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- Nov 07, 2020
Nation Quotes
Reflections on country, community, and the work of change.
This collection brings together quotes about what a nation owes its people and what its people owe back, touching on education access, inequality, and the leaders a country produces. Several lines connect that civic outlook to a deeper belief in what a country can become.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our nation has invested millions of dollars in building safe, humane and, I may say, air-conditioned facilities to detain and prosecute the detainees at Guantanamo.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our nation is grounded on the rule of law, and the public must be assured that government officials administer the law fairly.
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Federal Bureau of Investigation has long been regarded as our nation's premier federal investigative agency.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
The election of Obama will say as much about the American people as it does about Obama himself - that our Declaration of Independence means what it says in its opening lines, that being the world's greatest nation means that we offer the world's greatest opportunities.
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- Nov 07, 2020
North Carolina, particularly the 8th District, has long played a key role in our Nation's military forces.
- Coast Guard
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- Nov 07, 2020
Those who served, and those who continue to serve in the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines, and Coast Guard took an oath to uphold and protect the Constitution against all enemies foreign and domestic, and we can never forget the importance of their commitment to our Nation.
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the striking features of the form of globalisation that has now been established is that it is based on the premise that goods and even capital should be free to roam but labour must remain imprisoned within the nation state.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't think we should have to do a Mars mission on the basis of hysteria. I think we should do a Mars mission on the basis of a deliberate judgment that what we want to do is open up a new planet for humanity... that we are continuing to be a nation of pioneers.
- Deserve
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- Nov 07, 2020
The American people want and deserve a space program truly worthy of a nation of pioneers.
- Discharge
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- Nov 07, 2020
And here a most heinous charge is made, that the nation has been burdened with unnecessary expenses for the sole purpose of preventing the discharge of our debts and the abolition of taxes.
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- Nov 07, 2020
America spends a fortune on drugs: more per person than any other nation on earth, even though Americans are no healthier than the citizens of other advanced nations.
- Evidence
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- Nov 07, 2020
The generosity of the super-rich is sometimes proffered as evidence they're contributing as much to the nation's well-being as they did decades ago when they paid a much larger share of their earnings in taxes.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Those who dare to interpret God's will must never claim Him as an asset for one nation or group rather than another.
- Nov 07, 2020
Television has created a nation of news junkies who tune in every night to get their fix on the world.
- Freedom
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have always that there ought to be some kind of mandatory national service, not necessarily in the military but to show everybody that freedom isn't free, that everybody has an obligation to the nation as a community.
- Opposition
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- Nov 07, 2020