300 Quotes on Nation

• Conquerors never, never conquer a nation to bring freedom. They brought control.

  Author: Ernst Zundel

• Americans have been taught that their nation is civilized and humane. But, too often, U.S. actions have been uncivilized and inhumane.

  Author: Howard Zinn

• The nation voted us to power to see unity and communal harmony, not for any division or communality.

  Author: Khaleda Zia

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

  Author: Frank Zappa

• The economic, social and cultural progress of a nation depends on citizens counting for more and having more rights.

  Author: Jose Zapatero

• The conviction of our Ukrainian nation is embedded in the pages of its history.

  Author: Viktor Yushchenko

• We are determined that our nation shall cease to be a burden on other countries but shall contribute positively to world prosperity, while observing fully the fair trade practices in international commerce.

  Author: Shigeru Yoshida

• We will not fail your expectations of us as a new nation dedicated to peace, democracy, and freedom.

  Author: Shigeru Yoshida

• Sometimes the way you respond to horrific, evil deeds is the measure of one's self as a man, as a nation, as people, as a community.

  Author: James Woods

• Thanks to the heroic sons and daughters of this country, who have paid sacrifices, we have been able to score a number of victories which are encouraging the nation-building process we are engaged in.

  Author: Girma Woldegiorgis

• I would rather belong to a poor nation that was free than to a rich nation that had ceased to be in love with liberty.

  Author: Woodrow Wilson

• Sometimes people call me an idealist. Well, that is the way I know I am an American. America is the only idealistic nation in the world.

  Author: Woodrow Wilson

• A comprehensive national energy policy is critical to our nation's economy and our national security. Energy expenditures account for about 7% percent of our total economy and influence pricing in the much of the rest of the economy.

  Author: Heather Wilson

• That co-operation and peace rather than industrial strife and strikes will best promote the prosperity of the employees the company and all of the people and even strengthen the nation.

  Author: Charles Wilson

• In every community, there is work to be done. In every nation, there are wounds to heal. In every heart, there is the power to do it.

  Author: Marianne Williamson

• I travel Europe every couple of weeks. I just came back from London, Holland and Denmark. Every nation on this planet has its issues with race, and I am not sure if everyone has figured out how to deal with it.

  Author: Montel Williams

• If you seek Hamilton's monument, look around. You are living in it. We honor Jefferson, but live in Hamilton's country, a mighty industrial nation with a strong central government.

  Author: George Will

• As advertising blather becomes the nation's normal idiom, language becomes printed noise.

  Author: George Will

• America is a giving nation and very compassionate.

  Author: David Wilkerson

• Our nation is being led astray by ungodly judges, mayors and governors, who are given to change, defying the Constitution and substituting their own wicked agendas.

  Author: David Wilkerson

• We know that we are not collectively guilty, so how can we accuse any other nation, no matter what some of its people have done, of being collectively guilty?

  Author: Simon Wiesenthal

• A nation's ability to fight a modern war is as good as its technological ability.

  Author: Frank Whittle

• But the Bible speaks against it, and because the Bible speaks against it, we allow rampant sin including homosexuality and lying, and to me lying is just as b ad as homosexuality, and we've allowed this sin to run rampant in our nation.

  Author: Reggie White

• Every Arab nation votes against us at least two thirds of the time.

  Author: Paul Weyrich

• But the threat posed by the radical Islamists represents an unusual conflict, unlike any experienced by our nation before: we face an enemy that is not a state.

  Author: Paul Weyrich

• The kind of national goal we ought to be thinking about is way beyond national product - it is how do we as a nation help our children be the best kinds of people they could possibly be?

  Author: Paul Wellstone

• No nation, savage or civilized, save only the United States of America, has confessed its inability to protect its women save by hanging, shooting, and burning alleged offenders.

  Author: Ida Wells

• The War has been waged with success, although there have been in some instances errors and misfortunes. But the heart of the nation is sounder and its hopes brighter.

  Author: Gideon Welles

• The ones the listeners loved most of all in those early years were the four Lennon girls who became the whole nation's little sisters.

  Author: Lawrence Welk

• I head a nation of a million presidents.

  Author: Chaim Weizmann

• In the Federal Government, electronic records are as indispensable as their paper counterparts for documenting citizens' rights, the actions for which officials are accountable, and the nation's history.

  Author: Allen Weinstein

• Here rests the soul of our nation - here also should be our conscience.

  Author: Caspar Weinberger

• A self-respecting nation is ready for anything, including war, except for a renunciation of its option to make war.

  Author: Simone Weil

• If we had a hydrogen economy worldwide, every nation on earth could create its own energy source to support its economy, and the threat of war over diminishing resources would just evaporate.

  Author: Dennis Weaver

• The truth is that Oxford is simply a very beautiful city in which it is convenient to segregate a certain number of the young of the nation while they are growing up.

  Author: Evelyn Waugh

• It is our duty to watch over the actions and activities of this government and to insist that, in words as well as in deeds, the interests of our constituency primarily and of the Nation ultimately are served.

  Author: Diane Watson

• The abuse of detainees in U.S. custody has severely undermined our Nation's position in the world.

  Author: Diane Watson

• This nation has always struggled with how it was going to deal with poor people and people of color. Every few years you will see some great change in the way that they approach this. We've had the war on poverty that never really got into waging a real war on poverty.

