A Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with A. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“A nation of ants, morose, frigid, and still preserving the same dread of happiness and joy as in the days of John Knox.”
Source: John Bull and His Daughters
“A nation of character is filled with citizens who gradually build lives based on the living awareness that their deeds are judged by eyes of unchanging truth, by a will that is the real measure of what is right, and therefore of what is good.”
“A nation of intellectuals, a nation of thugs
Jesus is hate, a nation of Satan is love!”
“A Nation of Outsiders is smart, insightful, and politically astute. Grace Hale's analysis of the 'romance of the outsider' is necessary reading for anyone who has ever wondered about the meaning of our national obsession with 'authenticity'-as well as for anyone who might be curious about what Jerry Falwell and Holden Caulfield have in common.”
“A nation of sheep will beget a government of wolves.”
“A nation of shopkeepers are very seldom so disinterested.”
“A nation of slaves is always prepared to applaud the clemency of their master who, in the abuse of absolute power, does not proceed to the last extremes of injustice and oppression.”
Source: Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
“A nation of spaghetti eaters cannot restore Roman civilization!”
“A nation of well-informed men who have been taught to know and prize the rights which God has given them cannot be enslaved. It is in the region of ignorance that tyranny begins.” Benjamin Franklin”
“A nation or an individual, will do wisely to direct consumption chiefly to those articles, that are longest time in wearing out, and the most frequently in use.”
Source: A treatise on political economy
“A nation or civilization that continues to produce soft-minded men purchases its own spiritual death on the installment plan.”
“A nation orients itself by its own geniuses, and derives from them its ideas of its own ideals, but the guiding star serves also as a light to other nations. As speech has been created by a few great men, the most extraordinary wisdom lies concealed in it, a wisdom which reveals itself to a few ardent explorers but which is usually overlooked by the stupid professional philologists.”
Source: Sex & Character
“A nation recruits men more easily than it can retrieve its honour.”
“A nation regenerates itself only upon heaps of corpses.”
“A nation reveals itself not only by the men it produces but also by the men it honors, the men it remembers.”
“A nation ringed by walls will only imprison itself.”
“A nation’s laws must be virtuous,
even when its inhabitants are not.
A nation’s rulers must be faithful to God,
even when their subjects are not.”
“A nation's leader must stand at the crest of new horizons.”
Source: The Divine Government: Guidance for the Leader
“A nation’s people must love each other, otherwise there will remain no nation! The world’s nations must love each other otherwise there will remain no world!”
“A nation’s progress cannot be measured solely in economic terms. Growth that excludes dignity, justice, and equity is hollow and unstable. Sustainable development begins when policy places human well-being above political convenience.”
“A nation's worth lies not in the value of its currency, but in the character of its people.”
“A Nation should not be judged by how it treats its highest citizens, but it's lowest ones”
Source: Long Walk To Freedom
“A Nation State or Cyber-Mercenary won’t hack e-voting machines one by one. This takes too long and will have minimal impact. Instead, they’ll take an easier approach like spear phishing the manufacturer with malware and poison the voting machine update pre-election and allow the manufacturer to update each individual machine with a self-deleting payload that will target the tabulation process.”
“A nation that assumes self-proclaimed supremacy is the only inferior nation on earth.”
Source: Generation Corazon: Nationalism is Terrorism
“A nation that can't control its energy sources can't control its future.”
Source: The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream
“A nation that can't remember its dead will soon cease to be worth dying for.”
Source: The Skull Beneath the Skin: A Cordelia Gray Mystery
“A nation that cannot control its borders is not a nation.”
“A nation that cannot preserve itself ought to die, and it will die - die in the grasp of the evils it is too feeble to overthrow”
“A nation that combines the America predilection towards violence, the American stockpile of weapons and the American lack of empathy for the earth's humiliated peoples is a dangerous nation.”
“A Nation that continues to consume more than she produces, that imports more than she exports, is a Nation that will eventually self destruct.”
“A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual doom.”
“A nation that destroys its own people is a nation without hope.”
“A nation that does not honor its heroes will not long endure.”
“A nation that does not read much does not know much. And a nation that does not know much is more likely to make poor choices in the home, the marketplace, the jury box, and the voting booth. And those decisions ultimately affect the entire nation...the literate and illiterate.”
Source: The Read-Aloud Handbook: Sixth Edition
“A nation that does not stand for its children does not stand for anything and will not stand tall in the future.”
“A nation that does not support and encourage its theater is - if not dead - dying; just as a theater that does not capture with laughter and tears the social and historical pulse, the drama of its people, the genuine color of the spiritual and natural landscape, has no right to call itself theater; but only a place for amusement.”
“A nation that does not understand and trivialize time is not ready for growth and development”
Source: No One Is Better Than You
“A nation that encourages its people to spend more and save less promotes economic backwardness, social decay and its own financial doom.”
“A nation that enslaves another forges its own chains.”
“A nation that expects the government to prevent churches from burning, to control the price of bread or gasoline, to secure every job, and to find some villain for every dramatic accident risks an even larger loss of life and liberty.”
“A nation that fails to honor its heroes, soon will have no heroes to honor.”
“A nation that fails to plan intelligently for the development and protection of its precious waters will be condemned to wither because of its shortsightedness. The hard lessons of history are clear, written on the deserted sands and ruins of once proud civilizations.”
Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1968-1969
“A nation that forgets its past can function no better than an individual with amnesia.”
“A nation that forgets its past has no future.”
“A nation that has no music and no fairytales is a tragedy.”
“A nation that has nothing but its amusements will not be amused for long.”
“A nation that hates politics will not long survive as a democracy.”
“A nation that honors God will always be honored by God. I've seen nations that have dishonored God: God has been taken out of schools, the government, the military; and when you take Him out of a nation, how can you expect God to protect this nation?”
“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.”
Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1962
“A nation that is built on war will forever have conflict.”