- Responsibility
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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
- Fight
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- Nov 07, 2020
The people of this state won't back down from a challenge. Not in the fight for civil rights, not in defending our nation's freedoms, not in the aftermath of devastating natural disasters.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I endorsed Governor John Kasich for President because I felt like he was the most qualified and the best person to lead our nation.
- Creeping
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think that whenever a nation feels itself to be at is zenith, it starts to feel a creeping sense of anxiety.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
The people that I represent in Illinois care passionately about protecting open space and safeguarding our nation's natural treasures, including the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.
- Property
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- Nov 07, 2020
Property that endangers the safety of a nation should not be suffered to remain in the hands of its citizens.
- Courage
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is a measure needing courage to adopt and enforce it, which I believe to be of virtue sufficient to redeem the nation in this its darkest hour: one only; I know of no other to which we may rationally trust for relief from impending dangers without and within.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
We, unlike Nazi Germany or Mussolini's Italy, have never stopped being a nation of laws, not of men. But witness how men with motives and a majority can manipulate law to cruel and unjust ends.
- Free
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- Nov 07, 2020
We call ourselves a free nation, and yet we let ourselves be told what cabs we can and can't take by a man at a hotel door, simply because he has a drum major's uniform on.
- Daily
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are thousands of boys being wasted daily to our country through being left to become characterless, and, therefore, useless wasters, a misery to themselves and an eyesore and a danger to the nation. They could be saved if only the right surroundings or environment were given to them at the receptive time of their lives.
- Soldiers
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- Nov 07, 2020
We're quickly moving to the point where we will have no military bases in the Northeast, and this undermines support for the military. We are a nation of citizen soldiers.
- Opportunity
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- Nov 07, 2020
We have a choice in Silicon Valley. We can either continue to exist as an island to ourselves, focused on wealth creation and innovation... or we can understand that we are in the middle of a software revolution and answer the nation's call to provide economic opportunity and technology to places left behind.
- Better Way
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- Nov 07, 2020
Space exploration and experimentation are critically valuable to our nation. I know of no better way to honor those seven who sacrificed their lives than to recommit ourselves to defend and enhance America's important strategies in space.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
Roc Nation is such an incredible, unique team, especially in the music industry. Everyone genuinely loves and cares about each other.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
We are threatened by long-unresolved issues between the melting pot of cultures that make up our nation. People are isolated, every day less united, and every day falling deeper into a new level of cultural despair.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
We're a nation of laws, but the good thing about America, is that laws reside in the people and people can change the laws.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020