Quotes on Nation

The right of a nation to kill a tyrant in case of necessity can no more be doubted than to hang a robber, or kill a flea.

Author: John Adams

Our nation is today a powerful nation.

Author: Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

The Japanese keenly learned from Western civilisation in a bid to modernize and preserve the nation.

Author: Akihito

If such a young nation as the U.S. could make it to superpower status, we could do it as well.

Author: Ayaan Ali

The U.S. is, so far as I know, the only nation which places such extensive reliance on the polygraph. It has gotten us into a lot of trouble.

Author: Aldrich Ames

The nation was awakened by that deafening shot.

Author: Corazon Aquino

It will, I believe, be everywhere found, that as the clergy are, or are not what they ought to be, so are the rest of the nation.

Author: Jane Austen

However, in recent years our nation has seen a sizable influx of illegal immigration that at best highlights some alarming inadequacies and at worst indicates a broken system.

Author: Spencer Bachus

Creating a nation requires the will of the people!

Author: Edmund Barton

A great poet is the most precious jewel of a nation.

Author: Ludwig Beethoven

We need to get serious about combating gang violence on Long Island, and the entire nation.

Author: Tim Bishop

Hurricane Katrina this past week was certainly the worst episode in what has become an all-too-familiar and tragic cycle, and our nation is now faced with a set of unprecedented challenges.

Author: Jo Bonner

No nation is so great as to be able to afford, in the long run, to remain outside an increasingly universal League of Nations.

Author: Hjalmar Branting

A nation is an organic thing.

Author: Peter Brimelow

And just as there was something of every Vietnamese in Ho Chi Minh so there is something of Ho Chi Minh in almost every present-day Vietnamese, so strong is his imprint on the Vietnamese nation.

Author: Wilfred Burchett

It affords me sincere pleasure to be able to apprise you of the entire removal of the Cherokee Nation of Indians to their new homes west of the Mississippi.

Author: Martin Buren

Our nation must come together to unite.

Author: George Bush

We cannot let terrorists hold this nation hostile or hold our allies hostile.

Author: George Bush

It is clear our nation is reliant upon big foreign oil. More and more of our imports come from overseas.

Author: George Bush

The nation can no longer afford to continue policies that hasten the flight of persons to the distant suburbs.

Author: Jane Byrne

Happy and fortunate indeed would this nation be, nay, completely blessed, if it had good prelates and pastors, and but one prince, and that prince a good one.

Author: Giraldus Cambrensis

We are aware that many national farm organizations are putting forth various plans to provide both short- and long-term relief to our nation's agricultural producers. While we believe long-term solutions are essential, the current situation demands a more immediate response.

Author: Mel Carnahan

Preserving and protecting the state tobacco settlement funds is the nation's Governors highest priority.

Author: Mel Carnahan

We're a nation of liars. But I mean that in the kindest sense.

Author: Neil Cavuto

I'm Chinese-American, of course, and so it's very interesting to see China actually launch their own astronauts, becoming the third nation, following the United States and Russia, to do so.

Author: Leroy Chiao

We are a nation that seeks out solutions and refuses to ignore challenges.

Author: Chris Chocola

India is a geographical term. It is no more a united nation than the Equator.

Author: Winston Churchill

We do not covet anything from any nation except their respect.

Author: Winston Churchill

Social Security is at last on the nation's front burner.

Author: Nick Clooney

We are a better Nation and the world is a safer place because of Ronald Reagan.

Author: Thad Cochran

The nation which forgets its defenders will be itself forgotten.

Author: Calvin Coolidge

I strongly believe that we as a nation can be both secure and free.

Author: Jon Corzine

I was right to back Muhammad Ali, but it caused me major enmity in many areas of this nation.

Author: Howard Cosell

Our nation is built on the bedrock principle that governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed.

Author: Adrian Cronauer

We are a small nation, but strong.

Author: Moshe Dayan

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

Author: Benjamin Disraeli

The Youth of a Nation are the trustees of posterity.

