Quotes about Nation
As the family goes, so goes the nation and so goes the whole world in which we live.
- Pope John Paul II
We are an American family and we rise and fall together as one nation.
- Barack Obama
If a well-constituted individual refrains from blazoning aught amiss or calamitous in his family, a nation in the like circumstance may without reproach be equally discreet.
- Herman Melville
In the formative days of the Republic, the directing influence the Bible exercised upon the fathers of the Nation is conspicuously evident.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
Our Founding Fathers understood that our country would survive and flourish if our Nation was committed to good character and an unyielding dedication to liberty and justice for all.
- George W. Bush
A nation which has forgotten the quality of courage which in the past has been brought to public life is not as likely to insist upon or regard that quality in its chosen leaders today - and in fact we have forgotten.
- John F. Kennedy
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.
- Marianne Williamson
A small nation, faced with the denial of its sovereignty — indeed, of its very existence — reminded us that the price of freedom is high but never so costly as the loss of freedom.
- Ronald Reagan
Freedom of speech means nothing to a people who are too weak in their convictions to speak out against the evil that is eating at the heart of the nation like a cancer.
- Billy Graham
We are a nation of politicians, concerned about the outmost defenses only of freedom. It is our children's children who may perchance be really free.
- Henry David Thoreau
Without publicity there can be no public support, and without public support every nation must decay.
- Benjamin Disraeli
The modern patriotism, the true patriotism, the only rational patriotism, is loyalty to the Nationallthe time, loyalty to the Government when it deserves it.
- Mark Twain