Nation Quotes

The man who does not think it was America's duty to fight for her own sake in view of the infamous conduct of Germany toward us stands on a level with a man who wouldn't think it necessary to fight in a private quarrel because his wife's face was slapped.

Together as a nation, we have the obligation to put sunshine into the hearts of our little ones. They are our precious possessions. They deserve what happiness life can offer.

A nation may be said to consist of its territory, its people, and its laws. The territory is the only part which is of certain durability.

Not gold, but only man can make a people great and strong; men who, for truth and honor's sake, stand fast and suffer long.

Let us be those creative dissenters who will call our beloved nation to a higher destiny. To a new plateau of compassion, to a more noble expression of humanness.

I call for effort, courage, sacrifice, devotion. Granting the love of freedom, all of these are possible. And the love of freedom is still fierce and steady in the nation today. June 10, 1940

Let reverence for the laws . . . become the political religion of the nation.

A husband and wife may be divorced and go out of the presence and beyond the reach of each other, but the different parts of our country can not do this. They can but remain face to face, and intercourse, either amicable or hostile, must continue between them.

Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education. The human mind is our fundamental resource.

We are firmly convinced, and we act on that conviction, that with nations as with individuals our interests soundly calculated will ever be found inseparable from our moral duties, and history bears witness to the fact that a just nation is trusted on its word when recourse is had to armaments and wars to bridle others.

Kings are for nations in their swaddling-clothes: France has attained her majority.

France has more need of me than I have need of France.

The English are a nation of consummate cant.

Character, in the long run, is the decisive factor in the life of an individual and of nations alike.

It is, of course, the merest truism to say a party is of use only so far as it serves the nation.

We must live our lives in such a way that our children, and their children after them, will form a natural and lasting commitment to the vigorous life. Only in this way can we be assured that the spirit and strength of America will be constantly replenished.

A nation that still needs to distinguish between stealing an election, and stealing a new pair of shoes, is not completely civilized yet.

Nothing is more likely to destroy a species or a nation than a determination to survive at all costs

This blessèd plot, this earth, this realm, this EnglandThis nurse, this teeming womb of royal kings,. . .This land of such dear souls, this dear dear land.

A small nation, faced with the denial of its sovereignty — indeed, of its very existence — reminded us that the price of freedom is high but never so costly as the loss of freedom.

Our country is great because it is built on principles of self-reliance, opportunity, innovation, and compassion for others.

Loyalty to the Nation all the time, loyalty to the Government when it deserves it.

I was a co-operator too in the sense that I non-co-operated for co-operation, and even then I said that if I could carry the country forward by co-operation I should co-operate.

This great Nation will endure as it has endured, will revive and will prosper.

We see the wisdom of Solon's remark, that no more good must be attempted than the nation can bear.

By the laws of God, of nature, of nations, and of your country you are and ought to be as free a people as your brethren in England.

I wasn't a great communicator, but I communicated great things, and they didn't spring full-bloom from my brow - they came from the heart of a great nation.

I was very glad that Mr. Attlee described my speeches in the war as expressing the will not only of Parliament but of the whole nation. Their will was resolute and remorseless and, as it proved, unconquerable. It fell to me to express it, and if I found the right words you must remember that I have always earned my living by my pen and by my tongue. It was a nation and race dwelling all round the globe that had the lion heart. I had the luck to be called upon to give the roar.

Do not destroy that immortal emblem of humanity, the Declaration of Independence.

My 2020 Vision for India is to transform it into a developed nation. That cannot be abstract; it is a lifeline.

It is time for us now as a nation to exercise the same reasonable foresight in dealing with our great natural resources that would be shown by any prudent man in conserving and widely using the property which contains the assurance of well-being for himself and his children.

I feel quite sure that the American people, if they have knowledge and leadership, can meet any crisis just as well as they met it over and over again in the past.

I would save the Union. I would save it the shortest way under the Constitution. The sooner the national authority can be restored; the nearer the Union will be 'the Union as it was'.

Pity the nation whose statesman is a fox, whose philosopher is a juggler, and whose art is the art of patching and mimicking. Pity the nation that welcomes its new ruler with trumpetings, and farewells him with hootings, only to welcome another ruler with trumpetings again. Pity the nation whose sages are dumb with years and whose strong men are yet in the cradle. Pity the nation divided into fragments, each fragment deeming itself a nation.

If any form of government is capable of making a nation happy, ours I think bids fair now for producing that effect. But after all much depends upon the people who are governed.

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 the success of liberty.

Our popular government has often been called an experiment. Two points in it our people have already settled, the successful establishing and the successful administering of it. One still remains, its successful maintenance against a formidable internal attempt to overthrow it.

A nation that knows how to work will never suffer.

This souls'prison we call England.

Half-a-dozen or twenty cities of India alone working together cannot bring Swaraj.

The man who loves other countries as much as his own stands on a level with the man who loves other women as much as he loves his own wife.

Associate yourself with men of good quality, if you esteem your reputation. Be not apt to relate news, if you know not the truth thereof. Speak no evil of the absent, for it is unjust. Undertake not what you cannot perform, but be careful to keep your promise. There is but one straight course, and that is to seek truth, and pursue it steadily. Nothing but harmony, honesty, industry and frugality are necessary to make us a great and happy nation.

The fate of America cannot depend on any one man. The greatness of America is grounded in principles and not on any single personality.

We will be remembered only if we give to our younger generation a prosperous and safe India, resulting out of economic prosperity coupled with civilizational heritage.

The one characteristic more essential than any other is foresight... It should be the growing nation with a future which takes the long look ahead.

If this long island story of ours is to end at last, let it end only when each one of us lies, choking in his own blood upon the ground.

When a nation has allowed itself to fall under a tyrannical regime, it cannot be absolved from the faults due to the guilt of that regime.

Toward all other nations, large and small, our attitude must be one of cordial and sincere friendship. We must show not only in our words, but in our deeds, that we are earnestly desirous of securing their good will by acting toward them in a spirit of just and generous recognition of all their rights.

Alike for the nation and the individual, the one indispensable requisite is character.

Unite for the public safety, if you would remain an independent nation.

What is true of the individual will be tomorrow true of the whole nation if individuals will but refuse to lose heart and hope.

We are the only nation in the world that waits till we get into a war before we start getting ready for it.

Nations consist of people. And with their effort, a nation can accomplish all it could ever want.

Our citizenship in the United States is our national character. Our citizenship in any particular state is only our local distinction. By the latter we are known at home, by the former to the world. Our great title is AMERICANS.

Out of the public schools comes the greatness of the nation.

The State is the sum total of the sacrifice, on its behalf, of its members.

Economics that hurt the moral well-being of an individual or a nation are immoral and, therefore, sinful.

We must think and act like a nation of a billion people and not like that of a million people. Dream, dream, dream!

The allied nations with the fullest concurrence of our government and people are agreed that in Palestine shall be laid the foundations of a Jewish Commonwealth.

Everything that can weaken us as a race we have had for the last thousand years. It seems as if during that period the national life had this one end in view, viz how to make us weaker and weaker, till we have become real earthworms, crawling at the feet of every one who dares to put his foot on us. Therefore my friends, as one of your blood, as one that lives and dies with you, let me tell you that we want strength, strength, and every time strength.