  Author: Maxine Waters

• It is impossible to rightly govern a nation without God and the Bible.

  Author: George Washington

• 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.

  Author: George Washington

• We're a nation of laws, but the good thing about America, is that laws reside in the people and people can change the laws.

  Author: Rick Warren

• If Nixon is not forced to turn over tapes of his conversations with the ring of men who were conversing on their violations of the law, then liberty will soon be dead in this nation.

  Author: Earl Warren

• The most tragic paradox of our time is to be found in the failure of nation-states to recognize the imperatives of internationalism.

  Author: Earl Warren

• The very heart of being a sovereign nation is providing security of one's borders, of one's internal situation, and security against anyone attacking one's nation. That is the very heart of what I believe is sovereignty.

  Author: John Warner

• Tragically, the effort to make America and the world safer and to defend freedom around the world is not without an enormous cost to this Nation in terms primarily of lost lives and those who bear the scars and the wounds of war, and their families who must bear these losses.

  Author: John Warner

• There was never a nation great until it came to the knowledge that it had nowhere in the world to go for help.

  Author: Charles Warner

• That was one of the great successes of removing Saddam Hussein, as we took Iraq out of the picture of having a sovereign nation from which the terrorists could operate. But this war has not gone perfectly.

  Author: Zach Wamp

• Before I begin talking about the threats we face, the vulnerabilities that we have, and frankly the courage of the men and women in uniform that stand in harm's way on behalf of a very grateful Nation, let me first honor the sacrifices of September 11.

  Author: Zach Wamp

• We must never forget or diminish the sacrifices of those who gave everything for this nation.

  Author: Jim Walsh

• Never, since the fall of communism, has it been so abundantly clear that an ethos exists, which is loath to accept the freedoms and prosperity we hold sacred in this nation.

  Author: Jim Walsh

• For as long as this nation has known war, we have embraced the heroes it has produced.

  Author: Jim Walsh

• For as long as this nation has known war, we have embraced the heroes it has produced. Americans have rightfully noted the honor and nobility of courage under hostile fire and thanked those who perished in their defense.

  Author: James Walsh

• It graduates to 'our state is better than your state,' and 'our nation is better than your nation.' And it circles all the way around to where it started: 'Our God is better than your God.'

  Author: Neale Walsch

• I was told to challenge every spiritual teacher, every world leader to utter the one sentence that no religion, no political party, and no nation on the face of the earth will dare utter: 'Ours is not a better way, ours is merely another way.

  Author: Neale Walsch

• And here a most heinous charge is made, that the nation has been burdened with unnecessary expenses for the sole purpose of preventing the discharge of our debts and the abolition of taxes.

  Author: Robert Walpole

• We are a studying nation. Scholarship from science is important to the whole world and those people need to be able to be safe and secure in what they do.

  Author: Malcolm Wallop

• Finally we are a nation with some conscience. It means alliances are extremely important when they're based on a national interest. We have to have the ability to sustain our presence within those alliances.

  Author: Malcolm Wallop

• We don't need a nation that has national identity cards.

  Author: Malcolm Wallop

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

  Author: Malcolm Wallop

• The ultimate end is a nation that lies under the concept of the Declaration of Indepen dence. The Declaration of Independence is such an extraordinary statement - it was designed by people skeptical of government, local or national, but in particular national.

  Author: Malcolm Wallop

• But when we place God on our side of things, that we are now ridding the world of evil - that's very dangerous, that one nation has this role to rid the world of evil. What about the evil we have committed, that we are complicit in?

  Author: Jim Wallis

• As a nation we have the right to decide our own affairs, to mould our own future. This does not pose any danger to anybody. Our nation is fully aware of the responsibility for its own fate in the complicated situation of the contemporary world.

  Author: Lech Walesa

• I belong to a nation which over the past centuries has experienced many hardships and reverses. The world reacted with silence or with mere sympathy when Polish frontiers were crossed by invading armies and the sovereign state had to succumb to brutal force.

  Author: Lech Walesa

• I most sincerely wish that the world in which we live be free from the threat of a nuclear holocaust and from the ruinous arms race. It is my cherished desire that peace be not separated from freedom which is the right of every nation. This I desire and for this I pray.

  Author: Lech Walesa

• The sole and basic source of our strength is the solidarity of workers, peasants and the intelligentsia, the solidarity of the nation, the solidarity of people who seek to live in dignity, truth, and in harmony with their conscience.

  Author: Lech Walesa

• The hope of the nation which throughout the nineteenth century had not for a moment reconciled itself with the loss of independence, and fighting for its own freedom, fought at the same time for the freedom of other nations.

  Author: Lech Walesa

• My youth passed at the time of the country's reconstruction from the ruins and ashes of the war in which my nation never bowed to the enemy paying the highest price in the struggle.

  Author: Lech Walesa

• With the increasing demand for oil around the world and the rising costs in Oregon and throughout the nation, we must focus on the development of alternate energy sources, especially those that are clean, efficient and renewable.

  Author: Greg Walden

• As the GAO report recognizes, the long-term health of our forests relies on additional fuel reduction options and funding to reduce the risks that catastrophic fire poses to our nation's ecosystems, communities and federal budgetary resources.

