- Country
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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
- Current Administration
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- Nov 07, 2020
During the 2000 election, the current administration told our military, help is on the way. That is clearly not the case. The administration has failed to request the funds needed for the defense of this Nation. We must give the Army what it needs.
- Animal
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- Nov 07, 2020
Congress must make it clear that common animal waste will not expose farmers to liability under Superfund, while ensuring continued action to clean up legitimate hazardous waste sites around the nation.
- Only
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- Nov 07, 2020
No nation, savage or civilized, save only the United States of America, has confessed its inability to protect its women save by hanging, shooting, and burning alleged offenders.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
America... just a nation of two hundred million used car salesmen with all the money we need to buy guns and no qualms about killing anybody else in the world who tries to make us uncomfortable.
- Been
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- Nov 07, 2020
Americans have been taught that their nation is civilized and humane. But, too often, U.S. actions have been uncivilized and inhumane.
- Said
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- Nov 07, 2020
At a time when we have much work to do to address our Nation's critical infrastructure, and, as I said, which is currently in dire need of upgrade and repair, this legislation is also a jobs bill and is obviously a jobs creator.
- Enmity
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was right to back Muhammad Ali, but it caused me major enmity in many areas of this nation.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
If a nation wants to live in peace with its neighbors, it doesn't keep rattling the saber at them.
- Disconnected
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- Nov 07, 2020
We are surrounded by people with accents because America is a nation of immigrants. Beyond that, the people who made your iPhone and the shirt on your back are probably Asians, and we're really not that disconnected from each other; we have very intimate relationships with the world, whether or not we realize it.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
No nation is so great as to be able to afford, in the long run, to remain outside an increasingly universal League of Nations.
- Challenges
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- Nov 07, 2020
No nation can meet the world's challenges alone.
- Path
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- Nov 07, 2020
With options thus foreclosed, in order to protect and defend the nation and clear the obstacles that stood in its path, a decisive appeal to arms was made.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
If someone were to put a proposition before men bidding them choose, after examination, the best customs in the world, each nation would certainly select its own.
- Must
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- Nov 07, 2020