Nation Quotes

At many points during our nation's history, there have been times - known in our history textbooks as 'panics' - when adverse conditions affecting the financial and economic sectors of the country have caused individuals to hoard more than they need.

~ Jo Bonner

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

~ George Papandreou

Permanent superiority has never been realized by any nation in history. After the rise comes the fall.

~ Paul Harris

The nation was awakened by that deafening shot.

~ Corazon Aquino

As the third anniversary of the September 11th attacks draws near we must ensure our nation is prepared to handle the continued threat of violence and terrorism on our country.

~ Leonard Boswell

Power without a nation's confidence is nothing.

~ Catherine The Great

Executive power in any nation arguably has more in common with executive power in another country than with the citizens it should serve.

~ Nick Harkaway

Let a nation's fervent thanks make some amends for the toils and sufferings of those who survive.

~ Edward Everett

If we ever forget that we are One Nation Under God, then we will be a nation gone under.

~ Ronald Reagan

As America celebrates Memorial Day, we pay tribute to those who have given their lives in our nation's wars.

~ John M. Mchugh

Over all our happy country - over all our Nation spread, Is a band of noble heroes - is our Army of the Dead.

~ Will Carleton

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

~ Henry Kissinger

There can be no greater error than to expect, or calculate, upon real favors from nation to nation. It is an illusion which experience must cure, which a just pride ought to discard.

~ George Washington

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

~ Charles De Montesquieu

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.

~ Gouverneur Morris

Five decades ago, as India's first prime minister, Jawaharlal Nehru, began visibly ailing, the nation and the world were consumed by the question: 'After Nehru, who?' The inexpressible fear lay in the subtext to the question: 'After Nehru, what?'

~ Shashi Tharoor

A leader who doesn't hesitate before he sends his nation into battle is not fit to be a leader.

~ Golda Meir

The job of nation building, the job of nation leadership in a difficult, complex coalition has worked.

~ Azim Premji

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

~ Dianne Feinstein

Ever since Israel has been a nation the United States has provided the leadership. Every president down to the ages has done this in a fairly balanced way, including George Bush senior, Gerald Ford, and others including myself and Bill Clinton.

~ Jimmy Carter

The person who takes the oath of office in the next four months will shape not just the next four years, but the next forty years of our nation. In these next four years, we need proven leadership, proven judgment and proven values. America needs four more years of President Barack Obama.

~ Rahm Emanuel

California is a very important state. As goes California, so goes the nation. We need to have strong leadership. Someone who can hit the ground running.

~ Xavier Becerra

In the past, the U.S. has shown its capacity to reinvent its gifts for leadership. During the 1970s, in the aftermath of the Nixon abdication and the Ford and Carter presidencies, the whole nation peered into the abyss, was horrified by what it saw and elected Ronald Reagan as president, which began a national resurgence.

~ Paul Johnson

In this nation, leadership is dollars.

~ Norman Lear

Every nation has to either be with us, or against us. Those who harbor terrorists, or who finance them, are going to pay a price.

~ Hillary Clinton

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

~ Mahatma Gandhi

Those who want to reap the benefits of this great nation must bear the fatigue of supporting it.

~ Thomas Paine

One of the great attractions of patriotism - it fulfills our worst wishes. In the person of our nation we are able, vicariously, to bully and cheat. Bully and cheat, what's more, with a feeling that we are profoundly virtuous.

~ Aldous Huxley

Rhetoric is a poor substitute for action, and we have trusted only to rhetoric. If we are really to be a great nation, we must not merely talk; we must act big.

~ Theodore Roosevelt

Germany is a great nation only because its people have so much Polish blood in their veins.

~ Friedrich Nietzsche

The great men of a nation reach out to all mankind. They are unifying, not divisive; internationally conciliating and still great nationally.

~ Gustav Stresemann

Ch'in Shih-huang is the first emperor of China. He united seven separate kingdoms into a single nation. He built the Great Wall and was buried with the terra-cotta soldiers. The Chinese have mixed feelings about him. They're proud of the nation he created, but he was a maniacal tyrant.

~ Gene Luen Yang

The average person doesn't understand what a stem cell is. There's a lack of health literacy in our nation. So the public can't really get into this dialogue because they don't understand the complexity of stem cells, not the faith-based approach, not the ideological or political, but the science behind stem cells.

~ Richard Carmona

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

~ Carl Levin

Access to basic quality health care is one of the most important domestic issues facing our nation.

~ Ed Pastor

The greatness of America lies not in being more enlightened than any other nation, but rather in her ability to repair her faults.

~ Alexis De Tocqueville

When a nation is filled with strife, then do patriots flourish.

~ Lao Tzu

Peasants, who after the liberation of the country became the masters of their lands and their country under the benevolence of Comrade Kim Il Sung, launched the campaigns for increasing agricultural production and donating cereals out of patriotism, and thus faithfully supported the Party's line of nation building.

~ Kim Jong-Un

Patriots don't let their nation default.

~ Gary Ackerman

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

~ Dale Carnegie