- 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
- Grateful
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our troops are committed to bringing security to Iraq while its government matures. American forces will continue to accomplish their mission with caution, precision and honor with the thanks of a grateful nation.
- Motto
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Out of many, one' is the national motto, and what the Founders imagined it meant is that out of the great and celebrated differences between us comes one nation and one larger purpose.
- Justice
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- Nov 07, 2020
Since its inception, our Nation has stood on the foundations of compassion and justice.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
This is a time for a national conversation. A conversation about the document that binds us as a nation and a people. That document, of course, is the Constitution.
- Best
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- Nov 07, 2020
I believe President Obama loves this country and wakes up every morning trying to do what is best for our nation, even if I disagree with his approach.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
While our nation faces many challenges that must be met regarding homeland security and our military readiness, it is imperative that we live within our means and wisely spend taxpayer dollars.
- Desire
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the 'era of colorblindness,' there's a nearly fanatical desire to cling to the myth that we, as a nation, have 'moved beyond' race.
- Face
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- Nov 07, 2020
The uncomfortable reality we must face is that California, like the nation as a whole, has treated generations of African Americans and Latinos as largely disposable.
- Crime
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- Nov 07, 2020
Perhaps there should be a box on the census form that says, 'I'm a criminal.' Everyone who has ever committed a crime would be required to check it. If everyone were forced to acknowledge their own criminality, maybe we, as a nation, would second-guess our apparent zeal for denying full citizenship to those branded felons.
- Need
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- Nov 07, 2020
My view of foreign policy is that we need to be careful and circumspect about United States intervention in any foreign nation.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
For decades, Trump had no life independent from the media. He became a figure in the nation, and his a monitisable name - albeit quite a ludicrous one - because of his nonstop, relentless, shameless and often embarrassing courtship of the media.
- Military
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- Nov 07, 2020
What we achieved under General Petraeus up through 2011, and defeating this threat that we faced out there, I mean, once we decided to come out of there, we squandered an enormous opportunity that, frankly, the military did actually provide our nation and provided the Middle East.
- Nov 07, 2020
I believe our inability to achieve victory stems mainly from having lost sight as a nation of what it means to win.
- May
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Maldives, a string of islands off the coast of India whose highest point above sea level is eight feet, may be the first nation to drown. In Alaska, entire towns have begun to shift in the loosening permafrost.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020