- 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
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
In this nation, the greatest of all nations, there are no second-class families. That is our great American conviction.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
In a way I never did with George W. Bush or Barack Obama or Bill Clinton, I will write about the actions of the Trump presidency with the working assumption that our nation must be protected both by and from the president.
- Better
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- Nov 07, 2020
Medicare debates in Congress should result in better Medicare benefits for all our nation's seniors. We're not asking for special treatment for rural America, just a fair deal.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sending our young men and women into battle is perhaps the most serious course of action a Nation can undertake.
- Nov 07, 2020
Without publicity there can be no public support, and without public support every nation must decay.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am certain that I speak on behalf of my entire nation when I say: September 11th we are all Americans - in grief, as in defiance.
- Character
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- Nov 07, 2020
No government can be strong and flourishing while the national character is weak and degraded. A government must flourish and decay with its subjects; and, when a prince makes a law or performs an action which has a tendency to injure the character or prosperity of the nation, he injures himself.
- Equity
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- Nov 07, 2020
No nation can answer for the equity of proceedings in all its inferior courts. It suffices to provide a supreme judicature by which error and partiality may be corrected.
- Matter
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- Nov 07, 2020
The United Nations charter gives every nation the right to self defence, therefore when the American embassies were bombed it was a matter of time before the Americans responded by going for what they suspected were the causes of the attack.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am one year older than Nigeria at 51. In a human life, 51 might be old. But it is very young for a nation. By that, I mean a Nigeria conscious of itself as a nation.
- Internet
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- Nov 07, 2020
People rely on Wikipedia, and a lot of it is wrong. But because there it is on the Internet, they assume it's right. Rumor gets printed as fact. We may have lost our critical facility as a nation.
- Heart
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not afraid to say it - I'm proud to be from a nation that wears its heart on its sleeve and isn't scared to show its feelings.
- Courage
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- Nov 07, 2020
When the economic well-being of their nation demanded a strong and creative response, my colleagues at the Federal Reserve... mustered the moral courage to do what was necessary.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Here's a nation, one of the founding pillars was freedom of speech and freedom of expression. And yet, we have imposed upon people restrictions on what they can say, on what they can think. And the media is the largest proponent of this, crucifying people who say things really quite innocently.
- Future
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- Nov 07, 2020