Quotes about nation
Mehmet Murat ildan -
Imperialism means raping other nations imperialist means rapist!
Norman Lockyer -
The nineteenth century will ever be known as the one in which the influences of science were first fully realised in civilised communities the scientific progress was so gigantic that it seems rash to predict that any of its successors can be more important in the life of any nation.
M.F. Moonzajer -
Leading a nation requires sacrifice justice is the first one.
Idowu Koyenikan -
Your pride for your country should not come after your country becomes great your country becomes great because of your pride in it.
Dan Lipinski -
On the battlefield, the military pledges to leave no soldier behind. As a nation, let it be our pledge that when they return home, we leave no veteran behind.
Robert Kennedy -
In my judgment, physical fitness is basic to all forms of excellence and to a strong, confident nation.
Marcus Garvey -
Our success educationally, industrially and politically is based upon the protection of a nation founded by ourselves. And the nation can be nowhere else but in Africa.
Jerry Costello -
This Nation has realized significant environmental improvements over the last three decades.
Lindsey Graham -
The sooner we get started with alternative energy sources and recognize that fossil fuels makes us less secure as a nation, and more dangerous as a planet, the better off we'll be.
Carl Sandburg -
When a nation goes down, or a society perishes, one condition may always be found; they forgot where they came from. They lost sight of what had brought them along.
Friedrich List -
Industry entirely left to itself, would soon fall to ruin, and a nation letting everything alone would commit suicide.
Ramez Naam -
Environmental concern is a phenomena that tends to rise in a nation after a certain level of wealth.
Muhammad Ali Jinnah -
That freedom can never be attained by a nation without suffering and sacrifice has been amply borne out by the recent tragic happenings in this subcontinent.
W. Somerset Maugham -
Any nation that thinks more of its ease and comfort than its freedom will soon lose its freedom and the ironical thing about it is that it will lose its ease and comfort too.
Mustafa Kemal Ataturk -
A nation which makes the final sacrifice for life and freedom does not get beaten.
J. D. Hayworth -
Therefore, if we are a Nation of laws and a Nation of immigrants, immigration should occur within a legal framework, not through the machinations of illegal schemes and scams that threaten our national security.
Jack Kingston -
Frivolous lawsuits are booming in this county. The U.S. has more costs of litigation per person than any other industrialized nation in the world, and it is crippling our economy.
R. D. Laing -
We are all murderers and prostitutes - no matter to what culture, society, class, nation one belongs, no matter how normal, moral, or mature, one takes oneself to be.
Rebecca Solnit -
We have a real role in how our own collective lives, our nation, and our world and society turn out. Seizing those opportunities is important, and disasters are sometimes one of those opportunities.
F. Sionil Jose -
The influence of teachers extends beyond the classroom, well into the future. It is they who shape and enrich the minds of the young, who touch their hearts and souls. It is they who shape a nation's future.
Ralph G. Neas -
The nation will be shaped for decades by decisions that are made by President Bush and the Senate about the future of the Supreme Court.
Ayn Rand -
Upper classes are a nation's past the middle class is its future.
Marian Wright Edelman -
A nation that does not stand for its children does not stand for anything and will not stand tall in the future.
Topsy Gift -
A free nation of good willed and hardworking people will be better developed than a nation of lazy people with good will but are bound
Steven Magee -
A psychologist would probably diagnose insanity for a nation that spends more on its military than the next 8 nations combined, while its poor are starving.
M.F. Moonzajer -
Right is what benefits a nation, even if it is against the will of the people.
M.F. Moonzajer -
The nation that honors a dancer more than a scholar is no more a nation.
M.F. Moonzajer -
What more you expect from a nation that honors a barbarian.
Sunday Adelaja -
We need to have a sense of patriotism like Jesus Christ, to the Kingdom first and to our nations second
Errol Anthony Smythe. -
What good is praying in public if you as an individual do not follow The Teachings of GOD'S Prophets in The Holy Bible ? Repent !
Lou Engle -
Before Elijah could raise a nation from the dead, he raised just one dead child.
Sunday Adelaja -
The transformation of a nation is impossible without God’s grace
Sunday Adelaja -
The most obvious question of every citizen who is responsible to his nation's transformation is, "What can I do in this situation?
Sunday Adelaja -
The transformation of a nation is impossible without God's grace.
Sunday Adelaja -
God's principles of national transformation will give the opportunity to make positive changes in the country, overcoming crisis in politics, economy, social services and other spheres.
Eric Hoffer -
The less justified a man is in claiming excellence for his own self, the more ready is he to claim all excellence for his nation, his religion, his race or his holy cause.
