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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
- Hope
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- Nov 07, 2020
Unless our conception of patriotism is progressive, it cannot hope to embody the real affection and the real interest of the nation.
- Clergy
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- Nov 07, 2020
It will, I believe, be everywhere found, that as the clergy are, or are not what they ought to be, so are the rest of the nation.
- House
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- Nov 07, 2020
A nation without borders is like a house without walls - it collapses. And that is what is going to happen to our wonderful America.
- Loved
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- Nov 07, 2020
I loved all that riot-grrl scene and Nation of Ulysses and Bikini Kill and Huggy Bear. I loved it. It was the moment sort of first growing up where bands had stopped looking like roadies.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
It frustrates me that Britain can't make something like 'CSI' or 'The Sopranos'. Instead, British TV puts soap in primetime while every other civilized nation leaves it in daytime. Viewers should be more demanding.
- Forward
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- Nov 07, 2020
The hope for our nation and our world lies within our ability to innovate and move forward technologically.
- Feeling
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every nation feels itself to be superior, but in America it's a jaunty feeling, and in some cases a rather ominous one among the super-patriots.
- Glory
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- Nov 07, 2020
My great-grandfather was the last ruler of the Choctaw Nation, and from birth, I was taught that my role was to restore the power and the glory to my bloodline.
- Best
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- Nov 07, 2020
The public lands are a public stock, which ought to be disposed of to the best advantage for the nation.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Constitution preserves the advantage of being armed which Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation where the governments are afraid to trust the people with arms.
- Concur
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- Nov 07, 2020
I entirely concur in the propriety of resorting to the sense in which the Constitution was accepted and ratified by the nation. In that sense alone it is the legitimate Constitution.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every nation whose affairs betray a want of wisdom and stability may calculate on every loss which can be sustained from the more systematic policy of its wiser neighbors.
- Boldly
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- Nov 07, 2020
Woodrow Wilson called for leaders who, by boldly interpreting the nation's conscience, could lift a people out of their everyday selves. That people can be lifted into their better selves is the secret of transforming leadership.
- Crushing
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- Nov 07, 2020