Quotes about Nation

A strong nation, like a strong person, can afford to be gentle, firm, thoughtful, and restrained. It can afford to extend a helping hand to others. It is a weak nation, like a weak person, that must behave with bluster and boasting and rashness and other signs of insecurity.

When the church either dims the light of God's Truth, or turns the Light off altogether, the nation begins operating and functioning in spiritual darkness. There is no moral, spiritual compass to warn when the nation loses its way and is in danger of self-destructing. There is no guiding light to show the nation how to get back on the right path.

Every Latter-day Saint should love the inspired Constitution of the United States - a nation with a spiritual foundation and a prophetic history - which nation the Lord has declared to be his base of operations in these latter days.

I feel sure we are the great coming nation—yet—and she sighed—I feel my life should have drowsed away close to an older, mellower civilization, a land of greens and autumnal browns—

Before Elijah could raise a nation from the dead, he raised just one dead child.

We are a Nation Under God. If we ever forget this, we are a nation gone UNDER.

If we ever forget that we're one nation under God, then we will be a nation gone under. ~Ronald Reagan

Every individual, however original he may be, is still a child of God, of his age, of his nation, of his family and friends. Only thus is he truly himself. If in all this relativity he tries to be the absolute, then he becomes ridiculous.

Just think what it means to live in a Christian state, a Christian nation, where everything is Christian, and we are all Christians, where, however a man twists and turns, he sees nothing but Christianity and Christendom, the truth and witnesses to the truth —

So long as we govern our nation by the letter and spirit of the Bill of Rights, we can be sure that our nation will grow in strength and wisdom and freedom.

The reduction of nuclear arsenals and the removal of the threat of worldwide nuclear destruction is a measure, in my judgment, ofthe power and strength of a great nation.

The Lord may very well have removed His blessing from America the moment America stopped blessing us.