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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
- Innovation
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What brought mass innovation to a nation was not scientific advances - its own or others' - but 'economic dynamism': the desire and the space to innovate.
- Gnawing
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By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation.
- Imagination
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The four cornerstones of character on which the structure of this nation was built are: Initiative, Imagination, Individuality and Independence.
- Assure
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As lawmakers, we must assure the people of America that our nation will not experience the nightmare of the 2000 presidential election.
- Security
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Our nation's security, economy, and place on the world stage depends on the success our educational system.
- Death
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It is common knowledge that smoking is considered one of the nation's leading causes of preventable death, but it's less widely known that cigarettes are also the leading cause of fatal fires.
- History
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The highest percentage of African Americans own their own homes today than ever in our nation's history.
- Research
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There are several revenue streams that are near and present that could support a private space station, including in-space manufacturing, microgravity research, and tourism - for both individuals and sovereign nation astronauts - and in-space supply logistics.
- Conflict
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Our nation must manage significant national security challenges over the next several years. We are already facing a potential conflict with Iraq, new challenges on the Korean peninsula, and key decisions in the president's plans to transform the military.
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Fences work and the walls work and separations work. They afford to any nation the delay of entry.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020