Quotes about Nation

Occasions for appealing to public compassion are never wanting in a nation eternally rocked by catastrophes that shake the foundations of life, floods that sweep away entire towns, gigantic waves that deposit ships in the center of a plaza. We are created in the idea that life is precarious, and we are always waiting for the next calamity to happen.

That this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom.

The historic glory of America lies in the fact that it is the one nation that was founded like a church. That is, it was founded on a faith that was not merely summed up after it had exited, but was defined before it existed.

Spiritually, we have marginalized the Bible. We've trivialized marriage, and we've neutralized the church. America today is in great turmoil. It feels like the soul of our nation has been taken from us.

If Americans will face the truth, our nation can be turned around and can be saved from the evils and the destruction that have fallen upon every other nation that has turned its back on God.

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.

A nation will rise no higher than the strength of its homes. If you want to reform a nation you begin with families.

Poor is the nation that has no heroes, but poorer still is the nation that having heroes, fails to remember and honor them.

The life of the nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous.

A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual doom.

A nation's strength is found not in the number of its laws but in the character of its people.

Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure.