View quote
George Soros
We should have been there shoulder to shoulder with our allies. Our concern is the instability of our government as an ally. We are playing again with national and global security matters. (Stephen Harper)
The happy ending is our national belief. View quote
Mary McCarthy
Business underlies everything in our national life, including our spiritual life. Witness the fact that in the Lord's Prayer, the first petition is for daily bread. No one can worship God or love his neighbor on an empty stomach. View quote
Woodrow Wilson
It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember. View quote
Eugene McCarthy
National sovereignty is an obligation as well as an entitlement. A government that will not perform the role of a government forfeits the rights of a government. View quote
Richard Perle
To contrast national solidarity and international cooperation as two opposites seems foolish to me. View quote
Gustav Stresemann
Stay with us, please remain in this country and constitute a nation based on national unity. View quote
Robert Mugabe
National honor is national property of the highest value. View quote
James Monroe
As one digs deeper into the national character of the Americans, one sees that they have sought the value of everything in this world only in the answer to this single question: how much money will it bring in? View quote
Alexis de Tocqueville
It has been shown that, in contrast to everything which classical national economy has hitherto taught, not the producer but the consumer is the ruling factor in economic life. View quote
Hjalmar Schacht
In France, cooking is a serious art form and a national sport. (Julia Child)
In these days a man is nobody unless his biography is kept so far posted up that it may be ready for the national breakfast-table on the morning after his demise. View quote
Anthony Trollope
The scenic ideals that surround even our national parks are carriers of a nostalgia for heavenly bliss and eternal calmness. View quote
Robert Smithson
Television was supposed to be a national park. Instead it has become a money machine. It's a commodity now, just like pork bellies. View quote
Fred W. Friendly
National character is only another name for the particular form which the littleness, perversity and baseness of mankind take in every country. Every nation mocks at other nations, and all are right. View quote
Arthur Schopenhauer