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America as a nation cannot walk in faith and fear at the same time. — Dennis Kucinich

The dignity of a nation is derived from the dignity of its citizens. — Debasish Mridha

We Irish are too poetical to be poets; we are a nation of brilliant failures, but we are the greatest talkers since the Greeks. — Oscar Wilde

The truly revolutionary promise of our nation's founding document is the freedom to pursue happiness-with-a-capital-H. — Dan Savage

History is the memory of a nation — Thomas Sowell

We need to remain a nation that doesn't just welcome but that celebrates legal immigrants who come here seeking to pursue the American Dream. — Ted Cruz

It started back in '79,
My whole darn future was on the line.
I created a brand new sensation
Through my mind and the whole darn nation ... — Sylvia Robinson

A growing nation is the greatest ponzi game ever contrived. — Paul Samuelson

Your ideas about possession must increase until you get to a state of full possession of the land, city and nation — Sunday Adelaja

We have become a society of indulgent consumers resulting in rapidly increasing debt both personally and as a nation. — L.G. Durand

A budget should reflect the values and priorities of our nation and its people. — Mary Landrieu

A nation's art is the expression of its soul. — Marvin Bell

But even a nation of laws must understand the limits of legalism. — Richard Perle

A nation that does not stand for its children does not stand for anything and will not stand tall in the future. — Marian Wright Edelman

If you want a nation to have space exploration ambitions, you've got to send humans. — Neil DeGrasse Tyson

A defeated nation is always explaining itself. That's why the best storytellers are always from vanquished nations. — Mark Richard

Australia is a nation of compassion. Courage and compassion. And the third of these great values: resilience. — Kevin Rudd

Our culture, language, history, and values are vital to uniting us as a nation. — Bobby Jindal

A nation of ants, morose, frigid, and still preserving the same dread of happiness and joy as in the days of John Knox. — Max O'Rell

Under a dictatorship, a nation ceases to exist. All that remains is a fiefdom, a planet of slaves regimented by aliens from outer space. — Wole Soyinka

If you educate a girl, you educate a nation. — Helene D. Gayle

After a big war a nation doesn't want another for a generation or more. — Edward Grey

Egypt is a sovereign nation. — William Hague

The more I think of all that I have seen in the Confederate States, the more I feel inclined to say ... 'How can you subdue such a nation as this!' — Arthur Fremantle

I would rather belong to a poor nation that was free than to a rich nation that had ceased to be in love with liberty. — Woodrow Wilson

What do you expect from a culture and a nation that exerted more of its national will fighting against Disney World and Big Macs than the Nazis? — Dennis Miller

We have always been a nation different from the Chinese. Long ago we fought wars with them. — Dalai Lama

It was always yet the trick of our English nation, if they have a good thing, to make it too common. — William Shakespeare

A nation is a detour of nature to arrive at five or six great men- yes, and then to get around them. — Friedrich Nietzsche

We've been an empire in decline since I can remember," Ketchum said bluntly; he wasn't kidding. "We are a lost nation, Danny. Stop farting around. — John Irving

Ronnie Barker was a straightforward man who had this extraordinary ability to make the nation laugh — Michael Palin

The decline of literature indicates the decline of a nation. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

A nation without borders is like a house without walls - it collapses. And that is what is going to happen to our wonderful America. — Jan Brewer

Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education. The human mind is our fundamental resource. — John F. Kennedy

A weak currency is the sign of a weak economy, and a weak economy leads to a weak nation. — Ross Perot

It is not the amount of money or natural resources a nation has that determines how civilized it would be. — Sunday Adelaja

We stand united, facing the big responsibility to change our country into a nation of justice, solidarity, humanity and green development. — George Papandreou

Media: the tongue of a nation! — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

There is no topicmore soporific and generally boring than the topic of Ireland as Ireland, as a nation. — Ezra Pound

America is such a nation of suppressed emotion, and when you arrive in L.A., you can smell the fear. It's the most alien country I've ever been to. — Helen McCrory

I head a nation of a million presidents. — Chaim Weizmann

Maybe Napoleon was wrong when he said we were a nation of shopkeepers ... Today England looked like a nation of goalkeepers. — Tom Stoppard

We can't afford as a nation - not because of money but because of our social fabric - to have large numbers of people who are not working. — Donna Shalala

The root of a nation's misfortunes has to be sought in the moral failings of the government. — Aung San Suu Kyi

There is a tendency to judge a race, a nation or any distinct group by its leastworthy members. — Eric Hoffer

Unless a nation's life faces peril, war is murder. — Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

They had become a nation of traders. — Petina Gappah

Whether you are running a business, an industry, or a nation - what is needed are insight, integrity, and inspiration. — Jaggi Vasudev

Television has created a nation of news junkies who tune in every night to get their fix on the world. — Robert MacNeil

Starting and feeding into the cultural war is absolutely unequivocally wrong for us as a nation and bad for the conservative movement. — Tim Scott

Love is the garland without thread that bound us together as a family, as a society, as a nation, and for the humanity. — Debasish Mridha