Author: Benjamin Disraeli

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

Author: Friedrich Ebert

A good nation I will make live.

Author: Black Elk

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

Author: Edward Everett

We need to address our Nation's mounting garbage problem by generating less garbage, particularly paper waste.

Author: Wendell Ford

No nation was ever ruined by trade.

Author: Benjamin Franklin

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

Author: Charles Gaulle

I am always the 'good guy,' and I take on the idiotic jerks of the nation.

Author: Wally George

In the wake of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, our nation has been put under considerable fiscal pressure.

Author: Paul Gillmor

Following the devastation of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, $3 per gallon gasoline became common and our nation has come under considerable strain.

Author: Paul Gillmor

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

Author: Jurgen Habermas

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

Author: Lord Halifax

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

Author: Lee Hamilton

The doom of a nation can be averted only by a storm of flowing passion, but only those who are passionate themselves can arouse passion in others.

Author: Adolf Hitler

A nation without dregs and malcontents is orderly, peaceful and pleasant, but perhaps without the seed of things to come.

Author: Eric Hoffer

Arizona now has one of the most innovative systems of financing school construction in the nation.

Author: Jane Hull

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

Author: Thomas Huxley

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.

Author: George Jackson

The atomic bomb certainly is the most powerful of all weapons, but it is conclusively powerful and effective only in the hands of the nation which controls the sky.

Author: Lyndon Johnson

I realized that in those nine seasons I started out at about 225 pounds and I felt, you know, full figured fabulous woman but in those seasons I gained 75 pounds up to over 300 pounds all in front of the nation.

Author: Star Jones

A nation is formed by the willingness of each of us to share in the responsibility for upholding the common good.

Author: Barbara Jordan

I remain attached to my nation.

Author: Lionel Jospin

I always said that Wahhabism is unacceptable for the Chechen nation.

Author: Akhmad Kadyrov

The question is not whether we will be extremists, but what kind of extremists we will be... The nation and the world are in dire need of creative extremists.

Author: Martin King, Jr.

There must be no worse punishment to a totalitarian nation than the withdrawal of capital.

Author: Jerzy Kosinski

Can a nation be free if it oppresses other nations? It cannot.

Author: Vladimir Lenin

No nation ever taxed itself into prosperity.

Author: Rush Limbaugh

Not only is New York City the nation's melting pot, it is also the casserole, the chafing dish and the charcoal grill.

Author: John Lindsay

Our nation's infrastructure needs are tremendous, and they're growing.

Author: Bill Lipinski

Industry entirely left to itself, would soon fall to ruin, and a nation letting everything alone would commit suicide.

Author: Friedrich List

No nation ever yet found any inconvenience from too close an inspection into the conduct of its officers, but many have been brought to ruin and reduced to slavery by suffering gradual impositions and abuses.

Author: Edward Livingston

I am concerned for the security of our great Nation; not so much because of any threat from without, but because of the insidious forces working from within.

Author: Douglas MacArthur

Television has created a nation of news junkies who tune in every night to get their fix on the world.

Author: Robert MacNeil

The achievements we forge in this place and in our nation will not be those of one person or one party.

Author: Paul Martin

A nation that forgets its past can function no better than an individual with amnesia.

Author: David McCullough

In wartime we identify ourselves with the nation, and its interests are the interests of our primal selves.

Author: George Mead

A good newspaper, I suppose, is a nation talking to itself.

Author: Arthur Miller

The price of crude oil accounts for 55 percent of the price of a gallon of gasoline, driven by global supply and demand. The United States depends on foreign sources of oil for 62 percent of our nation's supply. By 2010, this is projected to jump to 75 percent.

Author: Gary Miller

The public lands are a public stock, which ought to be disposed of to the best advantage for the nation.

Author: James Monroe

New York, the nation's thyroid gland.

Author: Christopher Morley

We need to face it, as a nation we have a reliance on petroleum.

