Nation Quotes

The communism of Marx seeks a strong state centralization, and where this exists, there the parasitic Jewish nation - which speculates upon the labor of people - will always find the means for its existence.

Not only must Americans admire Israel, there can be no doubt that we have an interest in, and special responsibility for, that valiant nation.

Manners are the hypocrisy of a nation.

When a nation's young men are conservative, its funeral bell is already rung.

England is a nation of shopkeepers.

By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation.

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

In order to fix Social Security, we must restructure it so that we continue to provide for our Nation's seniors that are approaching retirement age, but allow for younger taxpayers to invest a portion of their Social Security taxes in private accounts.

No one of this nation ever begs, for the houses of all are common to all; and they consider liberality and hospitality amongst the first virtues.

Nature hath given not only to the highest, but also to the inferior, classes of the people of this nation, a boldness and confidence in speaking and answering, even in the presence of their princes and chieftains.

My theology is such that the God who loves Israel and will not forsake Israel - which is why I want to see Israel have a secure nation with secure borders - also loves the Palestinians.

Americans are rightly concerned about the security and the integrity of the nation's borders because the system is broken. Some are concerned about the possibility of terrorists crossing our borders and coming into our cities.

It is time for a New Direction for our nation's energy policies.

Mr. Speaker, less than 10 percent of our Nation's children walk or ride their bicycles to school, and too many schools continue to invite fast-food vendors into their cafeterias.

As an adoptive parent myself of foster children, I have seen firsthand the glaring problems of the system currently facing this Nation.

Each nation feels superior to other nations. That breeds patriotism - and wars.

The nation which forgets its defenders will be itself forgotten.

Japan is a great nation. It should begin to act like one.

I refer, of course, to the debts our nation has amassed for itself over decades of indulgence. It is the new Red Menace, this time consisting of ink. We can debate its origins endlessly and search for villains on ideological grounds, but the reality is pure arithmetic.

The federal government now spends one of every four dollars in the entire economy. It borrows one of every three dollars it spends. No nation, no entity, large or small, public or private, can thrive, or survive intact, with debts as huge as ours.

If we don't believe in Americans, who will? I do believe. I've seen it in the people of our very typical corner of the nation.

We do not accept that ours will ever be a nation of haves and have-nots. We must always be a nation of haves and soon-to-haves.

The Palestinians are the only nation in the world that feels with certainty that today is better than what the days ahead will hold. Tomorrow always heralds a worse situation.

Iraq is not the only nation in the world to possess weapons of mass destruction, but it is the only nation with a leader who has used them against his own people.

The BBC provides the commentary on our lives, the soundtrack of the nation. It is one of the most powerful unifying forces in the United Kingdom today.

The Youth of a Nation are the trustees of posterity.

Without publicity there can be no public support, and without public support every nation must decay.

The life of the nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous.

Thus we have at least a national song that unites all Germans, and is the symbol of our sixty-million nation.

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.

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

The spirit of man is more important than mere physical strength, and the spiritual fiber of a nation than its wealth.

A good nation I will make live.

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

And, these Islamic fundamentalists, these radical terrorists, these Middle Eastern monsters are committed to destroying the Jewish nation, driving her into the Mediterranean, conquering the world.

But when I reintroduced the Nation of Islam, and began to host meetings in cities and thousands and thousands of people come out.

However, those who have used those words use half the sentence to fit their purpose, which, of course, I believe is to discredit me and the new Nation of Islam that has come up around me.

Instead of starting a new nuclear arms race, now is the time to reclaim our Nation's position of leadership on nuclear nonproliferation efforts.

This nation was founded by rebels and revolutionaries, and its flags were carried across the battlefields by people who were very, very against the status quo and who questioned and criticized.

No nation was ever ruined by trade.

We are a nation of immigrants, but we are also a nation of laws.

A nation' s strength ultimately consists in what it can do on its own, and not in what it can borrow from others.

Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the act depriving a whole nation of arms as the blackest.

A nation's culture resides in the hearts and in the soul of its people.

The greatness of a nation can be judged by the way its animals are treated.

We all understand that the debasement of a nation's coinage is very pernicious and must prove disastrous to its commerce. How much more dangerous is the debasement of the spiritual coinage!

I have been absolutely clear where I'm coming from about health care reform. This is something this nation has to do and a robust public option has been the mantra of my campaign from the very outset.

He who controls the money supply of a nation controls the nation.

Territory is but the body of a nation. The people who inhabit its hills and valleys are its soul, its spirit, its life.

Our success educationally, industrially and politically is based upon the protection of a nation founded by ourselves. And the nation can be nowhere else but in Africa.

Brazil is the second blackest nation in the world.

No nation has friends only interests.

How can anyone govern a nation that has two hundred and forty-six different kinds of cheese?

In every industrialized nation, the movement to reform health care has begun with stories about cruelty.

Founded when Abraham Lincoln believed education could lead the nation out of its darkest days, Ohio State now provides a powerful platform of interdisciplinary academic programs, world-class scholars, outstanding students, and extensive research capabilities.

The decline of literature indicates the decline of a nation.

What was new was the symbolic force of the targets struck. The attackers did not just physically cause the highest buildings in Manhattan to collapse; they also destroyed an icon in the household imagery of the American nation.

A threatened nation can react to uncertain dangers solely through administrative channels, to the truly embarrassing situation of perhaps overreacting.

God is concerned with nations, but nations also need to be concerned with God. No nation can have a monopoly on God, but God will bless any nation whose people seek and honor His will as revealed by Christ and declared through the Holy Spirit.

When you reduce taxes on higher earners it's vital to be reducing them on lower earning people as well so the nation shares in the approach.

Egypt is a sovereign nation.

The extreme socialists desire to run every nation as a single business concern.

The best party is but a kind of conspiracy against the rest of the nation.

In the usual progress of things, the necessities of a nation in every stage of its existence will be found at least equal to its resources.

This nation is never finished. It has to be re-created in each generation.

Play is under attack in our nation's schools - and shrinking recess periods are only part of the problem. Homework is increasing. Cities are building new schools without playgrounds. Safety concerns are prompting bans of tag, soccer, and even running on the schoolyard.

As I see it, the debate between summer vacation vs. year-round school glosses over the most important questions. Namely, how can we bring play back to our nation's schools?

If a nation loses its storytellers, it loses its childhood.

The English (it must be owned) are rather a foul-mouthed nation.

The first panacea for a mismanaged nation is inflation of the currency; the second is war. Both bring a temporary prosperity; both bring a permanent ruin. But both are the refuge of political and economic opportunists.

Size is not grandeur, and territory does not make a nation.

We are a nation of laws and a nation of immigrants.

A Failure in this Duty did once involve our Nation in all the Horrors of Rebellion and Civil War.

I represented the people of Hawaii and this nation honestly and to the best of my ability. I think I did okay.

I believe that as a nation we must have a bipartisan discussion about how to best preserve and protect Social Security for our seniors and for future generations of Americans.

Our Nation's immigration laws are disrespected both by those who cross our borders illegally and by the businesses that hire those illegal immigrants.

The savage repression of blacks, which can be estimated by reading the obituary columns of the nation's dailies, Fred Hampton, etc., has not failed to register on the black inmates.

From seeds of his body blossomed the flower that liberated a people and touched the soul of a nation.

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.

There is nothing more important to our Nation's future, to our homeland security, and to our economy than ensuring we have a top-notch educational system that is the envy of the world.

The budget does not adequately fund important domestic programs, promotes tax cuts to the detriment of other priorities and does little to put our nation's fiscal house in order.