Nation Quotes

The highest percentage of African Americans own their own homes today than ever in our nation's history.

A nation devoid of art and artists cannot have a full existence.

The challenges of change are always hard. It is important that we begin to unpack those challenges that confront this nation and realize that we each have a role that requires us to change and become more responsible for shaping our own future.

The Japanese keenly learned from Western civilisation in a bid to modernize and preserve the nation.

While we remain a nation decisively shaped by religious faith, our politics and our culture are, in the main, less influenced by movements and arguments of an explicitly Christian character than they were even five years ago. I think this is a good thing - good for our political culture.

You know, we - if, for example, Jerry Brown can withstand, you know, what will probably end up being $200 million of spending by his opponent and get elected governor of California, that will be a big victory in the nation's largest state.

America is moving forward and gaining strength. We have been tested, and we have proven ourselves to be a tough, resilient and resourceful nation.

Mr. Speaker, our Nation depends on immigrants' labor, and I hope we can create an immigration system as dependable as they are.

Every nation whose affairs betray a want of wisdom and stability may calculate on every loss which can be sustained from the more systematic policy of its wiser neighbors.

Sending our young men and women into battle is perhaps the most serious course of action a Nation can undertake.

If we ever forget that we are One Nation Under God, then we will be a nation gone under.

Governing a great nation is like cooking a small fish - too much handling will spoil it.

A civilized nation can have no enemies, and one cannot draw a line across a map, a line that doesn't even exist in nature and say that the ugly enemy lives on the one side, and good friends live on the other.

What do we, as a nation, care about books? How much do you think we spend altogether on our libraries, public or private, as compared with what we spend on our horses?

There is nothing more important to our Nation's future, to our homeland security, and to our economy than ensuring we have a top-notch educational system that is the envy of the world.

The people gave me the responsibility of building the future of this nation. And I did it with honor.

We should be dreaming. We grew up as kids having dreams, but now we're too sophisticated as adults, as a nation. We stopped dreaming. We should always have dreams.

The fey in this country keep to themselves, and are a separate nation, much like the American Indians, but with even more autonomy.

The United States is historically a nation of immigrants.

The importance to the nation of a generously adequate food supply for the coming year cannot be overemphasized, in view of the economic problems which may arise as a result of the entrance of the United States into the war.

In recent years, breweries and brew pubs have flourished across the Nation. And, as the Representative from Oregon's fourth district, I have enjoyed seeing the diversity that craft brewery has fueled across the Nation.

The three great ends which a statesman ought to propose to himself in the government of a nation, are one, Security to possessors; two, facility to acquirers; and three, hope to all.

By failing seriously to confront the most predicable economic crisis in our nation's history, the President's policies are committing us and our children to a diminished future.

The five million people who watch cable news are the political nation, the people who really care.

To the socialist no nation is free whose national existence is based upon the enslavement of another people, for to him colonial peoples, too, are peoples, and, as such, parts of the national state.

One of the strengths of our nation has always been a strong middle class who could afford their own homes and send their children to school.

There is no force like success, and that is why the individual makes all effort to surround himself throughout life with the evidence of it; as of the individual, so should it be of the nation.

It's our destiny to explore. It's our destiny to be a space-faring nation.

We reserve our deepest respect and admiration for those who volunteer for service and give their lives to help keep our nation secure.

It is the awareness of unfulfilled desires which gives a nation the feeling that it has a mission and a destiny.