- American Life
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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
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
We have not yet reached the goal but... we shall soon, with the help of God, be in sight of the day when poverty shall be banished from this nation.
- Only
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are only three ways to meet the unpaid bills of a nation. The first is taxation. The second is repudiation. The third is inflation.
- Far
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- Nov 07, 2020
The ancient Roman code belongs to a class of which almost every civilised nation in the world can show a sample, and which, so far as the Roman and Hellenic worlds were concerned, were largely diffused over them at epochs not widely distant from one another.
- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020
The statesman's duty is to bridge the gap between his nation's experience and his vision.
- Australians
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- Nov 07, 2020
On the same line of reasoning, if Australians were to be Australians, or rather if Australians were as separate from any other nation as Australia from any other land, there would be no jealousy between them on England's account.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Regardless of your political affiliation, most people agree that Ronald Reagan was an American icon. He was a president of national significance and for that reason he deserves an honor in the nation's capital.
- Fraud
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- Nov 07, 2020
May the United Nations ever be vigilant and potent to defeat the swallowing up of any nation, at any time, by any means-by armies with banners, by force or by fraud, by tricks or by midnight treachery.
- Promises
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- Nov 07, 2020
Narendra Modiji has proved his skills and delivered on his promises in Gujarat and he has some very good plans for the nation.
- Fear
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- Nov 07, 2020
America is such a nation of suppressed emotion, and when you arrive in L.A., you can smell the fear. It's the most alien country I've ever been to.
- Identity
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- Nov 07, 2020
We're a nation in search of an identity, but it's quite exciting. I don't regard it as a problem. It's a challenge.
- Energy Policy
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- Nov 07, 2020
A comprehensive national energy policy is critical to our nation's economy and our national security. Energy expenditures account for about 7% percent of our total economy and influence pricing in the much of the rest of the economy.
- Compromise
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've got a bit of an independent streak. I'm not afraid of bipartisan compromise on issues that are important to the nation.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
Many of our young people spend four years getting very expensive college degrees. But our universities fail them and the nation if they continue to graduate students with expertise in biochemistry, mathematics or history without teaching them to think about what problems are important and why.
- Expedient
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think that the president of Iran has the authority wherever which - where - wherever the national interests of the country are involved and, when it is necessary and expedient and required to speak and talk with others in order to promote the rights of its nation, that the president can take that initiative.
- Problems
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- Nov 07, 2020