Quotes about Nation

We must have a citizenship less concerned about what the government can do for it and more anxious about what it can do for the nation.

On the contrary, he would come home and rail at both parties with great wrath—and plainly proved one day to the satisfaction of my wife, and three old ladies who were drinking tea with her, that the two parties were like two rogues, each tugging at the skirt of the nation; and that in the end they would tear the very coat off its back, and expose its nakedness.

It is ironic that America, with its history of injustice to the poor, especially the black man and the Indian, prides itself on being a Christian nation.

How long will this people spurn Me? And how long will they not believe in Me, despite all the signs which I have performed in their midst? I will smite them with pestilence and dispossess them, and I will make you into a nation greater and mightier than they" (verses 11—12). That's when Moses pleaded with God not to wipe them out even for His own reputation. And God relented.

The nation which reposes on the pillow of political confidence, will sooner or later end its political existence in a deadly lethargy

I have faith in the United States and our ability to make good decisions based on the facts.

She heard enough desperate pleas on the job from dying vics, scared perps, and grieving loved ones to believe the nation of appealing to heaven was somewhat legit.

The more a nation gets into darkness, the more it's going to hate the light. The more it's going to run from the light. And we have a generation of people who have given themselves to darkness, and they've embraced atheism, because it gets them away from moral responsibility to God.

Black men of integrity cannot make a deal with a politician and leave out the poor of the nation, all God's children.

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

If we ever forget that we are One Nation Under God, then we will be a nation gone under.

A thoughtful mind, when it sees a nation's flag, sees not the flag, but the nation itself.