  Author: Greg Walden

• The art of government is to make two-thirds of a nation pay all it possibly can pay for the benefit of the other third.

  Author: Voltaire

• We are witnessing a slow, steady takeover of our true freedoms. We are becoming a socialist nation, and whoever can't see this is probably hoping it isn't true. If we permit Mr. Obama to take over all our industries, if we permit him to raise our taxes to support unconstitutional causes, then we will be in default. This great America will become a paralyzed nation.

  Author: Jon Voight

• On 16 September 1985, when the Commerce Department announced that the United States had become a debtor nation, the American Empire died.

  Author: Gore Vidal

• Common sense is judgment without reflection, shared by an entire class, an entire nation, or the entire human race.

  Author: Giambattista Vico

• The basic dream of many Colombians is to have a secure nation, without exclusions, with equity, and without hatred.

  Author: Alvaro Velez

• President Ford was a devoted, decent man of impeccable integrity who put service to his country before his own self interest. He helped heal our nation during a time of crisis, provided steady leadership and restored people's faith in the presidency and in government.

  Author: Mark Udall

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

  Author: Sun Tzu

• Govern a great nation as you would cook a small fish. Do not overdo it.

  Author: Lao Tzu

• Governing a great nation is like cooking a small fish - too much handling will spoil it.

  Author: Lao Tzu

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

  Author: Lao Tzu

• I had faith in Israel before it was established, I have in it now. I believe it has a glorious future before it - not just another sovereign nation, but as an embodiment of the great ideals of our civilization.

  Author: Harry Truman

• The state has no business in the bedrooms of the nation.

  Author: Pierre Trudeau

• From this bestial view that the human mind consists of only sense certainty, pleasure and pain, Locke developed an equally bestial theory of the nation. Man originally existed in a State of Nature of complete liberty.

  Author: Robert Trout

• But how odd that in this heathen nation of empty pews, where churches' bare, ruined choirs are converted into luxury loft living, a Labour government - yes, a Labour government - is deliberately creating a huge expansion of faith schools.

  Author: Polly Toynbee

• 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

• From the point of the view of the nation's power, it was obvious that while we were fighting the Sino-Japanese war, every effort was to be made to avoid adding to our enemies and opening additional fronts.

  Author: Hideki Tojo

• All those who seek to destroy the liberties of a democratic nation ought to know that war is the surest and shortest means to accomplish it.

  Author: Alexis Tocqueville

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

  Author: Alexis Tocqueville

• In fact, there are more homeowners today than ever before in the history of our Nation and more minority homeowners than ever before in the history of our Nation.

  Author: Todd Tiahrt

• Today, there are more Americans working than ever before in the history of our Nation, and the average wage of those workers is higher than it has ever been in the history of our Nation.

  Author: Todd Tiahrt

• I am shocked by the easy attitude of many in the media towards disclosing our Nation's secrets.

  Author: Todd Tiahrt

• I fully recognize and appreciate the many substantial contributions of black Americans and other minorities to the creation and preservation and development of our great nation.

  Author: Strom Thurmond

• The white people of the South are the greatest minority in this nation. They deserve consideration and understanding instead of the persecution of twisted propaganda.

  Author: Strom Thurmond

• The nation that complacently and fearfully allows its artists and writers to become suspected rather than respected is no longer regarded as a nation possessed with humor or depth.

  Author: James Thurber

• I believe our flag is more than just cloth and ink. It is a universally recognized symbol that stands for liberty, and freedom. It is the history of our nation, and it's marked by the blood of those who died defending it.

  Author: John Thune

• 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

• No other date on the calendar more potently symbolizes all that our nation stands for than the Fourth of July.

  Author: Mac Thornberry

• 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

• America... 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.

  Author: Hunter Thompson

• Medicare debates in Congress should result in better Medicare benefits for all our nation's seniors. We're not asking for special treatment for rural America, just a fair deal.

  Author: Bennie Thompson

• Sending our young men and women into battle is perhaps the most serious course of action a Nation can undertake.

  Author: Bennie Thompson

• 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

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

  Author: Randall Terry

• America should function as a Christian nation.

  Author: Randall Terry

• We are the most powerful nation in the world, but we're not the only nation in the world. We are not the only people in the world. We are an important people, the wealthiest, the most powerful and, to a great extent, generous. But we are part of the world.

  Author: Studs Terkel

• Preemption is the right of any nation in order to preserve its National Security; however, preemptive war is a tactic, not a strategy. When used as a strategy preemption dilutes diplomacy, creates an atmosphere of distrust, and promotes regional instability.

  Author: Ellen Tauscher

• To be called a sovereign nation, a nation has to be able to control its own borders. It is controlling your own destiny in a way, and we don't control our own borders.

  Author: Tom Tancredo

• This issue, if not addressed, leaves any President, including George Bush, open to the criticism that they are essentially ignoring the destruction of the nation and I believe that with all my heart.

  Author: Tom Tancredo

• The Kurdish people have the right of self-determination like every other nation in the world.

  Author: Jalal Talabani

• And it seems to me important for a country, for a nation to certainly know about its glorious achievements but also to know where its ideals failed, in order to keep that from happening again.

  Author: George Takei

• We stand strong together - as Americans - many cultures, races and faiths, but one nation under God.

