- Circumstances
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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
- Illusion
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- Nov 07, 2020
There can be no greater error than to expect, or calculate, upon real favors from nation to nation. It is an illusion which experience must cure, which a just pride ought to discard.
- Language
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- Nov 07, 2020
As advertising blather becomes the nation's normal idiom, language becomes printed noise.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you seek Hamilton's monument, look around. You are living in it. We honor Jefferson, but live in Hamilton's country, a mighty industrial nation with a strong central government.
- Constitute
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- Nov 07, 2020
Popularity makes no law invulnerable to invalidation. Americans accept judicial supervision of their democracy - judicial review of popular but possibly unconstitutional statutes - because they know that if the Constitution is truly to constitute the nation, it must trump some majority preferences.
- Control
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- Nov 07, 2020
America is the only developed nation that has a 2,000-mile border with a developing nation, and the government's refusal to control that border is why there are an estimated 460,000 illegal immigrants in Arizona and why the nation, sensibly insisting on first things first, resists 'comprehensive' immigration reform.
- Independent
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- Nov 07, 2020
The constitution ought to specifically state that every nation is left entirely independent and supreme in its internal affairs, such as regulating emigration and all other similar matters.
- Political
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- Nov 07, 2020
Dogmatic ideological parties tend to splinter the political and social fabric of a nation.
- Getting
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- Nov 07, 2020
We are the most powerful nation on earth. No external power, no terrorist organization, can defeat us. But we can defeat ourselves by getting caught in a quagmire.
- Denounce
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- Nov 07, 2020
If we're going to be successful and be considered credible in the Hispanic community, we've got to denounce some of the ignorant statements that are made about Hispanics and the contributions we make, whether it's to the military, our nation's economy, or to the history of Texas.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are certain moments in the history of a nation when the choices made define the decades to come.
- Neighborhood
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- Nov 07, 2020
On that terrible day, a nation became a neighborhood. All Americans became New Yorkers.
- Night
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- Nov 07, 2020
To be on 'Coast to Coast,' you have to be willing to stay awake in the middle of the night. But in return you get a great audience of millions of listeners all across the nation.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
We need a government that does not give in to a globalist agenda, an agenda I am now convinced seeks to bring American as a sovereign nation and the middle class to their knees.
- Columns
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- Nov 07, 2020