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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

As the nation at last confronts global warming, it is no time for denial, greed, cynicism or pessimism. — Bernie Sanders

In old times people used to try and square the circle; now they try and devise schemes for satisfying the Irish nation. — Samuel Butler

Our nation is well equipped to make the transition. We have an abundance of natural resources like wind, natural gas, solar and geothermal. — Julia Gillard

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

Restoring responsibility and accountability is essential to the economic and fiscal health of our nation. — Carl Levin

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

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

After India and China, Indonesia was the biggest new nation-state to emerge in the mid-twentieth century. — Pankaj Mishra

Money powers prey upon the nation in times of peace & conspire against it in times of adversity. — Abraham Lincoln

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

The nation guarantees the nurture, education, and comfortable maintenance of every citizen from the cradle to the grave. — Edward Bellamy

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

Any society, any nation, is judged on the basis of how it treats its weakest members - the last, the least, the littlest. — Roger Mahony

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

While out in TV Nation, under darkening skies, the resistance is just waiting to be organized. — Ani DiFranco

Neither the colourless vagueness of cosmopolitanism, nor the fierce self-idolatry of nation-worship, is the goal of human history. — Rabindranath Tagore

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

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

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

The greatest danger facing our nation isn't terrorism, global warming or the energy crisis. It is out-of-control, unbridled government spending. — R. Lee Wrights

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

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

God's grace and revelation are the monopoly of no race or nation. — Mahatma Gandhi

1 Vindicate me, O God, and plead my case against an ungodly nation; O deliver me from the deceitful and unjust man! — Anonymous

John Calhoun, if you secede from my nation I will secede your head from the rest of your body. — Andrew Jackson

The trouble with you and me my friend, is the trouble with this nation, too many blessings, too little Appreciation. — Don Henley

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

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

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

Tribe follows tribe, and nation follows nation, like the waves of the sea. It is the order of nature, and regret is useless. — Chief Seattle

We need to protect the sovereignty of our nation, and we need to protect the security of our people here in the country. — Marsha Blackburn

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

It was the nation and the race dwelling all round the globe that had the lion's heart. I had the luck to be called upon to give the roar. — Winston Churchill

Be it caste or communal violence, they stall the growth of the nation. Let us affirm that we will be free from these tensions. — Narendra Modi

The church has to show the way of freedom to the nation — Sunday Adelaja

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

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

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

Anybody who recognizes Israel will burn in the fire of the Islamic nation's fury. — Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

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

Jews have been the most successful and productive nation in history. — H.W. Charles

Our Nation must defend the sanctity of marriage. — George W. Bush

So I took the bright red stick and at the center of the nation's hoop I thrust it in the earth. — Black Elk

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

Lyndon Johnson rose above the doubt and fear to hold this Nation on course until we rediscovered our faith in ourselves. — Richard M. Nixon

It is sometimes necessary to lie damnably in the interests of the nation. — Hilaire Belloc

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

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

The church is called by God to become God's agent of deliverance in every nation — Sunday Adelaja

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

The civil libertarians among us would rather defend the constitution than protect our nation's security. — Jeff Sessions

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

What kind of nation are we when we give tax breaks to billionaires, but we can't take care of the elderly and the children. — Bernie Sanders

The fall of the nation, there is no;
Faithfulness,
Kindness and
Knowledge of God in your sacred land. — Lailah Gifty Akita

France is the only nation in which astoundingly small numbers of civilized patrons reside. — Gustave Courbet

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

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

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

Karaoke bars combine two of the nation's greatest evils: people who shouldn't drink with people who shouldn't sing. — Tom Dreesen

Poor is the nation that has no heroes, but poorer still is the nation that having heroes, fails to remember and honor them. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

The essential thing is the formation of the political will of the nation: that is the starting point for political action. — Adolf Hitler

Through universal health the nation can learn to love each other and we can live in peace. — Fatimah Abdur-Rahim

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

If we could manage our own finances the way the Congress does the nation's, we'd all be living in high cotton and eating high on the hog. — Charley Reese

Every nation at the end of the day must fend for itself. Sometimes, it needs help. And Ukraine deserves all the help in the world. — Marvin Kalb

But 'tis the talent of our English nation, Still to be plotting some new reformation. — John Dryden

Heroes are the saints of every nation. — Sorin Cerin

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

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

The spread of personal ownership is in harmony with the deepest instincts of the British people. Few changes have done more to create one nation. — Nigel Lawson

In the long run, no nation can prosper unless the world prospers. — Charles M. Schwab

The abuse of detainees in U.S. custody has severely undermined our Nation's position in the world. — Diane Watson

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

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

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

Honest people can disagree on policy. But where there can be no honest disagreement is the need to change our nation's debt course. — Jeff Sessions

The ideals that bind us together are as old as our nation, but so are the forces that pull us apart. — William J. Clinton

Founded on faith in God, the United States has been blessed as no other nation. — Jeremiah Denton

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

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

Our Nation's founding commitment is still our deepest commitment: In our world, and here at home, we will extend the frontiers of freedom. — George W. Bush

Militarism consumes the strongest and most productive elements of each nation. Militarism swallows the largest part of the national revenue. — Emma Goldman

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

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 nation is bound together by its creative artists and not by parallel lines of rusting steel. — Pierre Berton

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

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

America is the most giving nation on Earth. One of the best ways to feel better is by doing something for somebody else. — Mark Burnett