  Author: Bob Taft

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

  Author: Algernon Sydney

• I never saw, heard, nor read, that the clergy were beloved in any nation where Christianity was the religion of the country. Nothing can render them popular, but some degree of persecution.

  Author: Jonathan Swift

• The minister of the Gospel is really the yardstick by which the nation measures its morals.

  Author: Jimmy Swaggart

• Now is the time for us to strike. We must strengthen our foothold in Asia, to ensure no nation overtakes us.

  Author: Larry Summers

• We have seen... that, although England is by far the richest nation of Europe, we have already outstripped her in the race after wealth, and we have only begun the development of our vast resources.

  Author: Josiah Strong

• To walk behind others on a road you are traveling together, to give precedence to others without envy - this is painful for an individual and painful for a nation.

  Author: Gustav Stresemann

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

  Author: Gustav Stresemann

• Nothing is more misleading to the youth of a nation than to state the outcome immediately after the beginning as if nothing could have taken place in between.

  Author: Gustav Stresemann

• Nothing in the reporting of a nation's history could so mislead the younger generation as to represent great events in such a way that they appear to have happened as a matter of course.

  Author: Gustav Stresemann

• When Louis XIV assumed the reins of government France suddenly and wonderfully came to her maturity; it was as if the whole nation had burst into splendid flower.

  Author: Lytton Strachey

• When the French nation gradually came into existence among the ruins of the Roman civilization in Gaul, a new language was at the same time slowly evolved.

  Author: Lytton Strachey

• To act coolly, intelligently and prudently in perilous circumstances is the test of a man - and also a nation.

  Author: Adlai Stevenson

• I do have concerns about the current efforts to restructure our nation's intelligence community.

  Author: Ted Stevens

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

  Author: Edith Stein

• Many writers upon the science of political economy have declared that it is the duty of a nation first to encourage the creation of wealth; and second, to direct and control its distribution. All such theories are delusive.

  Author: Leland Stanford

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

  Author: Benjamin Spock

• There is no doubt that our nation's security and defeating terrorism trump all other priorities.

  Author: Arlen Specter

• No nation as young as America can be expected to become immediately a power in the arts.

  Author: John Sousa

• I was raised in a Bronx public housing project, but studied at two of the nation's finest universities. I did work as an assistant district attorney, prosecuting violent crimes that devastate our communities.

  Author: Sonia Sotomayor

• We are the most powerful nation on earth. No external power, no terrorist organization, can defeat us. But we can defeat ourselves by getting caught in a quagmire.

  Author: George Soros

• We remain essentially a nation under siege.

  Author: Theodore Sorensen

• With the help of dedicated Americans from our party, every party, and no party at all, I intend to mount that stairway to preach peace for our nation and world.

  Author: Theodore Sorensen

• Literature transmits incontrovertible condensed experience... from generation to generation. In this way literature becomes the living memory of a nation.

  Author: Alexander Solzhenitsyn

• Literature becomes the living memory of a nation.

  Author: Alexander Solzhenitsyn

• Woe to that nation whose literature is cut short by the intrusion of force. This is not merely interference with freedom of the press but the sealing up of a nation's heart, the excision of its memory.

  Author: Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

• There is nothing left now for us but to get ever deeper and deeper into debt to the banking system in order to provide the increasing amounts of money the nation requires for its expansion and growth.

  Author: Frederick Soddy

• The United States spends more money on African aid than any nation on earth.

  Author: Tony Snow

• We believe. We believe in our destiny as a nation. We believe we have been called to do good, to spread the blessings of liberty and encourage the sense of trust upon which free societies depend.

  Author: Tony Snow

• The dissolution of the nation destroys the national religion, and dethrones the national deity.

  Author: William Smith

• The god can no more exist without his people than the nation without its god.

  Author: William Smith

• We are so accustomed to think of religion as a thing between individual men and God that we can hardly enter into the idea of a religion in which a whole nation in its national organisation appears as the religious unit.

  Author: William Smith

• The more energy-efficient we become as a nation, the less we need to develop additional energy sources.

  Author: Lamar Smith

• This nation loves singing and loves acting.

  Author: Kate Smith

• Jamestown changed the world in many ways, but perhaps it shaped our nation most profoundly the day Africans arrived. I can't think of a more relevant place to talk about the issues facing our community today than the place where African culture became American culture.

  Author: Tavis Smiley

• My personal assessment is that Dr. King is the greatest American we have ever produced. I can argue for Lincoln, I can argue for FDR, but for my money, King is the greatest American we have ever produced. His only weapon was love. He transforms a nation, transforms the world with one weapon and that of course being again the weapon of love. So that for me, King is the quintessential example of everything that I could ever want to be in my lifetime.

  Author: Tavis Smiley

• If ever we had proof that our nation's pollution laws aren't working, it's reading the list of industrial chemicals in the bodies of babies who have not yet lived outside the womb.

  Author: Louise Slaughter

• Women in the service put themselves in harms way to protect us and our Nation from threats at home and abroad. The least we can do is ensure they are protected when facing a horrible tragedy.

  Author: Louise Slaughter

• In the three years since our nation began operations in Iraq, more than 2,500 Americans have been killed and more than 18,000 Americans have been seriously wounded.

