Quotes about Nation
Our nation honors its unbroken line of fallen heroes - and I see many of them in the audience here today.
— Barack Obama
No nation keeps its word. A nation is a big, blind worm, following what? Fate perhaps. A nation has no honor, it has no word to keep.
— Carl Jung
A nation that destroys its own people is a nation without hope.
— Pope John Paul II
Families is where our nation finds hope, where wings take dream.
— George W. Bush
The true greatness of a nation is founded on principles of humanity.
— Thomas Paine
Americans are a free people, who know that freedom is the right of every person and the future of every nation. The liberty we prize is not America's gift to the world; it is God's gift to humanity.
— George W. Bush
We're fighting against humanism, we're fighting against liberalism...we are fighting against all the systems of Satan that are destroying our nation today...our battle is with Satan himself.
— Jerry Falwell
America used to live by the motto "Father Knows Best." Now we're lucky if "Father Knows He Has Children." We've become a nation of sperm donors and baby daddies.
— Stephen Colbert
A judiciary independent of a king or executive alone, is a good thing; but independence of the will of the nation is a solecism, at least in a republican government.
— Thomas Jefferson
Was not Abraham Lincoln an extremist? - "This nation cannot survive half slave and half free."
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
We will win our freedom because the sacred heritage of our nation and the eternal will of God are embodied in our echoing demands.
— Martin Luther
I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: 'We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.