Nation Quotes

"Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this."
-Abraham Lincoln

"Herb is the healing of a nation, alcohol is the destruction."
-Bob Marley

"We don't bother much about dress and manners in England, because as a nation we don't dress well and we've no manners."
-George Bernard Shaw

"Make money and the whole nation will conspire to call you a gentleman."
-George Bernard Shaw

"No nation was ever drunk when wine was cheap."
-Thomas Jefferson

"It is well enough that the people of this nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning."
-Henry Ford

"It is impossible to rightly govern a nation without God and the Bible."
-George Washington

"I believe this nation should commit itself, to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to the earth."
-John F. Kennedy

"Let us think of education as the means of developing our greatest abilities, because in each of us there is a private hope and dream which, fulfilled, can be translated into benefit for everyone and greater strength for our nation."
-John F. Kennedy

"Individuals may form communities, but it is institutions alone that can create a nation."
-Benjamin Disraeli

"Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the act of depriving a whole nation of arms, as the blackest."
-Mahatma Ghandi

"Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the Act depriving a whole nation of arms, as the blackest."
-Mahatma Gandhi

"The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated."
-Mahatma Gandhi

"The nation that secures control of the air will ultimately control the world."
-Alexander Graham Bell

"No nation is fit to sit in judgement upon any other nation."
-Woodrow Wilson

"A nation that draws too broad a difference between its scholars and its warriors will have its thinking done by cowards, and its fighting done by fools."
-Thucydides

"America is not merely a nation but a nation of nations."
-Lyndon B. Johnson

"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 most essential instrument for civilizing the nations."
-John Adams

"A nation which can prefer disgrace to danger is prepared for a master, and deserves one."
-Alexander Hamilton

"It can not be emphasized too strongly or too often that this great nation was founded, not by religionists, but by Christians, not on religions, but on the gospel of Jesus Christ!"
-Patrick Henry

"Although our great man at the head of the nation, has changed his course, I will not change mine."
-Davy Crockett

"God is not on the side of any nation, yet we know He is on the side of justice. Our finest moments [as a nation] have come when we faithfully served the cause of justice for our own citizens, and for the people of other lands."
-George W. Bush

"Every nation in every region now has a decision to make. Either you are with us, or you are with the terrorists."
-George W. Bush

"Few people can be happy unless they hate some other person, nation, or creed."
-Bertrand Russell

"We expect tomorrow's mission to be a flawless conclusion to a program that has supported the nation for pretty much half a century."
-Pat Smith

"It's unreal. In a couple days it's really going to sink in that we did it, we're the best team in the nation."
-Tonton Balenga

"By carrying the torch, you will be bridging cultural and social barriers, and all the boundaries that separate nation from nation."
-Carl Lewis

"This sends a message that we should be monitoring this as a nation, and we don't do it. States have no idea about the knowledge and skills of their college graduates."
-Joni Finney