A nation is a society united by a delusion about its ancestry and by common hatred of its neighbours.
~ William Ralph Inge
If terror groups are to be defeated, it is national governments that will have to do so. In nations like India, governments will have to call on the patriotism of citizens to fight the terrorists. In a nation like Pakistan, the government will have to be persuaded to deal with those in their midst who are complicit.
~ Bill Kristol
Faith crosses every border and touches every heart in every nation.
~ George W. Bush
Our Nation must defend the sanctity of marriage.
If marriage really is a sacred institution, then why is the government controlling it, especially in a nation that affirms separation of church and state?
~ Tony Campolo
A marriage without conflicts is almost as inconceivable as a nation without crises.
~ André Maurois
The Constitution preserves the advantage of being armed which Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation where the governments are afraid to trust the people with arms.
~ James Madison
We have a great country, we are a great nation - let us trust in it.
~ Felipe Vi Of Spain
On the same line of reasoning, if Australians were to be Australians, or rather if Australians were as separate from any other nation as Australia from any other land, there would be no jealousy between them on England's account.
~ Henry Lawson
My books are elegiac in the sense that they're odes to a nation that even I sometimes think may not exist anymore except in my memory and my imagination.
~ Richard Russo
Remember that a civilized nation cannot just have one party; if there were only one party, this would merely be a dictatorship. Politics could not advance.
~ Sun Yat-Sen
Korea can't become a 'first-class' nation unless regulation and 'a sense of power' disappear. The nation's politics is the fourth-class, bureaucratic are the third-class, and business is the second-class.
~ Lee Kun-Hee
Cyberspace. A consensual hallucination experienced daily by billions of legitimate operators, in every nation, by children being taught mathematical concepts.
~ William Gibson
How can anyone govern a nation that has two hundred and forty-six different kinds of cheese?
~ Charles De Gaulle
Black Americans, no more than white Americans, they do not want more government programs which perpetuate dependency. They don't want to be a colony in a nation.
~ Richard M. Nixon
A government is invigorated when each of us is willing to participate in shaping the future of this nation.
~ Barbara Jordan
Right now, a majority of the debt is owed to foreign interests, Japan being the largest purchaser of government debt today, soon to be surpassed by China as the number one purchaser of our debt in this Nation.
~ Ron Kind
Our nation is built on the bedrock principle that governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed.
~ Adrian Cronauer
He who controls the money supply of a nation controls the nation.
~ James A. Garfield
Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education. The human mind is our fundamental resource.
~ John F. Kennedy
Education is the silver bullet to improve this Nation's standing worldwide... and our teachers know that.
~ Solomon Ortiz
Few things are more important to each individual's future success or to our nation's prosperity than education.
~ Mark Kennedy
The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages is preserved into perpetuity by a nation's proverbs, fables, folk sayings and quotations.
~ William Feather
They are few in the midst of an overwhelming mass of brute force, and their submission is wisdom; but for a nation like England to submit to be robbed by any invader who chooses to visit her shores seemed to me to be nonsense.
~ George Combe
The United States is not a nation to which peace is a necessity.
~ Grover Cleveland
Smoke the pipe of peace, bury the tomahawk, and become one nation.
~ Zebulon Pike
If a nation wants to live in peace with its neighbors, it doesn't keep rattling the saber at them.
~ Howard E. Koch
We are a Nation of peace and compassion, yet these people have and will devote every fiber of their beings to the destruction of Americans and our Country.
~ Charles Bass
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.
~ Marcus Garvey
In my judgment, physical fitness is basic to all forms of excellence and to a strong, confident nation.
~ Robert Kennedy
On the battlefield, the military pledges to leave no soldier behind. As a nation, let it be our pledge that when they return home, we leave no veteran behind.
~ Dan Lipinski
Industry entirely left to itself, would soon fall to ruin, and a nation letting everything alone would commit suicide.
~ Friedrich List
The sooner we get started with alternative energy sources and recognize that fossil fuels makes us less secure as a nation, and more dangerous as a planet, the better off we'll be.
~ Lindsey Graham
Environmental concern is a phenomena that tends to rise in a nation after a certain level of wealth.
~ Ramez Naam
This Nation has realized significant environmental improvements over the last three decades.
~ Jerry Costello
When a nation goes down, or a society perishes, one condition may always be found; they forgot where they came from. They lost sight of what had brought them along.
~ Carl Sandburg
We are all murderers and prostitutes - no matter to what culture, society, class, nation one belongs, no matter how normal, moral, or mature, one takes oneself to be.
~ R. D. Laing
We have a real role in how our own collective lives, our nation, and our world and society turn out. Seizing those opportunities is important, and disasters are sometimes one of those opportunities.
~ Rebecca Solnit
Frivolous lawsuits are booming in this county. The U.S. has more costs of litigation per person than any other industrialized nation in the world, and it is crippling our economy.
~ Jack Kingston
Therefore, if we are a Nation of laws and a Nation of immigrants, immigration should occur within a legal framework, not through the machinations of illegal schemes and scams that threaten our national security.
~ J. D. Hayworth