  Author: Ike Skelton

• Farmers in Missouri and across the country must comply with a variety of federal, state, and local regulations as they grow the crops and raise the livestock that we depend on to feed the nation and the world.

  Author: Ike Skelton

• During the 2000 election, the current administration told our military, help is on the way. That is clearly not the case. The administration has failed to request the funds needed for the defense of this Nation. We must give the Army what it needs.

  Author: Ike Skelton

• Congress must make it clear that common animal waste will not expose farmers to liability under Superfund, while ensuring continued action to clean up legitimate hazardous waste sites around the nation.

  Author: Ike Skelton

• It means that, in fact, it's - whether fascist is the right word I don't know - more of a plutocracy than anything resembling a democracy; it has become a nation controlled by a very small, very wealthy elite.

  Author: Peter Singer

• One of the strengths of our nation has always been a strong middle class who could afford their own homes and send their children to school.

  Author: James Sinegal

• The original PATRIOT Act greatly increased our nation's ability to share intelligence information, made better use of technology, and provided terrorism investigators tools that have long been available in cases involving illegal drugs and organized crime.

  Author: Michael Simpson

• While I recognize the great value and importance of prescription drugs and strongly support a continued U.S. focus on pharmaceutical research and development, our nation's seniors cannot be asked to subsidize the drug costs of other wealthy industrialized nations any longer.

  Author: Michael Simpson

• While nothing is certain, I firmly believe our nation is on the verge of a nuclear energy renaissance.

  Author: Michael Simpson

• Nor was it only from the millions of slaves that chains had been removed; the whole nation had been in bondage; free speech had been suppressed.

  Author: Matthew Simpson

• The nation should have a tax system that looks like someone designed it on purpose.

  Author: William Simon

• We're quickly moving to the point where we will have no military bases in the Northeast, and this undermines support for the military. We are a nation of citizen soldiers.

  Author: Rob Simmons

• I will devote my body and soul to the service of the people and the nation.

  Author: Norodom Sihamoni

• The strength of a nation, especially of a republican nation, is in the intelligent and well ordered homes of the people.

  Author: Lydia Sigourney

• Rosa Parks was a woman of strength, conviction, and morality. Her action on December 1, 1955, to defy the law made her a leading figure in our nation's civil rights history.

  Author: John Shimkus

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

  Author: John Shimkus

• In the 2004 presidential election, we saw a wonderful example of citizens making contributions. In fact, individual giving to both the Kerry and Bush campaigns was the highest in our nation's history.

  Author: Mark Shields

• Wayne Downing is also a great leader, has served our nation very well, and I think it's great that he's coming back to join a very capable administration already of dealing with this problem, and it will just strengthen that team.

  Author: Hugh Shelton

• Saddam Hussein has been tenacious in his pursuit of weapons of mass destruction and, unless he is removed from power, he will eventually harm our nation and our allies. Every moment we delay allows him to grow stronger.

  Author: Richard Shelby

• The romantic idea is that everybody around a writer must suffer for his talent. I think a writer is a citizen of humanity, part of his nation, part of his family. He may have to make some compromises.

  Author: Irwin Shaw

• No one can compare us to the apartheid regime. It's not like in South Africa between the blacks and the whites who belong to the same nation, or in Berlin where you find parents living on the eastern side and their children in the western side.

  Author: Silvan Shalom

• We can't afford as a nation - not because of money but because of our social fabric - to have large numbers of people who are not working.

  Author: Donna Shalala

• It is true, indeed, that the national domain is ours. It is true it was acquired by the valor and with the wealth of the whole nation. But we hold, nevertheless, no arbitrary power over it.

  Author: William Seward

• Sir, there is no Christian nation, thus free to choose as we are, which would establish slavery.

  Author: William Seward

• The goal of this Nation, I so strongly believe, is to be a preeminent world power. We have to understand what comes with that: The responsibility to be strong.

  Author: Jeff Sessions

• As the 109th Congress continues to debate legislation that will affect the lives of immigrants, it is important for us to remember that we are a nation of immigrants.

  Author: Jose Serrano

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

  Author: Jose Serrano

• Despite the state of denial exhibited by most Democrats, Americans all across the nation acknowledge that changes are necessary to preserve Social Security for today's younger workers.

  Author: Jim Sensenbrenner

• It is all too evident that our nation, and the governments of other countries, require all the help they can get in order to fight the War on Terrorism against people who have no qualms about taking the lives of innocent men, women, and children.

  Author: Jim Sensenbrenner

• Outside the kingdom of the Lord there is no nation which is greater than any other. God and history will remember your judgment.

  Author: Haile Selassie

• Law in general is human reason, inasmuch as it governs all the inhabitants of the earth: the political and civil laws of each nation ought to be only the particular cases in which human reason is applied.

  Author: Charles Secondat

• If I knew of something that could serve my nation but would ruin another, I would not propose it to my prince, for I am first a man and only then a Frenchman... because I am necessarily a man, and only accidentally am I French.

  Author: Charles Secondat

• The men and women who serve this great nation, whether they are stationed in Iraq, Fort Riley, or the Korean Peninsula, or they serve us at home as our community first responders, serve because they believe in America.

  Author: Kathleen Sebelius

• We have by far the most expensive health system in the world. We spend 50 percent more per person than the next most costly nation. Americans spend more on health care than housing or food.

