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
The decline of literature indicates the decline of a nation.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation.
Edmund Burke
The strength of a nation derives from the integrity of the home.
Confucius
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
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
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
Democratic nations must try to find ways to starve the terrorist and the hijacker of the oxygen of publicity on which they depend.
Margaret Thatcher
In a republican nation, whose citizens are to be led by reason and persuasion and not by force, the art of reasoning becomes of first importance
Thomas Jefferson
There is no calamity which a great nation can invite which equals that which follows a supine submission to wrong and injustice
Grover Cleveland
Great nations write their autobiographies in three manuscripts -- the book of their deeds, the book of their words and the book of their art.
John Ruskin
Poor nations are hungry, and rich nations are proud; and pride and hunger will ever be at variance.
Jonathan Swift