Lailah Gifty Akita - Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind
How can the nation be mightier, without unity of its citizens?
M.F. Moonzajer -
If you fight for yourself, you have awakened your conscience, but if you fight for people you will awaken a nation.
Sunday Adelaja -
The eyes of a nation (living godly) like this shall see the King of kings and the Lord of lords in all his beauty. Meaning salvation and redemption shall be readily available in abundance for the people of that land.
Sunday Adelaja -
God’s Jewish nation did not understand his divine priority for the kingdom
Sunday Adelaja -
Our active civil position will lead us to the manifestation of the glory of God in our nation
Itō Hirobumi -
Even if you succeed in study and business, if your nation collapses, then what good is it for?
Sunday Adelaja -
In order to be a deliverer you need to make a decision to be baptized into the nation
Abhijit Naskar -
No nation can truly develop unless fanaticism, primitive superstitions and metaphysical non-sense are eradicated.
Brian Bilston -
America Is A GunEngland is a cup of tea. France, a wheel of ripened brie.Greece, a short, squat olive tree.America is a gun.Brazil is football on the sand.Argentina, Maradona's hand.Germany, an oompah band.America is a gun.Holland is a wooden shoe.Hungary, a goulash stew.Australia, a kangaroo.America is a gun.Japan is a thermal spring.Scotland is a highland fling.Oh, better to be anythingthan America as a gun.
Terry Pratchett - Nation
...You want a special truth. *You* want the truth to be a truth that *you* like. You want it to be a pretty little truth that fits what you already believe!
Marjane Satrapi -
I believe that am entire nation should not be judged by the wrongdoings of a few extremists.
Sunday Adelaja -
If a nation succeeds in making her people strong in virtues, then the nation is rich already.
Nynke Visser -
Everything we do in life reflects through the virtues of a nation. For example if a nation is ruled through Fear, the Manifestation of War rises; If a nation is ruled through Love, War would not exist and Harmony would find its way.
Sunday Adelaja -
The day to day corruption that is carried out everywhere in the country, from the streets to the offices are as detrimental to the nation as any other form of corruption.
Sunday Adelaja -
For a nation to be corruption free, that culture must first be created through the proclamation and propaganda of a correspondent value system.
Sunday Adelaja -
When you give up your desires for the cause of making God known, revealing Him to your nation, you will surely be rewarded
Robert Ferrigno - Heart of the Assassin
Kill the heroes and you kill the soul of a nation.
Sunday Adelaja -
The bread of such a nation (living godly) shall be in constant supply. Talking of abundance, provision, prosperity, surplus etc.
Sunday Adelaja -
The church is called to activate the position of the believers in saving the nation for God’s glory
Sunday Adelaja -
The church is called by God to become God’s agent of deliverance in every nation
Sunday Adelaja -
The church is God's remnant in a country, able to change the life of the nation
Aniruddha Sastikar -
Be wary of those propagating too much about liberty, ideology, and civility; they just might be oppressors in the making.
Sunday Adelaja -
Your lifestyle should show some form of responsibility for the nation where you were born and/or the nation where you live
José Rizal - Noli Me Tángere
I have observed that the prosperity or misery of each people is in direct proportion to its liberties or its prejudices and, accordingly, to the sacrifices or the selfishness of its forefathers. -Juan Crisostomo Ibarra
Jeffrey G. Duarte -
...a broken nation, under siege, divisible, without liberty and injustice for a lot...
Marquis De Lafayette -
True republicanism is the sovereignty of the people. There are natural and imprescriptible rights which an entire nation has no right to violate.
Sara Niles -
I smelled war on the horizon, with more deaths and trouble to come" Bombing of the Twin TowersFrom Rape of a Nation by Sara Niles
Jacob M. Appel - The Man Who Wouldn't Stand Up
Arnold had never given much thought to whether or not he loved America—but now it seemed pretty obvious to him that he didn’t. Not in the way Nathan Hale had loved America. Or even in the way his late father, a Dutch-Jewish refugee, had loved America. In fact, he found the idea of sacrificing his life for his country somewhat abhorrent. Moreover, it wasn’t that he disliked abstract loyalties in general. He loved New York, for instance: Senegalese takeout at three a.m., and strolling through the
Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha -
Every part of Nigeria is blessed.
Theodore Roosevelt -
Peace is normally a great good, and normally it coincides with righteousness, but it is righteousness and not peace which should bind the conscience of a nation as it should bind the conscience of an individual; and neither a nation nor an individual can surrender conscience to another's keeping.
