We can pull down a nation if we can make them believe that education is not important. If they believe that it is important and begin to act on their belief, then there is nothing...

I found Americans arrogant, Germans rude, Britishers selfish, Frenchs desperate, Chinese worried and my own nation stupid.

Those words . . . national and portrait. They were both to do with identity: the identity of a culture (place, language and history), the identity of an individual human being as an object for...

Not only must Americans admire Israel, there can be no doubt that we have an interest in, and special responsibility for, that valiant nation.

The nation was awakened by that deafening shot.

I think Maine needs people. It needs diversity. It needs to be able to respect people. Openness is crucial for this state because we don’t want to be known for having the oldest state in...

I do not belong to a nation because I speak the same language as they do; I belong to them because I feel the same pain as they did.

If a nation’s security is only as strong as its weakest link, then America may be in serious trouble. Hawaii may be our weakest link and could have a serious impact on our nation’s immigration...

He who is the author of a war lets loose the whole contagion of hell and opens a vein that bleeds a nation to death.

Dans un pays où les décideurs s’évertuent à construire une villa à leurs rejetons là où il est question de leur b tir une nation, il n’est pas rare de rencontrer des talents chevronnés trimer...

When you won that title you should know now that you are representing a whole country or nation with your actions and you are now in a glass house or under a microscope and you...

India is not a capitalist nation and should never be a capitalist nation.

Even if you succeed in study and business, if your nation collapses, then what good is it for?

Greece has given Europe the opportunity to fix a defect in the euro zone, that is the fact that we did not have a fiscal union. Now steps have been taken to begin that process....

Međutim, onaj ko ne voli pripadnike drugih naroda, ne voli, naglasio sam, ni svoj narod, te ako kažem da ne volim strance, ja u isto vreme priznajem da živim u praznini, lišen bilo čije ljubavi....

To make democracy work, we must be a nation of participants, not simply observers. One who does not vote has no right to complain.

The government of Iran has no problem with the American nation.

American audiences tend to underappreciate the British, but 240 years ago they were us: They were the most powerful nation on Earth. Their mercantile empire spanned the planet. They had the most potent and experienced...

We may consider each generation as a distinct nation, with a right, by the will of its majority, to bind themselves, but none to bind the succeeding generation, more than the inhabitants of another country.

Every artist is a man who has freed himself from his family, his nation, his race. Every man who has shown the world the way to beauty, to true culture, has been a rebel, a...

Conquerors never, never conquer a nation to bring freedom. They brought control.

Your pride for your country should not come after your country becomes great; your country becomes great because of your pride in it.

Infrastructure sector is all about building assets for the country. It is part of nation building.

Leading a nation requires sacrifice; justice is the first one.

The coffers are full of money and equipment for the Ferguson Police and the Missouri National Guard to put down a potential uprising, but no money for actually uplifting the people of Ferguson, St. Louis,...

The Hebrews have done more to civilize men than any other nation. If I were an atheist, and believed blind eternal fate, I should still believe that fate had ordained the Jews to be the...

Someday, I hope that we will all be patriots of our planet and not just of our respective nations.

The United States is historically a nation of immigrants.

Patriotism is, fundamentally, a conviction that a particular country is the best in the world because you were born in it….

Manners are the hypocrisy of a nation.

Americans have been taught that their nation is civilized and humane. But, too often, U.S. actions have been uncivilized and inhumane.

Every nation sincerely desires peace; and all nations pursue courses which if persisted in, must make peace impossible.

I refer, of course, to the debts our nation has amassed for itself over decades of indulgence. It is the new Red Menace, this time consisting of ink. We can debate its origins endlessly and...

To be called a sovereign nation, a nation has to be able to control its own borders. It is controlling your own destiny in a way, and we don’t control our own borders.

I am no enemy of Nepal being a fully literate society. It is a good thing for society and the nation as a whole.

The history of Germany is not the history of a nation, but of a race. It has little unity, therefore; it is complicated, broken, and attached on all sides to the histories of other countries.

Be wary of those propagating too much about liberty, ideology, and civility; they just might be oppressors in the making.

Inside your dream is a nation. To the rest of the world it is invisible, yet it is the only thing you see. It is your imagination.

Serbia has become a pariah nation, untouchable like a leper.

Japan is a great nation. It should begin to act like one.

It’s one of the nice things about this nation that when the Constitution is violated, if it affects you, you can bring a suit.

If our nation wants to reduce global warming, air pollution and energy instability, we should invest only in the best energy options. Nuclear energy isn’t one of them.

Washington’s character was rock solid. He came to stand for the new nation and its republican virtues, which was why he became our first President by unanimous choice.

The longer a nation’s history, the more wars, invasions, wanderings, and periods of captivity it has seen-the greater the diversity of its faces.

Bureaucrats and Politicians are different people, work of Bureaucrats makes us hate Politicians.

Elected representatives are so embedded in the basic notion of what constitutes a democratic nation that it has become indistinguishable from any other form of democratic governance.

The less justified a man is in claiming excellence for his own self, the more ready is he to claim all excellence for his nation, his religion, his race or his holy cause.

Whatever the job is, we can do it. That’s why the nation has a Marine Corps.

Misery and poverty of a nation is associated with the conscious of its people not leaders.

A budget should reflect the values and priorities of our nation and its people.