63 All Time Best Nation Quotes
A Nation refers to a group of people who feel bound into a single body by shared culture, values, folkways, religion and/or language.
1. A nation should not be judged by how it treats its highest citizens, but it's lowest ones.
Nelson Mandela
2. Because I expected so little, Gaines’s painting is startlingly powerful. A lank-haired blond woman with a hard face sits at a kitchen table in the harsh light of a bare bulb. She’s surrounded by dirty cereal bowls and fast-food bags, and her shirt is open to the waist, revealing small sagging breasts. Her hollow eyes look out from the canvas with the sullen resignation of an animal that has helped build its own cage. It’s hard to imagine such truthful art coming from the creature standing across the room, but talent isn’t handed out on a merit system.
Gerg Iles
3. Your pride for your country should not come after your country becomes great; your country becomes great because of your pride in it.
Idowu Koyenikan
4. A nation may be said to consist of its territory, its people, and its laws. The territory is the only part which is of certain durability.
Abraham Lincoln
5. It's time to build a new nation.
Empyr (Birth Acoustic Version)
6. Herb is the healing of a nation, alcohol is the destruction.
Bob Marley
7. The United States is a nation of laws badly written and randomly enforced.
Frank Zappa
8. If you travel internationally, you will feel shocked by contemptuous talk of America. To hear your fellow citizens characterized as barbarians who know nothing of love, food, health, and religion, but everything of lawsuits, fast food, and guns, is to experience a national fidelity of which you may not have thought yourself capable. And yet, you’re at a loss for a defense.
Hilary Thayer Hamann
9. The United Nations cannot stand by and witness the destruction of the people of West Papua.
Bernard Dowiyogo
10. Right afterward I read Fast Food Nation. That book changed my life. It made me a vegetarian.
Amber Tamblyn
11. We are a small nation, but strong.
Moshe Dayan
12. To conquer a nation, first disarm its citizens.
Adolf Hitler
13. The very strength of a nation eventually proves to be its weakness.
Paul Harris
14. Govern a great nation as you would cook a small fish. Do not overdo it.
Lao Tzu
15. But I am sure also that from a political point of view, and from a social point of view the federal link, without infringing the sovereignty of any of the nations which might take part in such as association, could be beneficial.
Aristide Briand
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16. American is the first democratic nation-state.
Stephen Ambrose
17. No nation was ever ruined by trade.
Benjamin Franklin
18. We are under exercised as a nation. We look instead of play. We ride instead of walk. Our existence deprives us of the minimum of physical activity essential for healthy living.
John F. Kennedy
19. Smoke the pipe of peace, bury the tomahawk, and become one nation.
Zebulon Pike
20. I felt invincible. My strength was that of a giant. God was certainly standing by me. I smashed five saloons with rocks before I ever took a hatchet.
Carry Nation
21. Even if I died in the service of the nation, I would be proud of it. Every drop of my blood… will contribute to the growth of this nation and to make it strong and dynamic.
Indira Gandhi
22. Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty
John F. Kennedy
23. The country doesn't deserve anything less than Success from us.Let us aim for success.
APJ Abdul Kalam
24. When a nation is surrounded by weaponized nations, she has to equip herself.
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
25. We are the first nation in the history of the world to go to the poor house in an automobile.
Will Rogers
26. The Youth of a Nation are the trustees of posterity.
Benjamin Disraeli
27. The first requisite for the progress of a nation is the brotherhood and unity amongst sections of the society. Syed Ahmed Khan
28. When you educate a woman, you educate a nation.
Hafez Ibrahim
29. A nation's culture resides in the hearts and in the soul of its people.
Mahatma Gandhi
30. Governing a great nation is like cooking a small fish – too much handling will spoil it.
Lao Tzu
31. Discontent is the first step in the progress of a man or a nation.
Oscar Wilde
32. The greatness of a nation can be judged by the way its animals are treated.
Mahatma Gandhi
33. A nation's treasure is in its scholars
Anonymous
We rise and fall as one people, one nation. Barack Obama
34. My Parents Shared Not Only An Imporabable Love They Shared An Abiding Faith In The Possibilities Of This Nation. Barack Obama
35. Nation of sheep, ruled by wolves, owned by pigs
Anonymous
36. A war for a great principle ennobles a nation.
Albert Pike
37. A nation without a religion – that is like a man without breath.
Joseph Goebbels
38. Freedom In Mind, Faith In Words. Pride In Our Hearts And Memories In Our Souls. Let'S Salute The Nation On Independence day
Anonymous
39. The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated.
Mahatma Gandhi
40. Those who want to reap the benefits of this great nation must bear the fatigue of supporting it.
Thomas Paine
41. The great nations have always acted like gangsters, and the small nations like prostitutes.
Stanley Kubrick
42. A nation's culture resides in the hearts and in the soul of its people.
Mahatma Gandhi
43. To survive in peace and harmony, united and strong, we must have one people, one nation, one flag.
Pauline Hanson
44. Men are nicotine soaked, beer besmirched, whiskey greased, red-eyed devils.
Carrie Nation
45. Our nation's security, economy, and place on the world stage depends on the success our educational system. Ed Markey
46. The great nation is a nation that respects the services of their heroes.
Soekarno
47. The life of the nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous.
Frederick Douglass
48. A nation has character only when it is free.
Madame De Steal
49. The strength of a nation derives from the integrity of the home.
Confucius
50. Whatever the cost of our libraries, the price is cheap compared to that of an ignorant nation.
Walter Cronkite
51. A great nation is a compassionate nation.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
52. A nation of sheep will beget a government of wolves.
Edward R. Murrow
53. When a nation is filled with strife, then do patriots flourish.
Lao Tzu
54. A Nation of Sheep will be ruled by Pigs
Anonymous
55. After all, you’re not exactly a nation like all the other nations. You are unique, if only because you are such an ancient people, and because of the way you are spread all over the world and your obvious success in many fields. Jean-Marie Le Pen
56. Probably, no nation is rich enough to pay for both war and civilization. We must make our choice; we cannot have both.
Abraham Flexner
57. The strength of a nation is not measured by the size of its army, but by how it treats the weakest members of its society
Anonymous
58. I head a nation of a million presidents.
Chaim Weizmann
59. Every nation ridicules other nations, and all are right.
Arthur Schopenhauer
60. If we ever forget that we are One Nation Under God, then we will be a nation gone under. Ronald Reagan
61. We fight now–this great nation fights now to save ourselves and our children from living in a world of fear. We fight now because we will not permit the terrorists, these vicious and evil men, to hijack a peaceful religion and to impose their will on America and the world. We fight now, and we will keep on fighting until our victory is complete.
A. Bush
62. We rise and fall as one people, one nation.
Barack Obama