Quotes about Nation
Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe, to assure the survival and success of liberty.
- John F. Kennedy
The good ruler sublimates his needs as an individual to the service of the nation.
- Aung San Suu Kyi
The root of a nation's misfortunes has to be sought in the moral failings of the government.
- Aung San Suu Kyi
A battle lost or won is easily described, understood, and appreciated, but the moral growth of a great nation requires reflection, as well as observation, to appreciate it.
- Frederick Douglass
A manufacturing nation is, in every sense of the word, dependent on others. Look to England! Cut off from the markets of the world, misery and ruin await her.
- John Tyler
Israel is a country with a thriving free press and a nation known across the world for its support of women's and LGBT rights, not one that should face sanctions by a supposedly peace-loving world body.
- Jacky Rosen
The tolling of yon dismal bell and the loud but solemn discharge of artillery hath announced to the nation the melancholy tidings - Thomas Jefferson no longer lives!
- John Tyler
The character inherent in the American people has done all that has been accomplished; and it would have done somewhat more, if the government had not sometimes got in its way.
- Henry David Thoreau
Now is the time...for this nation to take a clearly leading role in space achievement, which in many ways may hold the key to our future on Earth.
- John F. Kennedy
If we're morally responsible for monitoring our own souls, then we're morally responsible, as well, for monitoring the soul of our nation.
- Marianne Williamson
we need to atone for our mistakes as a nation and return to the democratic principles and universal human values from which we have strayed.
- Marianne Williamson
The universe exists primarily to display the wealth of the glory of the mercy of God for the enjoyment of his redeemed people from every tribe and tongue and people and nation.
- John Piper