- Important
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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
- Country
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- Nov 07, 2020
Congress has an obligation to protect our country's natural beauty, embodied in our nation's parks, rivers, and breathtaking landscapes.
- Ethics
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- Nov 07, 2020
The media does play a vital role in our democracy, and if we cannot depend on journalistic ethics, the nation's in trouble.
- Power
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- Nov 07, 2020
Obviously we're a consumer nation and you have the power to influence these big corporations who are running the world right now through what you chose to, or not to, purchase.
- Doors
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- Nov 07, 2020
To be an entrepreneur in Europe, there is a stigma attached to it. There's a reason why England is known as a nation of shopkeepers. Part of it is the idea that it's better to have a shop and keep it up and running than close the doors and try to do something much more significant.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a native Washingtonian, I am well aware that childhood obesity is a real problem in our nation's capital.
- Freedom
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- Nov 07, 2020
That the Op-Ed page is very important in readers' and the nation's perception of the Times, the perception of its editorial positions, and of its implicit editorial positions as expressed by the publisher's choice of people who are given the freedom to write opinion columns.
- Age
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- Nov 07, 2020
The anti-apartheid prisoners on the island, like so many in every age and nation, found that Shakespeare had a peculiar ability to gentle their condition. They used to gather clandestinely to read the plays; on one occasion, the book was passed around for each man to mark his favourite lines.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I represented the people of Hawaii and this nation honestly and to the best of my ability. I think I did okay.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
As individuals and as a nation, we now suffer from social narcissism. The beloved Echo of our ancestors, the virgin America, has been abandoned. We have fallen in love with our own image, with images of our making, which turn out to be images of ourselves.
- Question
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- Nov 07, 2020
We're a nation of immigrants - there's no question about that. But we're also a nation of laws. I think we have to honor both of those.
- Ensure
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- Nov 07, 2020
I will defend and enforce the laws of our country to ensure that our people and our nation are protected.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history. I mean in this century's history. But we all lived in this century. I didn't live in this century.
- Liberty
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- Nov 07, 2020
You simply cannot continue a nation as America without that Christian base of liberty.
- Israel
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- Nov 07, 2020
I hope that I have had some effect on the fact that Israel is a start-up nation.
- Brave Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
Through the centuries, over 1.2 million brave men and women have given their lives for our nation.
- Healthcare
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- Nov 07, 2020