Nation Quotes

The Earth should not be cut up into hundreds of different sections, each inhabited by a self-defined segment of humanity that considers its own welfare and its own “national security” to be paramount above all other consideration.

No one built this country on their own. This nation is great because we built it together.

Through poetry we shall catch the conscience of a nation.

I think the Women’s movement has had a major impact on everybody’s lives in our nation and in the world as a whole.

The job, of course, will never be finished. For a nation, as for an individual, education is a perpetually unfinished journey, a continuing process of discovery.

It appears, accordingly, from the experience of all ages and nations, I believe, that the work done by freemen comes cheaper in the end than that performed by slaves.

I am ready to get to work and restore the soul of the nation.

For nations, history plays the role that character confers on human beings.

The essence of America – that which really unites us – is not ethnicity, or nationality or religion – it is an idea – and what an idea it is: That you can come from humble circumstances and do great things.

If we gave up our freedom as the price of security, we would no longer be the great nation that we are.