- People
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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
- Clear
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- Nov 07, 2020
The NATO treaty is crystal clear on this one: An attack on one nation shall be regarded as an attack on all of them.
- Health
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- Nov 07, 2020
The arts have always been an important ingredient to the health of a nation, but we haven't gotten there yet.
- Fighter
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our nation will have 50 percent less ability to do whatever our bidding is because the joint strike fighter program was canceled. There is nothing that is going to be a replacement besides the Joint Strike Fighter.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not out for quotas. I'm out to attract the best young men and women of our nation.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's a mindset of flexibility and adaptability that comes with us. We don't mind hardship. We don't mind somebody saying, 'Go in and do this nasty job.' Whatever the job is, we can do it. That's why the nation has a Marine Corps.
- Peace
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Marine Corps has to ask itself, 'What does our nation need from its premier crisis response force?' We are America's shock troops in war and peace. I know it sounds corny, but it's not.
- Duty
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the hardest things I do as FBI Director is call the chiefs and sheriffs in departments around the nation when officers have been killed in the line of duty. I call to express my sorrow and offer the FBI's help.
- Defeat
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- Nov 07, 2020
Each FBI employee understands that to defeat the key threats facing our nation, we must constantly strive to be more efficient and more effective. Just as our adversaries continue to evolve, so, too, must the FBI.
- Political
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was one of the actors in 'Braveheart,' and that had a huge impact on the political scene in Scotland. One of the results of that, in 2014 there's going to be a referendum in Scotland as to whether Scotland is going to be independent. A great deal of that was brought to the nation as a result of 'Braveheart.'
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
All my confidence has disappeared because the whole nation thinks I'm a homophobe who looks like a monster.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Some people in this nation believe that race is a significant factor in the constant attacks against President Obama. Others believe that these attacks reflect only the normal level of criticism aimed at the occupant of the White House.
- Flaws
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- Nov 07, 2020
America is a nation with many flaws that only the stupid would deny, but with hopes so vast that only the cowardly would refuse to acknowledge them.
- Opinion
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've always been a ravenous consumer of opinion. When I was in my high school library and my college library, I would read 'National Review' and I would read 'The Nation' and I would read 'The American Spectator' and I would read 'Mother Jones.'
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Kurdish people have the right of self-determination like every other nation in the world.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020