Quotes about Nation

It seemed to me that constant stressing of the individual rights and privileges of American citizenship had overshadowed the equally important truth that such individualism can be sustained only so long as the citizen accepts his full responsibility for the welfare of the nation that protects him in the exercise of these rights.

What a shame it is for a nation to be developing without a sense of beauty, and eating bananas for breakfast.

The use of force alone is but temporary. It may subdue for a moment; but it does not remove the necessity of subduing again; and a nation is not governed, which is perpetually to be conquered.

It will not be in the power of the President and Senate to make any treaties by which they and their families and estates will not be equally bound and affected with the rest of the community; and, having no private interests distinct from that of the nation, they will be under no temptations to neglect the latter.

Poems, novels - these things belong to the nation, to the culture, and the people.

There is no cure for the pride of a virtuous nation but pure religion.

It is a misnomer to call a government republican in which a branch of the supreme power is independent of the nation.

A nation that turns away from prayer will ultimately find itself in desperate need of it.

I know that the Lord is always on the side of the right. But it is my constant anxiety and prayer that I and this nation should be on the Lord's side.

Join a company of young men and women who have made a covenant by sacrifice to turn a nation through united massive fasting and prayer.

The more profoundly we study this wonderful book [the Bible], and the more closely we observe its divine precept, the better citizens we will become and the higher will be our destiny as a nation.

The late M. Venizelos observed that in all her wars England—he should have said Britain, of course—always wins one battle—the last.