National Quotes - page 2

Some say our national pastime is baseball. Not me. It's gossip. (Erma Bombeck)
When we think of the major threats to our national security, the first to come to mind are nuclear proliferation, rogue states and global terrorism. But another kind of threat lurks beyond our shores, one from nature, not humans - an avian flu pandemic. View quote
Barack Obama
We cannot continue to rely only on our military in order to achieve the national security objectives that we've set. We've got to have a civilian national security force that's just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded. View quote
Barack Obama
An election cannot give a country a firm sense of direction if it has two or more national parties which merely have different names but are as alike in their principles and aims as two peas in the same pod. View quote
Franklin D. Roosevelt
I hold it the duty of the Executive to insist upon frugality in the expenditures, and a sparing economy is itself a great national resource. View quote
Andrew Johnson
I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts. View quote
Abraham Lincoln
The Covenant of the League of Nations had envisaged sponsoring only the protection of certain categories of men: national minorities and populations of territories controlled by other countries. View quote
Rene Cassin
International institutions ought to be, as the national ones in democratic countries, established by the peoples and for the peoples. View quote
Henri La Fontaine
Relinquishing apparent national sovereignty does not have to entail a loss of national sovereignty, but can actually be a benefit. View quote
Ulrich Beck
Without peace, there is no freedom, individual or national. War and hostilities are a form of slavery. View quote
Klas Pontus Arnoldson
In particular, the efforts to reestablish peace after the World War have been directed toward the formation of states and the regulation of their frontiers according to a consciously national program. (Christian Lous Lange)
In the dying world I come from, quotation is a national vice. View quote
Evelyn Waugh
It would be especially tragic if the people who most cherish ideals of peace, who are most anxious for political cooperation on a wider than national scale, made the mistake of underestimating the pace of economic change in our modern world. View quote
Lester B. Pearson
Some national parks have long waiting lists for camping reservations. When you have to wait a year to sleep next to a tree, something is wrong. View quote
George Carlin
America has had gifted conservative statesmen and national leaders. But with few exceptions, only the liberals have gone down in history as national heroes. View quote
Gunnar Myrdal
National injustice is the surest road to national downfall. View quote
William Ewart Gladstone
If the end be clearly comprehended within any of the specified powers, and if the measure have an obvious relation to that end, and is not forbidden by any particular provision of the Constitution, it may safely be deemed to come within the compass of the national authority. View quote
Alexander Hamilton
Our first and most pressing problem is how to do away with warfare as a method of solving conflicts between national groups within a society who have different views about how the society is to run. View quote
Margaret Mead
At present the national budget plays a very large role in the whole financial policy of our country. View quote
Ragnar Frisch
CANNON, n. An instrument employed in the rectification of national boundaries. View quote
Ambrose Bierce
Which painting in the National Gallery would I save if there was a fire? The one nearest the door of course. (George Bernard Shaw)
The welfare of a nation can scarcely be inferred from a measurement of national income. View quote
Simon Kuznets
Nothing is so well calculated to produce a death-like torpor in the country as an extended system of taxation and a great national debt. View quote
William Cobbett
There is no national problem in the world today, which cannot be resolved by reason alone. View quote
L. Ron Hubbard
Instead of fulfilling the promise of infinite orgastic bliss, sex in the America of the feminine mystique is becoming a strangely joyless national compulsion, if not a contemptuous mockery. View quote
Betty Friedan