Nation Quotes

Remember, Christians, Negroes, black as Cain, /May be refin’d and join th’ angelic train.

When I was a young man, I was poor. In a war with other nations, I was in eighty-seven fights. There I received my name and was made Chief of my nation. But now I am old and am for peace.

Some years ago I said in an opinion that if this country is a melting pot, then either the Afro-Americans didn’t get in the pot or he didn’t get melted down.

A conservative young man has wound up his life before it was unreeled. We expect old men to be conservative but when a nation’s young men are so, its funeral bell is already rung.

The experience of every age and nation has proved it and we must in a great measure.

Every nation has a moral obligation to safeguard the future.

Human kindness has never weakened the stamina or softened the fiber of a free people. A nation does not have to be cruel to be tough.

Liberty is, to the lowest rank of every nation, little more than the choice of working or starving.

The beauty of America is people can do what they like.

Isn’t it strange how the leaders of nations can talk so eloquently about peace while they prepare for war? … There is no way to make peace while preparing for war.