Quotes about Nation

The world does need changing, society needs changing, the nation needs changing, but we never will change it until we ourselves are changed.

Abraham Lincoln once said, "The strength of a nation lies in the people—in the homes of the people."

The entire world is in turmoil. We are living in a time of enormous conflict and cultural transformation. We have been stunned by shockwaves of change in nation after nation, all around the globe.

During the whole of the Reconstruction period our people throughout the South looked to the Federal Government for everything, very much as a child looks to its mother. This was not unnatural. The central government gave them freedom, and the whole Nation had been enriched for more than two centuries by the labour of the Negro.

I distrust the rash optimism in this country that cries, "Hurrah, we're all right! This is the greatest nation on earth," when there are grievances that call loudly for redress.

The saga of a nation is the saga of its families written large. And whoever owns the family owns the future.

We are a nation founded as a rebuke to tyranny. A nation of revolutionaries who refused sovereign reign from afar. Hear me - we're a nation that says give us your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free. A nation built on our differences, guided by the belief that we're all created equal.

But unscrupulous ambition has nothing to work upon, save in a nation corrupted by avarice and luxury.

Righteousness exalts a nation, and sin brings reproach.

This is a nation that loves our freedom, loves our country.

The Wild, Wild West, this cyberterrorism. This new, scary frontier. Anyone sitting on a couch in his underwear could undermine the security of a nation.

The Iraqis have become invested in their nationhood.