Top 585 Nation Quotes

Rural communities and our nation’s economy also stand to benefit from broadband expansion. Rural schools can expand the quantity and quality of educational programming. Rural communities can attract businesses and investment.

Our nation is today a powerful nation.

I have a proven record, a record of accomplishment, a record of cutting taxes, of shrinking the government, of reforming education, of challenging the status quo, eliminating career civil service protections, shrinking the government workforce by 11 percent, but leading the nation in job growth.

As a nation – and as a world – we need more truth.

To get education to sink deep into the minds of a nation takes a generation and more.

The public airwaves provide a chance to affirm we want to be a good, decent people; a good, decent nation.

If some nation says to us, ‘You can have aid, but you have to end confrontation,’ then I say, ‘Go to hell with your aid.’

We become distracted from productive labors by our perceived opponents; we become focused on them and not on our larger calling to advance our nation; our debate becomes more about scoring points against an adversary and less about advancing our common cause.

A nation is a society united by a delusion about its ancestry and by common hatred of its neighbours.

During the civilisation and development process of more than 5,000 years, the Chinese nation has made an indelible contribution to the civilisation and advancement of mankind.

We do not deride the fears of prospering white America. A nation of violence and private property has every reason to dread the violated and the deprived.

The honor of a nation is its life.

Peace as a goal is an ideal which will not be contested by any government or nation, not even the most belligerent.

A nation is the same people living in the same place.

The way to kill a man or a nation is to cut off his dreams, the way the whites are taking care of the Indians: killing their dreams, their magic, their familiar spirits.

Any nation that thinks more of its ease and comfort than its freedom will soon lose its freedom; and the ironical thing about it is that it will lose its ease and comfort too.

Border security is the most basic and necessary responsibility of a sovereign nation.

Egypt is a sovereign nation.

Faith crosses every border and touches every heart in every nation.

Being an actor, in my case, any failure or success is extremely visible to a whole nation of movie-watchers.

What affects men sharply about a foreign nation is not so much finding or not finding familiar things; it is rather not finding them in the familiar place.

With us air people, the future of our nation is indissolubly bound up in the development of air power.

For the nation to live, the tribe must die.

If Congress wants to reform our nation’s air traffic control system, it must do so without creating new mandatory user fees and additional layers of regulatory bureaucracy.

Any nation that does not emphasize integrity will always fail.

I head a nation of a million presidents.

There are Jews who came from 102 countries and speak 81 languages – how do you consolidate them into one nation? This is where I saw my role.

You have asked me to lead this nation out of the present wilderness and malaise on to the promised land, and I shall do so; I shall offer a responsive, transparent, and innovative leadership.

The British nation is unique in this respect. They are the only people who like to be told how bad things are, who like to be told the worst.

If we had a hydrogen economy worldwide, every nation on earth could create its own energy source to support its economy, and the threat of war over diminishing resources would just evaporate.

Americans need never fear their government because of the advantage of being armed, which the Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation.

The difference between a nation and a nationality is clear, but it is not always observed. Likeness between members is the essence of nationality, but the members of a nation may be very different. A nation may be composed of many nationalities, as some of the most successful nations are.

India has to be transformed into a developed nation, a prosperous nation and a healthy nation, with a value system.

I do not put red lines on the Arab Palestinian nation.

The greatest nation in the world should not have much to fear from a family, especially children, fleeing violence. More importantly, children fleeing violence ought to have nothing to fear from the greatest country in the world.

I think Maine needs people. It needs diversity. It needs to be able to respect people. Openness is crucial for this state because we don’t want to be known for having the oldest state in the nation. We want young families.

Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

Unfortunately our nation, nay, our world, is run by evil morons.

Every time we go into the voting booth, we are choosing the moral and spiritual direction of our nation. That is a privilege and responsibility that should not be abdicated.

If our nation wants to reduce global warming, air pollution and energy instability, we should invest only in the best energy options. Nuclear energy isn’t one of them.

We all know growth is absolutely vital to a free society. No one should want Australia to be a stag-nation: a nation with a stagnant economy and stagnant aspirations.

Woe to that nation whose literature is cut short by the intrusion of force. This is not merely interference with freedom of the press but the sealing up of a nation’s heart, the excision of its memory.

Cyberspace. A consensual hallucination experienced daily by billions of legitimate operators, in every nation, by children being taught mathematical concepts.

We are a fighting nation, continually struggling to overcome diseases from within… and to face up to foreign intervention from without.

I hate imperialism. I detest colonialism. And I fear the consequences of their last bitter struggle for life. We are determined that our nation, and the world as a whole, shall not be the plaything of one small corner of the world.

Unfortunately, the overwhelming moral force exerted by leaders like Gandhi comes by too rarely in the life of a nation.

The world has never yet seen a truly great and virtuous nation because in the degradation of woman the very fountains of life are poisoned at their source.

The latter 1940s and early ’50s were a time of tense, explosive conflict, in the world at large and in the politics of our nation.

Every nation ridicules other nations, and all are right.

There is no nation so powerful, as the one that obeys its laws not from principals of fear or reason, but from passion.

Education is not a tool for development – individual, community and the nation. It is the foundation for our future. It is empowerment to make choices and emboldens the youth to chase their dreams.

America stands as a beacon of hope and the possibility of a better life – but it is also a nation where nearly 1 in 4 children live in poverty.

We’re a nation of latchkey children. Manners start at home, and no one is at home teaching manners so that children have respect for others.

Unless our conception of patriotism is progressive, it cannot hope to embody the real affection and the real interest of the nation.

Hatred is corrosive of a person’s wisdom and conscience; the mentality of enmity can poison a nation’s spirit, instigate brutal life and death struggles, destroy a society’s tolerance and humanity, and block a nation’s progress to freedom and democracy.

No human heart is denied empathy. No religion can demolish that by indoctrination. No culture, no nation and nationalism – nothing can touch it because it is empathy.

We’re not planning for the future. If we continue to spend ourselves into oblivion, we are going to destroy this nation.

The Youth of a Nation are the trustees of posterity.

I am an Obamacare agnostic – if it works, as I hope it will for the good of the nation, then it’s a great thing. If it doesn’t, then that is a disappointing thing, and we need to try something else.

I am humbled and inspired by the ultimate sacrifice made by so many Mississippians on behalf of our nation, and the families they left behind.

The RBI governor post is very high in the Warrant of Precedence and requires a patriotic and unconditional commitment to our nation.

Upper classes are a nation’s past; the middle class is its future.

You just need to be a flea against injustice. Enough committed fleas biting strategically can make even the biggest dog uncomfortable and transform even the biggest nation.

Herb is the healing of a nation, alcohol is the destruction.

‘Nation’ was one that I’d have killed myself if I hadn’t written it. It was absolutely important to me that I wrote it. It was good for my soul.