Nation Quotes

I am not saying that I'm happy about what's going on right now in our nation, but I am at peace and I am comforted because I know that He's on the throne. That is good enough for me.

The American people do not care which Party solves the problems confronting our nation.

The United States is a nation of laws: badly written and randomly enforced.

We learned in World War II that no single nation holds a monopoly on wisdom, morality or right to power, but that we must fight for the weak and promote democracy.

Our nation's infrastructure needs are tremendous, and they're growing.

I was initially recruited while I was in business school back in the late sixties by the National Security Agency, the nation's largest and least understood spy organization; but ultimately I worked for private corporations.

Australia as a nation, as a set of cities and some regional centres, that project died a death and we didn't get it up, but I still think there's merit in that.

One of the chiefs of this nation, with his young men, escorted us to the Lake of the Illinois.

A leader who doesn't hesitate before he sends his nation into battle is not fit to be a leader.

Every nation has to follow a certain policy: Commercial, trade, various other types of policies.

We are a nation of immigrants, but we are also a nation of laws.

There never was and is not likely soon to be a nation of philosophers, nor am I certain it is desirable that there should be.

Legal abortion will never rest easy on this nation's conscience.

The founding document of the United States of America acknowledges the Lordship of Jesus Christ because we are a Christian nation.

America does not want vulgarity and sexual exploitation to be our values and we do not want the world to think those are our standards. We want to be a better nation and a better people, with better standards.

Few things are more important to each individual's future success or to our nation's prosperity than education.

Identity theft is one of the fastest-growing crimes in the nation - especially in the suburbs.

The goal of this Nation, I so strongly believe, is to be a preeminent world power. We have to understand what comes with that: The responsibility to be strong.

In the mind of Bill Clinton, political considerations outweigh even life-and-death matters of great concern to his own law-enforcement officials, not to mention the nation.

And these things are pretty much foundational: thou shall not kill, steal, bear false witness. All these things are embedded into the laws we enjoy in our nation.

In my view, there is nothing more vicious and outrageous than the abuse, exploitation and harm of the most vulnerable members of our society, and I firmly believe that our nation's laws and resources need to reflect the seriousness of these terrible crimes.

Every nation has its war party... It is commercial, imperialistic, ruthless. It tolerates no opposition.

I tell my brethren in Palestine: be patient and continue your blessed struggle. We did not forget you. We are still healing another wound in the Muslim nation, which is the occupation of our land by the Americans. Your battle and ours are one and the same.

Only when every one of us and every nation learns the secret of love for all mankind will the world become a great orchestra, following the beat of the Greatest Conductor of all.

As the family goes, so goes the nation and so goes the whole world in which we live.

In a brave new world, a post-September 11 world, anyone is going to make certain mistakes. The mistakes that have been made on homeland security, on protecting our Nation from another terrorist attack, are mistakes of omission. We are simply not doing enough.

Members of the Academy are mostly urban people. We are an urban nation. We are not a rural nation. It's not easy even to get a rural story made.

What Clinton did with Lewinsky was despicable but was no threat to the nation. That he lied about it repeatedly and to the public is a reason for us to cease to trust him and for him to resign.

The nation... doesn't simply need what we have. It needs what we are.

There are certain moments in the history of a nation when the choices made define the decades to come.