Quotes
Quotes about Nation
If you wish to prosper, let your customer prosper.When people have learned this lesson, everyone will seek his individual welfare in the general welfare. Then jealousies between man and man, city and city, province and province, nation and nation, will no longer trouble the world.
Oh! thus be it ever, when freemen stall stand Between their loved home and the war's desolation! Blest with victory and peace, may the heav'n rescued land Praise the Power that hath made and preserved us a nation! Then conquer we must when our cause it is just. And this be our motto, "In God is our trust!" And the star-spangled banner in triumph shall wave O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave.
"A song for our banner?"--The watchword recall Which gave the Republic her station; "United we stand--divided we fall!" It made and preserves us a nation!
This is the song of the wind as it came, Tossing the flags of the Nations to flame.
You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
There is such a thing as a nation being so right that it does not need to convince others by force that it is right.
The purpose of foreign policy is not to provide an outlet for our own sentiments of hope or indignation; it is to shape real events in a real world.
A nation of monkeys with the throat of parrots. [Fr., Une natione de singes a larynx de parroquets.]
Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of one another. -.
It is the awareness of unfulfilled desires which gives a nation the feeling that it has a mission and a destiny.
The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation . . . . A stereotyped but unconscious despair is concealed even under what are called the games and amusements of mankind.
Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations.
Generosity is a two-edged virtue for an artist - it nourishes his imagination but has a fatal effect on his routine.
To think, and to feel, constitute the two grand divisions of men of genius--the men of reasoning and the men of imagination.
Philosophy becomes poetry, and science imagination, in the enthusiasm of genius.
Genius is intensity. The man who gets anything worth having is the man who goes after his object as a bulldog goes after a cat - with every fiber in him tense with eagerness and determination.
BOUNDARY, n. In political geography, an imaginary line between two nations, separating the imaginary rights of one from the imaginary rights of the other.
Tasteful illumination of the night, Bright scattered, twinkling star of spangled earth.
Without goals, and plans to reach them, you are like a ship that has set sail with no destination.
Pursue one great decisive aim with force and determination.
I know that the Lord is always on the side of the right. But it is my constant anxiety and prayer that I and this nation should be on the Lord's side.
Goths don't identify with evil, we mourn the evil in society. The fascination with death is basically a reminder to us of our own mortality. For these reasons, we wear black.
Despotism tempered by assassination, that is our Magna Carta. [Fr., Le despotisme tempere par l'assassinat, c'est notre magna charta.]
. . . The manners of women are the surest criterion by which to determine whether a republican government is practicable in a nation or not.
And he that overcometh, and keepeth my works unto the end, to him will I give power over the nations: And he shall rule them with a rod of iron; as the vessels of a potter shall they be broken to shivers: even as I received of my Father.