There was no more dangerous a time in a nation's life than the passing of a ruler when the succession was in doubt. — Leanda De Lisle

The nation has placed its faith in the precept that all laws should be inspired by actual needs here on earth as a basic fact of national life. — Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

The greater ignorance towards a country is not ignoring what its politicians have to say, it is ignoring what the inmates in its prisons have to say. — Criss Jami

Better one suffer than a nation grieve. — John Dryden

Unless there comes to the Nation a greater emancipation than Lincoln's Proclamation effected, it is doomed, it is bound to go down. — Francis James Grimke

You can tell a lot about the intellectual and moral progress of a nation's citizens, by the quality and nature of the films they watch. — Abhijit Naskar

No nation can be destroyed while it possesses a good home life. — J.G. Holland

Where there is a worker, there lies a nation. — Evita Peron

But a nation which has people who can think, the nation already has strength. It is the mind which rules, not instinct or habit. — F. Sionil Jose

You can be a German, you can be a Greek or a Spanish or a Japanese etc, but your true nation is the whole humanity! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

When we as a nation, strive in vain to preserve the beauty of our national life, forgetting our biblical roots, we are doomed. — Richard Halverson

There are certain moments in the history of a nation when the choices made define the decades to come. — George Papandreou

Once imbued with the idea of a mission, a great nation easily assumes that it has the means as well as the duty to do God's work. — J. William Fulbright

Nothing is so retentive as a nation's memory. — Joseph A. Schumpeter

A nation may be ever so civilized and yet lack wisdom. — Henry David Thoreau

What distinguishes the "war on terror" is that it is a war against a concept, not a nation. And the enemy concept, it seems to me, is pluralism. — Mohsin Hamid

The United States is a Christian nation founded upon Christian principles and beliefs. — George W. Bush

I've got a bit of an independent streak. I'm not afraid of bipartisan compromise on issues that are important to the nation. — Heather Wilson

Being a noninvasive advanced civilization
was the biggest mistake of Batak Kingdom. — Toba Beta

It is not that the people want a BJP government or Modi as PM. The Nation wants to teach a lesson to those who have ruined the nation. — Narendra Modi

In a society based on nonviolence, the smallest nation will feel as tall as the tallest. — Mahatma Gandhi

If we invest in the American people, the American people always bring this Nation a good return. — Blanche Lincoln

Politics is the art of reaching a goal that benefits all citizens of a nation. — Khem Veasna

Kill the heroes and you kill the soul of a nation. — Robert Ferrigno

A nation of unhappy teachers makes for a sadder and more endangered America. — Pat Conroy

The death of a man is like the fall of a mighty nation That had valiant armies, captains, and prophets, And wealthy ports and ships all over the seas. — Czeslaw Milosz

War is America's central liturgical act necessary to renew our sense that we are a nation unlike other nations. — Stanley Hauerwas

When value systems are embraced by a nation, when the citizens of a country are truly rich in virtues, then material wealth is a matter of time. — Sunday Adelaja

A nation will rise no higher than the strength of its homes. — Gordon B. Hinckley

The less knowledgeable a nation is, the more 'miracles' the nation has. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation can be trusted to act humanely or to think sanely under the influence of a great fear. — Bertrand Russell

Liberty may make mistakes but tyranny is the death of a nation. — Giacomo Matteotti

When citizens of a country or nation believe in superstitions or dogma, they will inevitably suffer from tremendous misery or tragedy. — Debasish Mridha

It seems that immigrants often have a special understanding of the incredible opportunities that this nation affords its citizens. — Jon Kyl

If a nation blames other nations for their problems, most likely the citizens of the nations will do the same thing. — Debasish Mridha

The chains of military despotism, once fastened upon a nation, ages might pass away before they could be shaken off. — William Henry Harrison

We are a nation of faith, and we are stewards of God's world. — Mike Huckabee

When the British-Malaysian photographer Ian Teh first worked in China, more than a decade ago, he rendered it as a nation of people in Technicolor. — Evan Osnos

Britain's continuing membership of the Community would mean the end of Britain as a completely self-governing nation — Tony Benn

There must be no worse punishment to a totalitarian nation than the withdrawal of capital. — Jerzy Kosinski

The nation looked upon him as a deserter, and he shrunk into insignificancy and an earldom. — Lord Chesterfield

The statesman's duty is to bridge the gap between his nation's experience and his vision. — Henry A. Kissinger

During my training I was trained in Psycho-politics. This was the art of capturing the minds of a nation through brainwashing and fake mental health. — Kenneth Goff

No nation keeps its word. A nation is a big, blind worm, following what? Fate perhaps. A nation has no honor, it has no word to keep . — Carl Jung

A nation that sends its women to fight its wars is not worth defending. — Pat Buchanan

Understanding is the basis of care. What you would take care of you must first understand, whether it be a petunia or a nation. — Dallas Willard

Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freeness of speech. — Benjamin Franklin

Nothing becomes reality in the political life of a nation that was not present in its literature as spirit. — Hugo Von Hofmannsthal

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. — Georges Pompidou