Quotes with nation

  • A leader who doesn't hesitate before he sends his nation into battle is not fit to be a leader.
  • Although every step must be taken to protect against a chemical or biological attack in America, our nation would survive the use of those weapons as we did when anthrax was mailed to our Capitol and other targets.
  • We Americans live in a nation where the medical-care system is second to none in the world, unless you count maybe 25 or 30 little scuzzball countries like Scotland that we could vaporize in seconds if we felt like it.
  • As the family goes, so goes the nation and so goes the whole world in which we live.
  • As we search as a nation for constructive ways to challenge racism and white supremacy, it is absolutely essential that progressive female voices gain a hearing.
  • The idea for which this nation stands will not survive if the highest goal free man can set themselves is an amiable mediocrity. Excellence implies striving for the highest standards in every phase of life.
  • Baseball has the largest library of law and lore and custom and ritual, and therefore, in a nation that fundamentally believes it is a nation under law, well, baseball is America's most privileged version of the level field.
  • It is tragic that the Fuehrer should have the whole nation behind him with the single exception of the Army generals. In my opinion it is only by action that they can now atone for their faults of lack of character and discipline.
  • Every thinking person fears nuclear war and every technological nation plans for it. Everyone knows it's madness, and every country has an excuse.
  • The money cost of the reservoir plan literally fades into insignificance when it is compared with the financial burden which the great depression imposed on the nation.
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  • Hunter S. Thompson America is just a nation of two hundred million used car salesmen with all the money we need to buy guns and no qualms about killing anybody else in the world who tries to make us uncomfortable.
    Hunter S. Thompson
    American journalist (1937 - 2005)
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  • John F. Kennedy Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty.
    John F. Kennedy
    American politician (1917 - 1963)
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  • Carl Levin Restoring responsibility and accountability is essential to the economic and fiscal health of our nation.
    Carl Levin
    American attorney (1934 - )
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  • George Bernard Shaw A conquered nation is like a man with cancer: he can think of nothing else.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Golda Meir A leader who doesn't hesitate before he sends his nation into battle is not fit to be a leader.
    Golda Meir
    Prime Minister of Israel (1898 - 1978)
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  • Mahatma Gandhi A nation's culture resides in the hearts and in the soul of its people.
    Mahatma Gandhi
    Indian politician (1869 - 1948)
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  • Jimmy Carter A strong nation, like a strong person, can afford to be gentle, firm, thoughtful, and restrained. It can afford to extend a helping hand to others. It's a weak nation, like a weak person, that must behave with bluster and boasting and rashness and other signs of insecurity.
    Jimmy Carter
    American statesman, 39e President (1924 - )
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  • Georges Clemenceau America is the only nation in history which, miraculously, has gone directly from barbarism to degeneration without the usual interval of civilization.
    Georges Clemenceau
    French physician and politician (1841 - 1929)
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  • George F. Will As advertising blather becomes the nation's normal idiom, language becomes printed noise.
    George F. Will
    American columnist (1941 - )
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  • Adam Schiff Each year on the anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.'s birth, America has the opportunity to reflect on our nation's progress towards the realization of his dream.
    Adam Schiff
    American lawyer and politician (1960 - )
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  • Abraham Lincoln Let reverence for the laws be breathed by every American mother to the lisping babe that prattles on her lap. Let it be taught in schools, in seminaries, and in colleges. Let it be written in primers, spelling books, and in almanacs. Let it be preached from the pulpit, proclaimed in legislative halls, and enforced in the courts of justice. And, in short, let it become the political religion of the nation.
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • Anita Loos That our popular art forms have become so obsessed with sex has turned the U.S.A into a nation of hobbledehoys; as if grown people don't have more vital concerns, such as taxes, inflation, dirty politics, earning a living, getting an education, or keeping out of jail.
    Anita Loos
    American writer, screenwriter (1889 - 1981)
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  • Ben Carson The government is supposed to conform to our will. By taking the most important thing you have, your health and your health care, and turning that over to the government, you fundamentally shift the power, a huge chunk of it, from the people to the government. This is not the direction that we want the government to go in this nation.
    Ben Carson
    American politician, and author (1951 - )
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  • E. B. White The so-called science of poll-taking is not a science at all but mere necromancy. People are unpredictable by nature, and although you can take a nation's pulse, you can't be sure that the nation hasn't just run up a flight of stairs.
    E. B. White
    American writer (1899 - 1985)
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  • Arthur Miller A good newspaper is a nation talking to itself.
    Arthur Miller
    American Dramatist (1915 - 2005)
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  • Arthur Miller A good newspaper, I suppose, is a nation talking to itself.
    Arthur Miller
    American Dramatist (1915 - 2005)
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  • Barbara Jordan A government is invigorated when each of us is willing to participate in shaping the future of this nation.
    Barbara C. Jordan--selected speeches
    Barbara Jordan
    American lawyer, educator and politician (1936 - 1996)
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  • André Maurois A marriage without conflicts is almost as inconceivable as a nation without crises.
    André Maurois
    French writer (ps. van mile Herzog) (1885 - 1967)
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  • Jawaharlal Nehru A moment comes, which comes but rarely in history, when we step out from the old to the new, when an age ends, and when the soul of a nation, long suppressed, finds utterance.
    inaugurele rede 14-8-1947
    Jawaharlal Nehru
    Indian nationalist and statesman (1889 - 1964)
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  • Sydney Smith A nation grown free in a single day is a child born with the limbs and the vigor of a man, who would take a drawn sword for his rattle, and set the house in a blaze that he might chuckle over the splendor.
    Sydney Smith
    English writer and cleric (1856 - 1934)
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