  Author: Kathleen Sebelius

• What the guys have learned is that whether you're preaching to one or 10,000, it really doesn't matter. That one person you touch may change the nation - could be the Billy Graham of Ethiopia.

  Author: Michael Scott

• We can continue our progress as a Nation toward the promise that all people are created equal and that our Nation will treat every person in that spirit.

  Author: Bobby Scott

• Israel is now sustaining a war for its own existence. A nation defending its citizens against terrorist bombings and a military and diplomatic onslaught by an array of Arab foes is practicing survival, not genocide.

  Author: Jack Schwartz

• It would be hard to ignore the absence of democracy in any Arab nation.

  Author: Jack Schwartz

• 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

• In a brave new world, a post-September 11 world, anyone is going to make certain mistakes. The mistakes that have been made on homeland security, on protecting our Nation from another terrorist attack, are mistakes of omission. We are simply not doing enough.

  Author: Charles Schumer

• Every nation ridicules other nations, and all are right.

  Author: Arthur Schopenhauer

• National character is only another name for the particular form which the littleness, perversity and baseness of mankind take in every country. Every nation mocks at other nations, and all are right.

  Author: Arthur Schopenhauer

• The German national character is a favorite subject of character experts, probably because the less mature a nation, the more she is an object of criticism and not of history.

  Author: Karl Schlegel

• Worthless is the nation that does not gladly stake its all on its honor.

  Author: Friedrich Schiller

• Much has changed since the end of the Cold War that augurs well for the survival of our nation.

  Author: 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.

  Author: Adam Schiff

• 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.

  Author: Adam Schiff

• As grateful as we are for all the work the community health centers do, it is also important that we recognize that they cannot solve the health care crisis facing our Nation by themselves.

  Author: Jan Schakowsky

• Since the birth of our Nation, no other right has been more important than having the ability to vote. Unfortunately, as history has shown, the denial of this right to minorities is a scar on our system of democracy.

  Author: Jan Schakowsky

• Through educational programming, Jewish American History Month will help raise the awareness of a people, their history and contributions. It will help combat anti-Semitism, a phenomenon that is on the rise and that unfortunately still exists in our Nation.

  Author: Jan Schakowsky

• Many years before I had left a beautiful country and a rich nation and I returned to that country six years later to find it fundamentally changed and in a state of upheaval, and in great spiritual and material need.

  Author: Fritz Sauckel

• Our nation's blood supply is safer than it's ever been, and it's getting safer as we speak.

  Author: David Satcher

• Every age has its own poetry; in every age the circumstances of history choose a nation, a race, a class to take up the torch by creating situations that can be expressed or transcended only through poetry.

  Author: Jean-Paul Sartre

• America's Older Americans add great value to our Nation.

  Author: Paul Sarbanes

• 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.

  Author: Carl Sandburg

• I have always said there is only one thing that can bring our nation down - our dependence on foreign countries for food and energy. Agriculture is the backbone of our economy.

  Author: John Salazar

• It shouldn't take an emergency for this Administration to deal with the health care needs of our nation's heroes. Funding the VA and our bringing our troops home safely should never be treated as an afterthought.

  Author: John Salazar

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

  Author: Marquis Sade

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

  Author: Mikhail Saakashvili

• The United States is not a nation based upon race, creed, or religion - we are a nation based upon our loyalty and allegiance to our country and her principles.

  Author: Jim Ryun

• Skyrocketing insurance premiums are debilitating our Nation's health care delivery system and liability insurers are either leaving the market or raising rates to excessive levels.

  Author: Jim Ryun

• If you're running for president, you've got to do a lot of things to line up a candidacy. I've not done any of those things. It's not my plan. My plan is to be a good chairman of the House Budget Committee and fight for the fiscal sanity of this nation.

  Author: Paul Ryan

• By failing seriously to confront the most predicable economic crisis in our nation's history, the President's policies are committing us and our children to a diminished future.

  Author: Paul Ryan

• This debt crisis coming to our country. The wall and tidal wave of debt that is befalling our nation. Medicare and Social Security go bankrupt within ten years, we have a debt that is looming so high that in the last year of President Obama's budget just the interest payments on our debt is $916 billion dollars.

  Author: Paul Ryan

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

  Author: Lord Russell

• Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation can be trusted to act humanely or to think sanely under the influence of a great fear.

  Author: Bertrand Russell

• What do we, as a nation, care about books? How much do you think we spend altogether on our libraries, public or private, as compared with what we spend on our horses?

  Author: John Ruskin

• Within our culture, every school has a swimming pool. We lived on the coast. People swam in the surf. It's a very sporty nation and at that particular time anyone who had an artistic bent was very much an outsider. So if you liked reading or ideas or playing the piano then your dad viewed you as a sissy, basically.

  Author: Geoffrey Rush

• Those who dare to interpret God's will must never claim Him as an asset for one nation or group rather than another.

  Author: Robert Runcie

• Impeachment is not a remedy for private wrongs; it's a method of removing someone whose continued presence in office would cause grave danger to the nation.

  Author: Charles Ruff

• Unfortunately our nation, nay, our world, is run by evil morons.

  Author: Rudy Rucker

• 2010 is not just a choice between Republicans and Democrats. 2010 is not just a choice between liberals and conservatives. 2010 is a referendum on the very identity of our nation.

