Quotes
Quotes about Nation
What is the question now placed before society with the glib assurance which to me is most astonishing? That question is this: Is man an ape or an angel? I, my lord, I am on the side of the angels. I repudiate with indignation and abhorrence those new fangled theories.
Individualities may form communities, but it is institutions alone that can create a nation.
A sophisticated rhetorician, inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity and gifted with an egotistical imagination that can at all times command an interminable and inconsistent series of arguments to malign an opponent and to glorify himself.
I was told that the Privileged and the People formed Two Nations.
The Youth of a Nation are the trustees of Posterity.
Into a world unknown,--the corner-stone of a nation.
That this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom, and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.
With malice toward none; with charity for all; with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in; to bind up the nation's wounds, to care for him who shall have borne the battle, and for his widow and his orphan--to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves and with all nations.
The song that nerves a nation's heart
Is in itself a deed.
Wake in our breast the living fires,
The holy faith that warmed our sires;
Thy hand hath made our nation free;
To die for her is serving Thee.
One flag, one land, one heart, one hand,
One Nation evermore!
National injustice is the surest road to national downfall.
Inclination snatches arguments
To make indulgence seem judicious choice.
Once to every man and nation comes the moment to decide,
In the strife of Truth with Falsehood, for the good or evil side;
Earth's biggest country's gut her soul,
An' risen up earth's greatest nation.
Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character.
Youth, large, lusty, loving--Youth, full of grace, force, fascination!
Do you know that Old Age may come after you, with equal grace, force, fascination?
The day of small nations has passed away; the day of Empires has come.
He is an Englishman!
For he himself has said it,
And it's greatly to his credit,
That he's an Englishman!
For he might have been a Rooshian
A French or Turk or Proosian,
Or perhaps Itali-an.
But in spite of all temptations
To belong to other nations,
He remains an Englishman.
Not with dreams, but with blood and with iron,
Shall a nation be moulded at last.
It is beginning to be hinted that we are a nation of amateurs.
As long as war is regarded as wicked it will always have its fascinations. When it is looked upon as vulgar, it will cease to be popular.
Kings are not born: they are made by universal hallucination.
That minister of ministers,
Imagination, gathers up
The undiscovered Universe,
Like jewels in a jasper cup.
Our country! In her intercourse with foreign nations may she always be in the right; but our country, right or wrong.
