Nation Quotes

America was born a Christian nation.

We must hold to a rigid accountability those public servants who show unfaithfulness to the interests of the nation or inability to rise to the high level of the new demands upon our strength and our resources.

How can anyone govern a nation that has two hundred and forty-six different kinds of cheese?

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.

A battle lost or won is easily described, understood, and appreciated, but the moral growth of a great nation requires reflection, as well as observation, to appreciate it.

It is true of the Nation, as of the individual, that the greatest doer must also be a great dreamer.

My message to you is: build up physical strength not for aggression, not for militarism, but for becoming fighting fit, all your life and all the time in every walk of life of your nation wherever you be and always to be a force for peace, international amity and goodwill.

One can unite the French only under the threat of danger. One cannot simply bring together a nation that produces 265 kinds of cheese.

If the nation is not capable of preserving itself and reproducing, if it loses it vital bearings and ideals, then it doesn’t need foreign enemies – it will fall apart on its own.

Liberty is a great celestial Goddess, strong, beneficent, and austere, and she can never descend upon a nation by the shouting of crowds, nor by arguments of unbridled passion, nor by the hatred of class against class.