  Author: Marco Rubio

• There's never been a nation like the United States, ever. It begins with the principles of our founding documents, principles that recognize that our rights come from God, not from our government.

  Author: Marco Rubio

• Permit me to issue and control the money of a nation, and I care not who makes its laws.

  Author: Mayer Rothschild

• Give me control of a nation's money and I care not who makes her laws.

  Author: Mayer Rothschild

• Nothing is more important in the preservation of peace than to secure among the great mass of the people living under constitutional government a just conception of the rights which their nation has against others and of the duties their nation owes to others.

  Author: Elihu Root

• The theoretical postulate of all diplomatic discussion between nations is the assumed willingness of every nation to do justice.

  Author: Elihu Root

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

  Author: Elihu Root

• 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.

  Author: Theodore Roosevelt

• Human kindness has never weakened the stamina or softened the fiber of a free people. A nation does not have to be cruel to be tough.

  Author: Franklin Roosevelt

• A nation that destroys its soils destroys itself. Forests are the lungs of our land, purifying the air and giving fresh strength to our people.

  Author: Franklin Roosevelt

• In our personal ambitions we are individualists. But in our seeking for economic and political progress as a nation, we all go up or else all go down as one people.

  Author: Franklin Roosevelt

• Those newspapers of the nation which most loudly cried dictatorship against me would have been the first to justify the beginnings of dictatorship by somebody else.

  Author: Franklin Roosevelt

• The nation that destroys its soil destroys itself.

  Author: Franklin Roosevelt

• Massachusetts children cannot only lead the nation in test scores, they can be competitive with the best in the world. And the gap in achievement among races can virtually disappear.

  Author: Mitt Romney

• And the American people are the greatest people in the world. What makes America the greatest nation in the world is the heart of the American people: hardworking, innovative, risk-taking, God- loving, family-oriented American people.

  Author: Mitt Romney

• We reserve our deepest respect and admiration for those who volunteer for service and give their lives to help keep our nation secure.

  Author: Mitt Romney

• This nation has been drifting back in comparison with the rest of the world for the last 20 years in education.

  Author: Roy Romer

• 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

• On account of being a democracy and run by the people, we are the only nation in the world that has to keep a government four years, no matter what it does.

  Author: Will Rogers

• America is a nation that conceives many odd inventions for getting somewhere but it can think of nothing to do once it gets there.

  Author: Will Rogers

• I have a scheme for stopping war. It's this - no nation is allowed to enter a war till they have paid for the last one.

  Author: Will Rogers

• As an integral part of the Department of Agriculture, the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service monitors our Nation's agriculture to protect against agricultural pests and diseases.

  Author: Mike Rogers

• In our post-9/11 world, our Nation's military deserves, at least the same access to institutions of higher education that any other major employer might enjoy.

  Author: Mike Rogers

• Only when every one of us and every nation learns the secret of love for all mankind will the world become a great orchestra, following the beat of the Greatest Conductor of all.

  Author: Artur Rodzinski

• I yearn to see other chief executives throughout the nation follow suit, so that as a people we may hasten the elimination of barbarism as a tool of American justice.

  Author: Winthrop Rockefeller

• I cite in my book countless examples of the foundational documents of the colonial period in America and the writings of the leaders, that this was intended to be a Christian nation.

  Author: Pat Robertson

• Are we a Christian nation now? It's doubtful. But did we start out as one? Without question.

  Author: Pat Robertson

• And these things are pretty much foundational: thou shall not kill, steal, bear false witness. All these things are embedded into the laws we enjoy in our nation.

  Author: Pat Robertson

• The founding document of the United States of America acknowledges the Lordship of Jesus Christ because we are a Christian nation.

  Author: Pat Robertson

• Security for agriculture merits serious concern by not only the agricultural community but our nation as a whole. The risk to the U.S. food supply and overall economy is real.

  Author: Pat Roberts

• A good man, though he will value his own countrymen, yet will think as highly of the worthy men of every nation under the sun.

  Author: Samuel Richardson

• The little words in the Republic of Letters, like the little folks in a nation, are the most useful and significant.

  Author: Samuel Richardson

• This anniversary serves to help remind the American people that, in the wake of one of the greatest political scandals and misuse of power in our history as a nation, scandal produced important reforms that served this nation well for two decades.

  Author: Elliot Richardson

• It often seemed like we had become a nation where the only heroes were rock singers and ball players and that there were no large men of probity who could be called upon for the task.

  Author: Elliot Richardson

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

  Author: Bill Richardson

• I'll get to the force field of this hostility, why it's there, why the rage is in any of us, why the trash takes place, whether or not it's between me and a couple of hecklers in the audience or between this country and another nation, the rage.

  Author: Michael Richards

• We are at war, and our security as a nation depends on winning that war.

  Author: Condoleezza Rice

• In the same manner if any nation wasted part of its wealth, or lost part of its trade, it could not retain the same quantity of circulating medium which it before possessed.

  Author: David Ricardo

• The greatest man is he who forms the taste of a nation; the next greatest is he who corrupts it.

  Author: Joshua Reynolds

• I have a high regard for Native languages and the pivotal role they have played in our nation's history.

  Author: Rick Renzi

• The greatest men of a nation are those it puts to death.

