A Quotes
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“A nation forgetting its own laughter is in a sad state of affairs”
Source: Boulder Blues: A Tale of the Colorado Counterculture
“A nation has a fixed quantity of invention, and it will make itself felt.”
Source: The works of Benjamin Disraeli, earl of Beaconsfield: embracing novels, romances, plays, poems, biography, short stories and great speeches
“A nation has a right to manage its own concerns as it thinks fit.”
Source: The Works of Alexander Hamilton: Cabinet papers. 1789-1794
“A nation has a soul, a spiritual principle. One is in the past, the other in the present. One is the possession of a rich legacy of memories; the other is the desire to live together and to value the common heritage.”
“A nation has character only when it is free.”
“A nation has honor precisely as it has fleas - on this or that body. The statesman who talks of honor - unless he means something else, quite different - is a rogue.”
“A nation has its first obligation to its own workers and its own poor.”
“A nation has the right to defend itself, but when it comes to the broader issue of peace and security, the legitimacy rests only with the Security Council.”
“A nation has to love and protect the lakes, rivers, forests, birds, bears, flowers and seas of the geography they live on! If he does not love them and he destroys them, then that nation must get out of that geography and leave its place to a more nature-sensitive moral nation!”
“A nation ignorant of the equal benefits of liberty and law, must be awed by the flashes of arbitrary power: the cruelty of a despot will assume the character of justice; his profusion, of liberality; his obstinacy, of firmness.”
Source: The Collected Works of Edward Gibbon: Historical Works, Autobiographical Writings and Private Letters, Including The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
“A nation is a body of people who have done great things together in the past and hope to do great things together in the future.”
“A nation is a body of people who have done great things together.”
“A nation is a detour of nature to arrive at five or six great men- yes, and then to get around them.”
“A nation is a society united by a delusion about its ancestry and by common hatred of its neighbours.”
“A nation is a thing that lives and acts like a man and men are the particles of which it is composed.”
“A nation is alive only when it grows, constantly discarding its outdated traditions, habits, rituals and assumptions.”
Source: Generation Corazon: Nationalism is Terrorism
“A nation is all the individuals of same blood, forming by their cohesion a natural related collective being with it s own organs and state which are social classes and the State and the same soul, which is nationality.”
“A nation is as great, and only as great, as her rank and file.”
Source: The New Freedom A Call For the Emancipation of the Generous Energies of a People
“A nation is blessed when it has godly leaders.”
“A nation is born into freedom on the day when such a people, moulded into a nation by a process of cultural evolution and sense of oneness born of common struggle and suffering, announces to the world that it asserts its natural right to liberty and is ready to defend it with blood, life, and honor.”
Source: A Stone for the Edifice: Memoirs of a President
“A nation is born stoic, and dies epicurean”
“A nation is bound not only by the real past, but the stories it tells itself: by what it remembers, and what it forgets.”
“A nation is formed by the willingness of each of us to share in the responsibility for upholding the common good.”
“A nation is great when brothers and sisters of all backgrounds can live together as free citizens.”
“A nation is illiterate and uneducated if a child is labored”
“A nation is not a budget, no matter how much ideologues want it to be so.”
“A nation is not a piece of land, so it must not be seen as such - a nation is a people - a people with various unique ingredients in their way of living - these ingredients do not make them superior or inferior to any other people in the world, rather they simply make them who they are - they simply define their uniqueness - and these unique ingredients from all the peoples of all the countries in the world beautifully construct the radiant, colorful and vivacious fabric of humanity, where all the colors are of equal potential for growth and progress.”
Source: Build Bridges not Walls: In the name of Americana
“A nation is not conquered which is perpetually to be conquered.”
“A nation is not defined by its borders or the boundaries of its land mass Rather, a nation is defined by adverse people who have been unified by a cause and a value system and who are committed to a vision for the type of society they wish to live in and give to the future generations to come.”
“A nation is not going mad when it does extravagant things, so long as it does them in an extravagant spirit. But whenever we see things done wildly, but taken tamely, then the State is growing insane.”
“A nation is not in danger of financial disaster merely because it owes itself money.”
“A nation is not made wealthy by the childish accumulation of shiny metals, but it enriched by the economic prosperity of it's people.”
“A nation is not to be judged by its weaklings called the wicked, as they are only the weeds which lag behind, but by the good, the noble, and the pure, who indicate the national life current flowing clear and vigorous.”
Source: Swami Vivekananda on Himself
“A nation is not worthy to be saved if, in the hour of its fate, it will not gather up all its jewels of manhood and life, and go down into the conflict however bloody and doubtful, resolved on measureless ruin or complete success.”
Source: The works of James Abram Garfield. (2 Volumes) Volume 1
“A nation is nothing more than a large network of communities.”
Source: The Magic of Nature: Meditations & Spells to Find Your Inner Voice
“A nation is safer and progressive when the citizens own or are involved in healthy businesses that can aid them enjoy good livelihood without any fear for tomorrow.”
“A nation is the same people living in the same place.”
Source: The Little Review
“A nation is the sum of its memories, and when those memories are allowed to die, it is less of a nation.”
Source: The Abolition of Britain: From Winston Churchill to Princess Diana
“A nation isthe universality of citizens speaking the same tongue.”
“A nation like China has become one of the biggest production fields for exporting cheap labor, which also re-questions our history and past, re-questions human desire, and the human illusions of the past.”
“A nation lives by its myths and heroes. Many societies have survived defeat and invasion, even political and economic collapse. None has survived the corruption of its picture of itself. High and popular art are not in competition here. Both may help citizens decide what they are and what they admire. In our age, however, high art has given up speaking to the body of its fellow citizens. It devotes itself to technical displays that can appeal only to other technicians.”
Source: The Devil Knows Latin: Why America Needs the Classical Tradition
“A nation lives forever through its concepts, honor, and culture. It is for these reasons that the rulers of nations must judge and act not only on the basis of physical and material interests of the nation but on the basis of the nation's historical honor, of the nation's eternal interests. Thus: not bread at all costs, but honor at all costs.”
“A nation may be in a tumult to-day for a thought which the timid Erasmus placidly penned in his study more than two centuries ago.”
Source: Literature and Life
“A nation may be said to consist of its territory, its people, and its laws. The territory is the only part which is of certain durability.”
Source: Great Speeches
“A nation may lose its liberties in a day and not miss them in a century.”
“A Nation must be built by discipline, good
health and Love”
“A nation must be embraced, rehabilitated and expressed as a tangible sign of human creativity and as an integral element of mankinds heritage.”
“A nation must think before it acts.”
“A nation needs to know how to utilise talent.”
“A nation not of men but of laws, intoned John Adams as he, among other lawyers, launched what has easily become the most demented society ever consciously devised by intelligent men. We are now enslaves by laws. We are governed by lawyers. We create little but litigate much. Our monuments are the ever-expanding prisons, where millions languish for having committed victimless crimes or for simply not playing the game of plausible deniability (aka lying) with a sufficiently good legal team. What began as a sort of Restoration comedy, The Impeachment of a President, on a frivolous, irrelevant matter, is suddenly turning very black indeed, and all our political arrangements are at risk as superstitious Christian fundamentalists and their corporate manipulators seem intent on overthrowing two presidential elections in a Senate trial. This is no longer comedy. This is usurpation.”
Source: The Last Empire: Essays 1992-2000