Quotes with nation

Quotes 261 till 280 of 331.

  • Reinhold Niebuhr There is no cure for the pride of a virtuous nation but pure religion.
    Reinhold Niebuhr
    American theologist, historian (1892 - 1971)
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  • Arlen Specter There is no doubt that our nation's security and defeating terrorism trump all other priorities.
    Arlen Specter
    American lawyer, author, and politician (1930 - 2012)
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  • Carly Fiorina There is no job that is America's God-given right anymore. We have to compete for jobs as a nation. Our competitiveness as a nation is not inevitable. It will not just happen. - January 7, 2004.
    Carly Fiorina
    American businesswoman and political (1954 - )
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  • Charles De Montesquieu 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
    French philosopher (1689 - 1755)
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  • Barbara Ehrenreich There seems to be no stopping drug frenzy once it takes hold of a nation. What starts with an innocuous HUGS, NOT DRUGS bumper sticker soon leads to wild talk of shooting dealers and making urine tests a condition for employment - anywhere.
    Barbara Ehrenreich
    American author and political activist (1941 - 2022)
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  • Charles Dudley Warner There was never a nation that became great until it came to the knowledge that it had nowhere in the world to go for help.
    Charles Dudley Warner
    American writer (1829 - 1900)
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  • Barbara Kingsolver There's always a part of your nation's history that you haven't been told that... has a powerful impact on how you yourself may behave and may believe.
    Barbara Kingsolver
    American novelist, essayist and poet (1955 - )
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  • Will Rogers This country has gotten where it is in spite of politics, not by the aid of it. That we have carried as much political bunk as we have and still survived shows we are a super nation.
    Will Rogers
    American actor and humorist (1879 - 1935)
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  • Brooks Atkinson This nation was built by men who took risks - pioneers who were not afraid of the wilderness, business men who were not afraid of failure, scientists who were not afraid of the truth, thinkers who were not afraid of progress, dreamers who were not afraid of action.
    Brooks Atkinson
    American theatre critic (1894 - 1984)
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  • Bill Owens This year, we must address the Colorado Paradox. We have more college degrees per capita than any state. Yet we lag the nation in the percentage of students who go on to higher education.
    Bill Owens
    American photographer (1938 - )
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  • Robert Runcie Those who dare to interpret God's will must never claim Him as an asset for one nation or group rather than another. War springs from the love and loyalty which should be offered to God being applied to some God substitute, one of the most dangerous being nationalism.
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  • Barbara Jordan Throughout out history, when people have looked for new ways to solve their problems, and to uphold the principles of this nation, many times they have turned to political parties. They have often turned to the Democratic Party.
    Speaking the truth with eloquent thunder
    Barbara Jordan
    American lawyer, educator and politician (1936 - 1996)
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  • Adlai Stevenson II To act coolly, intelligently and prudently in perilous circumstances is the test of a man - and also a nation.
    Adlai Stevenson II
    American politician and governor (1900 - 1965)
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  • Ben Bernanke To avoid large and unsustainable budget deficits, the nation will ultimately have to choose among higher taxes, modifications to entitlement programs such as Social Security and Medicare, less spending on everything else from education to defense, or some combination of the above.
    Ben Bernanke
    American economist (1953 - )
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  • Leonard Cohen To every people the land is given on condition. Perceived or not, there is a Covenant, beyond the constitution, beyond sovereign guarantee, beyond the nation's sweetest dreams of itself.
    Leonard Cohen
    Canadian-born American Musician, Songwriter, Singer (1934 - 2016)
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  • Adam Smith To found a great empire for the sole purpose of raising up a people of customers, may at first sight appear a project fit only for a nation of shopkeepers. It is, however, a project altogether unfit for a nation of shopkeepers, but extremely fit for a nation that is governed by shopkeepers.
    Adam Smith
    Scottish Economist (1723 - 1790)
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  • Matthew Prior To John I owed great obligation; but John, unhappily, thought fit to publish it to all the nation: Sure John and I are more than quit.
    Matthew Prior
    British diplomat, poet (1664 - 1721)
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  • Barbara Kingsolver To people who think of themselves as God's houseguests, American enterprise must seem arrogant beyond belief. Or stupid. A nation of amnesiacs, proceeding as if there were no other day but today. Assuming the land could also forget what had been done to it.
    Barbara Kingsolver
    American novelist, essayist and poet (1955 - )
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  • Confucius To put the world in order, we must first put the nation in order; to put the nation in order, we must put the family in order; to put the family in order, we must cultivate our personal life; and to cultivate our personal life, we must first set our hearts right.
    Confucius
    Chinese philosopher (551 - 479)
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  • Thomas Carlyle To reform a world, to reform a nation, no wise man will undertake; and all but foolish men know, that the only solid, though a far slower reformation, is what each begins and perfects on himself.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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