  Author: Ernest Renan

• While port security remains one of our single greatest vulnerabilities, it makes little sense to give operational control of our ports to a foreign nation without first doing proper investigations.

  Author: Dave Reichert

• It is vitally important that we implement immigration reform. We need a bill that strengthens our borders and protects this nation, but that also makes it simpler for good people to become Americans.

  Author: Dave Reichert

• Congress has an obligation to protect our country's natural beauty, embodied in our nation's parks, rivers, and breathtaking landscapes.

  Author: Dave Reichert

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

  Author: Ronald Reagan

• I am struck by how casually we as a nation react to the carnage in Iraq.

  Author: Charles Rangel

• As a nation we should commit ourselves not only to the fight against terrorism, but to economic justice, defeat of the AIDS epidemic and vestiges of discriminatory policies of all kinds.

  Author: Charles Rangel

• Regardless of the nature of their crime or any rehabilitation that may have occurred, these ex-felons cannot participate in the decision-making process of this great Nation.

  Author: Charles Rangel

• The United States is historically a nation of immigrants.

  Author: Charles Rangel

• Salvation for a race, nation or class must come from within.

  Author: A. Randolph

• Upper classes are a nation's past; the middle class is its future.

  Author: Ayn Rand

• Our nation owes a debt of gratitude to the 9/11 Commission members for their valuable service and important recommendations to improve homeland security.

  Author: Jim Ramstad

• America, 5 years after this brutal attack, is testament that a Nation conceived in liberty and equality will endure. It is a triumph of millions of Americans but it is also the triumph of an idea larger than any one person, larger than any one nation.

  Author: Nick Rahall

• But through world wars and a Great Depression, through painful social upheaval and a Cold War, and now through the attacks of September 11, 2001, our Nation has indeed survived.

  Author: Nick Rahall

• With that in mind and in celebration of National Prayer Day, today I have proposed in the House of Representatives a Constitutional Amendment that would restore voluntary prayer in our Nation's schools.

  Author: Nick Rahall

• As a people of faith, we know that prayer is a powerful instrument. And as one Nation under God, we know that many times our most powerful tool is prayer.

  Author: Nick Rahall

• On a day when Osama bin Laden again threatened the United States and our allies, it is disturbing to realize that John Kerry neither recognizes nor understands the murderous ideology of our enemies and the threat they pose to our nation.

  Author: Marc Racicot

• 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

• A very great Iliad... concerns the creation of a nation.

  Author: Raymond Queneau

• The other day the President said, I know you've had some rough times, and I want to do something that will show the nation what faith that I have in you, in your maturity and sense of responsibility. He paused, then said, would you like a puppy?

  Author: Dan Quayle

• The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history. I mean in this century's history. But we all lived in this century. I didn't live in this century.

  Author: Dan Quayle

• To understand a man, you must know his memories. The same is true of a nation.

  Author: Anthony Quayle

• Martin Luther King, Jr. Day is a time to honor the greatest champion of racial equality who taught a nation - through compassion and courage - about democracy, nonviolence and racial justice.

  Author: Mark Pryor

• I believe it is essential that we close the security gaps that put our nation at risk, and I will continue to fight for the funding that will secure high-risk targets, such as our ports and borders.

  Author: Mark Pryor

• Our men and women in uniform put their lives on the line for our nation every day; they should not have to jeopardize their financial well-being as well.

  Author: Mark Pryor

• Applications for loans would be judged on a nation's social justice record as well as its economic efficiency.

  Author: Lewis Preston

• 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

• If a nation's literature declines, the nation atrophies and decays.

  Author: Ezra Pound

• I did not join the resistance movement to kill people, to kill the nation. Look at me now. Am I a savage person? My conscience is clear.

  Author: Pol Pot

• We must work to ensure that the Nevada Cancer Institute continues to receive the dollars necessary to make it a vibrant source of research and clinical assistance for cancer victims throughout the state of Nevada and the nation.

  Author: Jon Porter

• Franklin Roosevelt had to govern at a time of crisis. If you're going to make changes in the way a nation thinks, you have to have the ability to take the crisis of the moment and use it to shape an agenda.

  Author: Pete Pont

• In nation after nation, democracy has taken the place of autocracy.

  Author: John Polanyi

• America is a nation fundamentally ambivalent about its children, often afraid of its children, and frequently punitive toward its children.

  Author: Letty Pogrebin

• The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort.

  Author: Plato

• 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

• Smoke the pipe of peace, bury the tomahawk, and become one nation.

  Author: Zebulon Pike

• A war for a great principle ennobles a nation.

  Author: Albert Pike

• America does not want vulgarity and sexual exploitation to be our values and we do not want the world to think those are our standards. We want to be a better nation and a better people, with better standards.

  Author: Charles Pickering

• Without a doubt, professional boxers are the most exploited athletes in our Nation.

  Author: Charles Pickering

• The public airwaves provide a chance to affirm we want to be a good, decent people; a good, decent nation.

  Author: Charles Pickering

• Causes of Civil War are also, that the Wealth of the Nation is in too few mens hands, and that no certain means are provided to keep all men from a necessity either to beg, or steal, or be Souldiers.

  Author: William Petty

• Our shared conservative values, our belief in the individual is the great hope of our nation.

  Author: Rick Perry

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