Nation Quotes

There comes a time, there comes a time in the history of nations when fear and complacency allow power to accumulate and liberty and privacy to suffer. That time is now and I will not let the Patriot Act, the most unpatriotic of acts go unchallenged.

Peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none

In 10 years, this sleepy Canada will be ripe for annexation – the farmers in Manitoba, etc., will demand it themselves. Besides, the country is half annexed already socially – hotels, newspapers, advertising, etc., all on the American pattern.

Pity the nation that has to silence its writers for speaking their minds. Pity the nation that needs to jail those who ask for justice, while communal killers, mass murderers, corporate scamsters, looters, rapists, and those who prey on the poorest of the poor, roam free.

Today I challenge our nation to commit to producing 100 percent of our electricity from renewable energy and truly clean carbon-free sources within 10 years.

My sense of humor will always stand in the way of my seeing myself, my family, my race or my nation as the whole intent of the universe.

I am going to build the kind of nation that President Roosevelt hoped for, President Truman worked for, and President Kennedy died for.

Outside the kingdom of the Lord there is no nation which is greater than any other. God and history will remember your judgment.

Great nations are never impoverished by private, though they sometimes are by public prodigality and misconduct.

A nation which can prefer disgrace to danger is prepared for a master, and deserves one.