- Men
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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
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
What, other than injustice, could be the reason that the displaced citizens of New Orleans cannot be accommodated by the richest nation in the world?
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
But 18 years after the passage of the Civil Liberties Act, there still remains unfinished work to completely rectify and close this regrettable chapter in our Nation's history.
- Justice
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- Nov 07, 2020
I yearn to see other chief executives throughout the nation follow suit, so that as a people we may hasten the elimination of barbarism as a tool of American justice.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
The British nation is unique in this respect. They are the only people who like to be told how bad things are, who like to be told the worst.
- Name
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- Nov 07, 2020
Robinson was important to all blacks. To make it into the majors and to take all the name calling, he had to be something special. He had to take all this for years, not just for Jackie Robinson, but for the nation.
- Parliament
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- Nov 07, 2020
Can one serve God and one's nation in parliament?
- Dissolution
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- Nov 07, 2020
The dissolution of the nation destroys the national religion, and dethrones the national deity.
- Nothing
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- Nov 07, 2020
After that his Majesty was beheaded, the Parliament for some years effected nothing either for the publick peace or tranquillity of the nation, or settling religion as they had formerly promised.
- May
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- Nov 07, 2020
Unfortunately, the current format for this lottery program are subject to fraud and abuse and leave our nation exposed to those who may seek to do harm on American soil.
- Hatred
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- Nov 07, 2020
A nation is a society united by a delusion about its ancestry and by common hatred of its neighbours.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
A good government remains the greatest of human blessings and no nation has ever enjoyed it.
- Chains
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- Nov 07, 2020
The chains of military despotism, once fastened upon a nation, ages might pass away before they could be shaken off.
- Power
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is true, indeed, that the national domain is ours. It is true it was acquired by the valor and with the wealth of the whole nation. But we hold, nevertheless, no arbitrary power over it.
- Free
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- Nov 07, 2020