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A nation which makes the final sacrifice for life and freedom does not get beaten

Kemal Ataturk

It is clear our nation is reliant upon big foreign oil. More and more of our imports come from overseas.

George W. Bush

By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation.

Edmund Burke

A nation can assume that the addition of the words "under God" to its pledge of allegiance gives evidence that its citizens actually believe in God whereas all it really proves is that they believe in "believing" in God

Huston Smith

There is such a thing as a nation being so right that it it does not need to convince others by force that it is right

Woodrow T. Wilson

You can tell the ideals of a nation by its advertisements.

George Norman Douglas

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

The great nations have always acted like gangsters, and the small nations like prostitutes

Stanley Kubrick

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

Each nation feels superior to other nations. That breeds patriotism - and wars.

Dale Carnegie

The nation will find it very hard to look up to the leaders who are keeping their ears to the ground

Winston Churchill

If you want to study the social and political history of modern nations, study hell

Thomas Merton

Nations have recently been led to borrow billions for war; no nation has ever borrowed largely for education... no nation is rich enough to pay for both war and civilization. We must make our choice; we cannot have both.

Abraham Flexner

No nation is permitted to live in ignorance with impunity

Thomas Jefferson

I would rather belong to a poor nation that was free than to a rich nation that had ceased to be in love with liberty.

Woodrow T. Wilson

A nation as a society forms a moral person, and every member of it is personally responsible for his society

Thomas Jefferson

The decline of literature indicates the decline of a nation.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

A nation which has forgotten the quality of courage which in the past has been brought to public life is not as likely to insist upon or regard that quality in its chosen leaders today - and in fact we have forgotten.

John Fitzgerald Kennedy

The world has never yet seen a truly great and virtuous nation because in the degradation of woman the very fountains of life are poisoned at their source.

Lucretia Mott

No one can terrorize a whole nation, unless we are all his accomplices.

Edward R. Murrow

The strength of a nation derives from the integrity of the home.

Confucius

A nation reveals itself not only by the men it produces but also by the men it honors, the men it remembers

John Fitzgerald Kennedy

No matter how big a nation is, it is no stronger that its weakest people, and as long as you keep a person down, some part of you has to be down there to hold him down, so it means you cannot soar as you might otherwise

Marian Anderson

No nation has friends only interests

Charles de Gaulle

To poison a nation, poison its stories. A demoralised nation tells demoralised stories to itself. Beware of the storytellers who are not fully conscious of the importance of their gifts, and who are irresponsible in the application of their art: they

Ben Okri

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