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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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