Nation Quotes

A government is invigorated when each of us is willing to participate in shaping the future of this nation.

Today we affirm a new commitment to live out our nation's promise through civility, courage, compassion and character.

Congress must make it clear that common animal waste will not expose farmers to liability under Superfund, while ensuring continued action to clean up legitimate hazardous waste sites around the nation.

Throughout the history of our young nation, we have seen our military go bravely into battle, armed with courage and willing to make the ultimate sacrifice.

Now is the time for us to strike. We must strengthen our foothold in Asia, to ensure no nation overtakes us.

Stay with us, please remain in this country and constitute a nation based on national unity.

I had faith in Israel before it was established, I have in it now. I believe it has a glorious future before it - not just another sovereign nation, but as an embodiment of the great ideals of our civilization.

When you reduce taxes on higher earners it's vital to be reducing them on lower earning people as well so the nation shares in the approach.

Obama ran on a platform of unmitigated optimism - a promise to usher in a brighter day for America. But there could hardly be a greater contrast between his pledge and his performance in office, between his commitment to the nation and his current abandonment of all hope.

I support development and deployment of a limited national missile defense. Few if any of our duties surpass our obligation to provide for the common defense of our nation.

Agitation is the marshalling of the conscience of a nation to mold its laws.

Today, more than ever before, life must be characterized by a sense of Universal responsibility, not only nation to nation and human to human, but also human to other forms of life.

To have united the purposes of an entire Nation, is the great historical achievement of the man in whose strong hands our President has placed the fate of our people.

Well, you know, I think in conversations with members of the Senate and others, they all recognize that the issue of immigration is important. It's important to our nation, it's important to our public safety, it's important to our security, it's important to our economic well-being moving forward. And it's not something that's going to go away.

If we don't believe in Americans, who will? I do believe. I've seen it in the people of our very typical corner of the nation.

Few would venture to deny the advantages of temperance in increasing the efficiency of a nation at war.

The security of our nation depends on the men and women who are willing to sacrifice their safety, and possibly their lives, to protect the freedoms the rest of us enjoy.

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.

We're a nation of laws, but the good thing about America, is that laws reside in the people and people can change the laws.

In any country there must be people who have to die. They are the sacrifices any nation has to make to achieve law and order.

It's quite extraordinary to hear a supposedly learned person call the United States a leading terrorist nation, one of the leading terrorist nations in the world. It's false and very treacherous teaching.

I will devote my body and soul to the service of the people and the nation.

You cannot speak on behalf of a nation when you have no mandate to do so.

A nation or civilization that continues to produce soft-minded men purchases its own spiritual death on the installment plan.

This nation will remain the land of the free only so long as it is the home of the brave.

As America celebrates Memorial Day, we pay tribute to those who have given their lives in our nation's wars.

Mr. Speaker, less than 10 percent of our Nation's children walk or ride their bicycles to school, and too many schools continue to invite fast-food vendors into their cafeterias.

A nation that destroys its soils destroys itself. Forests are the lungs of our land, purifying the air and giving fresh strength to our people.

It's the quality of the ordinary, the straight, the square, that accounts for the great stability and success of our nation. It's a quality to be proud of. But it's a quality that many people seem to have neglected.

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