Quotes about Nation
Spiritually, we have marginalized the Bible. We've trivialized marriage, and we've neutralized the church. America today is in great turmoil. It feels like the soul of our nation has been taken from us.
— David Jeremiah
If Americans will face the truth, our nation can be turned around and can be saved from the evils and the destruction that have fallen upon every other nation that has turned its back on God.
— Jerry Falwell
The government is supposed to conform to our will. By taking the most important thing you have, your health and your health care, and turning that over to the government, you fundamentally shift the power, a huge chunk of it, from the people to the government. This is not the direction that we want the government to go in this nation.
— Ben Carson
A nation will rise no higher than the strength of its homes. If you want to reform a nation you begin with families.
— Gordon Hinckley
Poor is the nation that has no heroes, but poorer still is the nation that having heroes, fails to remember and honor them.
— Cicero
The life of the nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous.
— Frederick Douglass
A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual doom.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
A nation's strength is found not in the number of its laws but in the character of its people.
— James Montgomery Boice
Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure.
— Abraham Lincoln
For we no longer take up "sword against nation," nor do we "learn war any more," having become children of peace, for the sake of Jesus, who is our leader.
— Origen
When mass failure overtakes a nation, such as the 1929 world business depression, the circumstance is in perfect harmony with nature's plan to break up man's habits and give out fresh opportunities.
— Napoleon Hill
White guilt and the fear of speaking up concerning issues of race and morality is costing this nation greatly.
— Jesse Lee Peterson