- Doubt
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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
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
Stimulus spending, permanent bailouts, government takeovers, and federal mandates have all failed our nation. America's employers are afraid to invest in an economy racked with uncertainty over what Washington's next set of rules, regulations, mandates, and tax hikes will look like.
- Far
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- Nov 07, 2020
Democratic nation states remain far more capable of managing the circuit of coercion, taxation and legitimation than any transnational bodies.
- Looking
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- Nov 07, 2020
After Apollo 17, America stopped looking towards the next horizon. The United States had become a space-faring nation, but threw it away. We have sacrificed space exploration for space exploitation, which is interesting but scarcely visionary.
- Powerful
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- Nov 07, 2020
The BBC provides the commentary on our lives, the soundtrack of the nation. It is one of the most powerful unifying forces in the United Kingdom today.
- Building
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- Nov 07, 2020
Infrastructure sector is all about building assets for the country. It is part of nation building.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think it's unfair to criticise someone for not being Welsh, but the smaller the nation, the more patriotic you seem to be.
- Crude Oil
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- Nov 07, 2020
The price of crude oil accounts for 55 percent of the price of a gallon of gasoline, driven by global supply and demand. The United States depends on foreign sources of oil for 62 percent of our nation's supply. By 2010, this is projected to jump to 75 percent.
- Fair Share
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- Nov 07, 2020
The building of America has had its fair share of mistakes, but it's a constitution that's the jewel of democracy, the envy of many, and it's the most generous nation in the world.
- Airplane
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- Nov 07, 2020
For the undocumented immigrants, the big priority is just to get out from the shadows, be able to get a driver's license, buy an airplane ticket and stop worrying about sudden deportation. But for the country as a whole, it's crucial that everybody have a citizen's stake in the nation's welfare.
- Our
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- Nov 07, 2020
Thus we have at least a national song that unites all Germans, and is the symbol of our sixty-million nation.
- Own
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- Nov 07, 2020
An individual, in promoting his own interest, may injure the public interest; a nation, in promoting the general welfare, may check the interest of a part of its members.
- Fall
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- Nov 07, 2020
Industry entirely left to itself, would soon fall to ruin, and a nation letting everything alone would commit suicide.
- Growth
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is nothing left now for us but to get ever deeper and deeper into debt to the banking system in order to provide the increasing amounts of money the nation requires for its expansion and growth.
- Only
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- Nov 07, 2020