Sunday Adelaja -
Miracle centered gospels do more damage than good to the listeners and nation.
Conn Iggulden - Khan: Empire of Silver
If he had learned anything from his father’s fate, it was to win, no matter how you did it. It was not important if someone else was hurt, or killed. If you won, you would be forgiven anything. You could be taken from a stinking ger and forced through the ranks until a thousand men followed your orders as if they came from the khan himself. Blood and talent. The nation was built on both.
Sunday Adelaja -
The religion or pulpit of a nation is the most powerful source of value formation in any country. Followed by the family, the educational system and the media.
Sunday Adelaja -
The ambiance of every environment in a country is the value system of the given nation. It is that culture that influences how citizens of a nation react, respond and behave among themselves in regards to politics, commerce, family and social life.
Sunday Adelaja -
Our people must be taught to desist from accepting bribes. The ability to say NO, must become a core value of our nation
Jake Danishevsky - AfterTastes and Tales from Russia
My family came to this country to take advantage of opportunity, not to take advantage of America.
Laura Ingalls Wilder - Farmer Boy
It was muskets that won the Revolution. And don't forget it was axes, and plows that made this country.- Father Wilder
Sunday Adelaja -
The eyes of such a nation (living godly) shall view a land that stretches afar. Talking about global influence, authority, dignity and respect.
Steven Magee -
If you want to radiation poison a nation, just start shipping them cheap ionizing smoke detectors for the home with a little too much radiation in them.
Sunday Adelaja -
The government of any nation always represents the most corrupt part of a nation
Christian D. Larson -
To keep any great nation up to a high standard of civilization there must be enough superior characters to hold the balance of power, but the very moment the balance of power gets into the hands of second-rate men and women, a decline of that nation is inevitable.
Sunday Adelaja -
The virtues of character, behavioural patterns determine how great a nation and people are.
Chris Matakas - The Tao of Jiu Jitsu
We are the estranged orphans of our nations and tribes, and we now bear the weight not of survival of the group but of personal identity.
Sunday Adelaja -
We need to teach our nation to detest any form of plots, insinuations, evil intrigues and violence.
Terry Pratchett - Nation
Silence fell like a hammer made of feathers. It left holes in the shape of the sound of the sea.
Sunday Adelaja -
For a nation to be truly great, she must first identify her national values, enumerate her virtues and formulate her value system. But the most tasking of all these is to develop a culture in her people, that will best represent the proclaimed value systems of the nation.
Sunday Adelaja -
Any nation that wishes to enjoy the fruits of development and civilization, must follow the golden rules of this scripture as a national policy and culture.
Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha -
Nations rise and fall, flourish and decay, by what they believe in and by what their culture stands for.
Conn Iggulden - Khan: Empire of Silver
The nation of my father is too strong for a man who cannot command even his own body.
M.F. Moonzajer -
Misery and poverty of a nation is associated with the conscious of its people not leaders.
Stanisław Pigoń -
We belong to a nation, whose fate is to shoot at the enemy with diamonds.
Louis L'Amour - Brionne
...if we are to become a land of homes and people, evil men must not be allowed to persist in their evil.
Sunday Adelaja -
If the churches, mosques and other religious centres could come together to embrace a nation’s value system, and then set out to disciple the nation in these values and virtues, then the greatness of such a nation is inevitable.
Victor Dunsin -
A nation that is built on war will forever have conflict.
Sunday Adelaja -
When truth and honesty is absent in the nation, it relates not just to the politicians.
Sunday Adelaja -
Truth and honesty are some of the most powerful principles to developing a nation.
Sunday Adelaja -
One of the secrets a nation can unlock to have material wealth is, having a leader who will take an uncompromising stand to establish truth and honesty as a rule of building the nation
Frederick Douglass -
A smile or a tear has not nationality; joy and sorrow speak alike to all nations, and they, above all the confusion of tongues, proclaim the brotherhood of man
M. Fethullah Gülen - and Belief
Nations that can manage to develop their language and make it accommondating while at the same time staying faithful to the roots of it are the most communicative societies that are also most dynamic in thought.
Sunday Adelaja -
It is time for us to move on to our promised land!!! It’s time to begin to believe that with God on our side we can build a prosperous nation and continent
Sunday Adelaja -
It’s time to begin to believe that with God on our side we can build a prosperous nation and continent.
Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha -
Until our education system is repositioned to take care of the tripartite nature of a human being - head, heart and hand, we cannot make healthy progress as a nation or individuals.
Sunday Adelaja -
When truth and honesty is successfully intertwined into the business world of a nation, the result is a boost in commerce.