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Our sons, pride of our nation, this day have set upon a mighty endeavor, a struggle to preserve our Republic, our religion, and our civilization, and to set free a suffering humanity
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
In this dedication of a Nation we humbly ask the blessing of God. May he protect each and every one of us. May He guide me in the days to come.
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
You cannot spill a drop of American blood without spilling the blood of the whole world.... We are not a nation, so much as a world.
— Herman Melville
You can't fall back on the private sector and say, 'You take care of the nation's banking system.' That's a fundamental function of the government, the Federal Reserve, the Treasury and the FDIC, etc. All of those agencies have a major role to play there.
— Dick Cheney
The separation of church and state is extremely important to any of us who hold to the original traditions of our nation. To change these traditions by changing our traditional attitude toward public education would be harmful, I think, to our whole attitude of tolerance in the religious area.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
The question is not whether we will be extremists, but what kind of extremists we will be... The nation and the world are in dire need of creative extremists.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
We've always been the most generous nation in the world when it comes to caring for those outside of our borders.
— Eric Metaxas
America is a giving nation and very compassionate.
— David Wilkerson
We're a nation of laws, but the good thing about America, is that laws reside in the people and people can change the laws.
— Rick Warren
The life of a nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous.
— Frederick Douglass
The feeling of the nation must be quickened; the conscience of the nation must be roused; the propriety of the nation must be startled; the hypocrisy of the nation must be exposed; and its crimes against God and man must be denounced.
— Frederick Douglass
Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty.
— John F. Kennedy