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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
- Nov 07, 2020
Educate the masses, elevate their standard of intelligence, and you will certainly have a successful nation.
- Master
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- Nov 07, 2020
The nation which can prefer disgrace to danger is prepared for a master and deserves one.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
The honor of a nation is its life.
- Freedom
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- Nov 07, 2020
We are a nation built on principles of freedom, and high on the list of freedoms is freedom of religious expression.
- Feeling
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the great attractions of patriotism - it fulfills our worst wishes. In the person of our nation we are able, vicariously, to bully and cheat. Bully and cheat, what's more, with a feeling that we are profoundly virtuous.
- Individuals
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- Nov 07, 2020
The nation is a community. Community of individuals, community of generations.
- Heart
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Woe to that nation whose literature is cut short by the intrusion of force. This is not merely interference with freedom of the press but the sealing up of a nation's heart, the excision of its memory.
- Living
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- Nov 07, 2020
Literature becomes the living memory of a nation.
- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020
Literature transmits incontrovertible condensed experience... from generation to generation. In this way literature becomes the living memory of a nation.
- Education
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- Nov 07, 2020
Yesterday in this country we had people die of hunger and malnutrition. In some parts of this country, the infant mortality rate rivals that of sub-Saharan Africa. We have a public education system that ranks below that of almost any other Western nation.
- Law
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- Nov 07, 2020
If we are to fulfill the promise of this great Nation that everybody in our society has equal access to the law, obviously having the resources to have access to the law is extremely important.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
I envision someday a great, peaceful South Africa in which the world will take pride, a nation in which each of many different groups will be making its own creative contribution.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
The concept of government of, by, and for the people isn't just a platitude. It's the moral construction of our nation. It's in our bones.
- Encourages
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- Nov 07, 2020