The nation which forgets its defenders will be itself forgotten.
Calvin Coolidge
Patriotism means unqualified and unwavering love for the nation, which implies not uncritical eagerness to serve, not support for unjust claims, but frank assessment of its vices and sins, and penitence for them
Alexander Solzhenitsyn
If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom; and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that too
William Somerset Maugham
A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual death.
Martin Luther King Jr
We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values. For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people
John F. Kennedy
The destiny of any nation at any given time depends on the opinion of its young people, those under twenty-five.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Volunteering creates a national character in which the community and the nation take on a spirit of compassion, comradeship and confidence.
Brian O'Connell
Volunteers are the only human beings on the face of the earth who reflect this nation's compassion, unselfish caring, patience, and just plain love for one another.
Erma Bombeck
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
Idi Amin Dada
We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values. For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is afraid of its people.
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
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.
Dalai Lama
A self-respecting nation is ready for anything, including war, except for a renunciation of its option to make war.
Simone Weil
The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages is preserved into perpetuity by a nation's proverbs, fables, folk sayings and quotations.
William Feather