Author: Lisa Murkowski

No one can terrorize a whole nation, unless we are all his accomplices.

Author: Edward Murrow

Well, you know, I think in conversations with members of the Senate and others, they all recognize that the issue of immigration is important. It's important to our nation, it's important to our public safety, it's important to our security, it's important to our economic well-being moving forward. And it's not something that's going to go away.

Author: Janet Napolitano

Property that endangers the safety of a nation should not be suffered to remain in the hands of its citizens.

Author: Robert Owen

From 8,000 miles away... I would not judge a fellow soldier from a friendly nation and how they are employing their resources.

Author: Peter Pace

I envision someday a great, peaceful South Africa in which the world will take pride, a nation in which each of many different groups will be making its own creative contribution.

Author: Alan Paton

You cannot speak on behalf of a nation when you have no mandate to do so.

Author: Jean-Marie Pen

While The United States is the most powerful nation the world has ever seen, it is also the most detested nation that the world has ever known.

Author: Harold Pinter

It's nice to say let's be bipartisan. But we're a partisan nation. We were raised as a partisan nation.

Author: Colin Powell

It will be sufficient to point to the enormous burdens which armaments place on the economic, social, and intellectual resources of a nation, as well as on its budget and taxes.

Author: Ludwig Quidde

The United States is historically a nation of immigrants.

Author: Charles Rangel

Whether you are a Democrat or a Republican, our nation is stronger when we are respected throughout the world.

Author: Bill Richardson

Now if there is one thing that we do worse than any other nation, it is try and manage somebody else's affairs.

Author: Will Rogers

The nation that destroys its soil destroys itself.

Author: Franklin Roosevelt

No nation now sets forth to despoil another upon the avowed ground that it desires the spoils.

Author: Elihu Root

It is impossible that the whisper of a faction should prevail against the voice of a nation.

Author: Lord Russell

We have not created any sort of democratic test for any nation.

Author: Mikhail Saakashvili

Are wars anything but the means whereby a nation is nourished, whereby it is strengthened, whereby it is buttressed?

Author: Marquis Sade

Every nation ridicules other nations, and all are right.

Author: Arthur Schopenhauer

My colleagues, while it is good that the Nation is finally focused on the critical issue of securing our ports, our rhetoric and our passion about Dubai must be matched by the funding necessary to keep our ports and our citizens safe.

Author: Allyson Schwartz

Our nation's anti-hunger programs need to be strengthened.

Author: Jose Serrano

Illinois corn farmers are the Nation's number two exporter of feed grains.

Author: John Shimkus

We remain essentially a nation under siege.

Author: Theodore Sorensen

To win in Vietnam, we will have to exterminate a nation.

Author: Benjamin Spock

The nation... doesn't simply need what we have. It needs what we are.

Author: Edith Stein

The general revolt of a Nation cannot be called a Rebellion.

Author: Algernon Sydney

I believe that Clinton is the most wicked and vile President that this nation has ever had.

Author: Randall Terry

Despite the negativity coming from the President's opponents, the United States remains fully committed to assisting the Iraqis in restoring security and rebuilding their nation.

Author: Craig Thomas

There never was and is not likely soon to be a nation of philosophers, nor am I certain it is desirable that there should be.

Author: Henry Thoreau

Yet, Puerto Rico's economic convergence and political integration with the rest of the nation is in a state of arrest - even though the island has been within the national borders, political system and customs territory of the U.S. for a century.

Author: Dick Thornburgh

With options thus foreclosed, in order to protect and defend the nation and clear the obstacles that stood in its path, a decisive appeal to arms was made.

Author: Hideki Tojo

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

Author: Lao Tzu

There is no instance of a nation benefitting from prolonged warfare.

Author: Sun Tzu

We are a communicating nation which needs access to space, access to the seas.

Author: Malcolm Wallop

I head a nation of a million presidents.

Author: Chaim Weizmann

The United States is a nation of laws: badly written and randomly enforced.

Author: Frank Zappa