| "My friends and my road-fellows, pity the nation that is full of beliefs and empty of religion. Pity the nation that wears a cloth it does not weave, eats a bread it does not harvest, and drinks a wine that flows not from its own winepress. Pity the nation that acclaims the bully as hero, and that deems the glittering conqueror bountiful. Pity the nation that raises not its voice save when it walks in a funeral, boasts not except among its ruins, and will rebel not save when its neck is laid between the sword and the block. Pity the nation whose statesman is a fox, whose philosopher is a juggler, and whose art is the art of patching and mimicking. Pity the nation that welcomes its new ruler with trumpetings, and farewells him with hootings, only to welcome another with trumpetings again. Pity the nation divided into fragments, each fragment deeming itself a nation." »Kahlil Gibran |
| "The one absolutely certain way of bringing this nation to ruin, of preventing all possibility of continuing to be a nation at all would be to permit it to become a tangle of squabbling nationalities." »Theodore Roosevelt |
| "And He shall judge among the nations, and shall rebuke many people and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more." »Isaiah |
| "No nation is fit to sit in judgement upon any other nation." »Woodrow Wilson |
| "America is not merely a nation but a nation of nations." »Lyndon B. Johnson |
| "Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth upon this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal...We here highly resolve that the dead shall not have died in vain, that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom and that government of the people, by the people, and for the people, shall not perish from the earth." »Abraham Lincoln |
| "We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values. For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people." »John Fitzgerald Kennedy |
| "If there is light in the soul, There will be beauty in the person. If there is beauty in the person, There will be harmony in the house. If there is harmony in the house, There will be order in the nation. If there is order in the nation, There will be peace in the world." »Chinese Proverb |
| "No one can terrorize a whole nation, unless we are all his accomplices." »Edward R. Murrow |
| "You can tell the ideals of a nation by its advertisements." »Norman Douglas |
| "No nation was ever ruined by trade." »Benjamin Franklin |
| "You can tell the ideas of a nation by it's advertisements." »Douglas South Wind |
| "Every nation ridicules other nations, and all are right." »Arthur Schopenhauer |
| "A little one shall become a thousand, and a small one a strong nation." »Isaiah IX.22 Bible |
| "It will, I believe, be everywhere found, that as the clergy are, or are not what they ought to be, so are the rest of the nation." »Jane Austen |
| "The state has no business in the bedrooms of the nation." »Pierre Elliott Trudeau |
| "The nation which forgets its defenders will be itself forgotten." »Calvin Coolidge |
| "A good newspaper, I suppose, is a nation talking to itself." »Arthur Miller |
| "No one flower can ever symbolize this nation. America is a bouquet." »William Safire |
| "Now I shall return to my village and there will remain at the disposition of the nation." »Charles De Gaulle |
| "A statesman is a politician who places himself at the service of the nation. A politician is a statesman who places the nation at his service." »Georges Pompidou |
| "Neither man or nation can exist without a sublime idea." »Fyodor Dostoevsky |
| "How can anyone govern a nation that has 246 different kinds of cheese" »Charles De Gaulle |
| "I believe the destiny of your generation-and your nation-is a rendezvous with excellence." »Lyndon B. Johnson |
| "A mob is the scum that rises upmost when the nation boils." »John Dryden |
| "Individuals may form communities, but it is institutions alone that can create a nation." »Benjamin Disraeli |
| "Bias against the Negro is the worst disease from which the society of our nation suffers." »Albert Einstein |
| "Govern a great nation as you would cook a small fish. Do not overdo it." »Lao Tzu |
| "Not until we dare to regard ourselves as a nation, not until we respect ourselves, can we gain the esteem of others, or rather only then will it come of its own accord." »Albert Einstein |
| "Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freeness of speech." »Benjamin Franklin |
| BTW, Why won't you become an editor? |
