- Security
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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
- Ready
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- Nov 07, 2020
This nation is really ready for a woman president. It's taken time, but we're ready.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
Everything good takes a great amount of effort. Like, things went wrong with 'Prozac Nation' so much, and it went through so many rejections and incarnations, but I felt so much that it needed to exist. But if I hadn't been so persistent and insistent, it wouldn't have happened.
- Pain
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- Nov 07, 2020
I made 'Prozac Nation' necessary reading because I write necessarily. I tell my story because it is about everyone else: in 1993, people took pills to relieve the pain just like they do now, but it scared them; it doesn't any more, because talk is not cheap at all - it is tender.
- Nov 07, 2020
In liberating Iraq, we have rid the nation and the rest of the world from the danger of Saddam Hussein.
- Proud
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- Nov 07, 2020
As the proud home of Fort Drum and the Navy Nuclear Site at Kesselring, our district is home to countless military spouses who make enormous sacrifices on behalf of our nation.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a former CIA officer and Pentagon official. I'm a deep believer in border security, but we have to be a nation of moral - of morals and, like, a moral core.
- Principles
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- Nov 07, 2020
When the United States was founded, the very idea of a nation premised on democratic principles of freedom and tolerance was viewed by the vast majority of the world as an experiment doomed to fail. Dictatorships, monarchies, and theocracies had for many centuries ruled the world.
- Avowed
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- Nov 07, 2020
No nation now sets forth to despoil another upon the avowed ground that it desires the spoils.
- Discussion
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- Nov 07, 2020
The theoretical postulate of all diplomatic discussion between nations is the assumed willingness of every nation to do justice.
- Education
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- Nov 07, 2020
By providing students in our Nation with such an education, we help save our children from the clutches of poverty, crime, drugs, and hopelessness, and we help safeguard our Nation's prosperity for generations yet unborn.
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- Nov 07, 2020
More than 26,000 lives may be lost to the effects of drug abuse this year. This tragic impact is felt in communities across this great nation. Sadly many of these deaths occur among our young people.
- May
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- Nov 07, 2020
The long-standing, non-partisan and publicly-declared foreign policy commitment of the United States is clear. We will do whatever is required to prevent Iran from possessing nuclear weapons. Our nation has not ruled out any option that may be required to achieve this objective, including the use of military force.
- Our
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- Nov 07, 2020
Israel is the strongest nation in the Middle East, but we have to apply our strength wisely.
- Ruin
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- Nov 07, 2020
No nation ever yet found any inconvenience from too close an inspection into the conduct of its officers, but many have been brought to ruin and reduced to slavery by suffering gradual impositions and abuses.
- Character
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- Nov 07, 2020
In general it can be said that a nation's art is greatest when it most reflects the character of its people.
- Fervent
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- Nov 07, 2020