A Quotes
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“A nation that is capable of limitless sacrifice is capable of rising to limitless heights. The purer the sacrifice the quicker the progress.”
Source: The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi
“A nation that is Christian at its heart doesn't need to write it into law.”
Source: The War After Armageddon
“A nation that is divided, need love to be united.”
“A nation that is unfit to fight cannot, from experience, prove the virtue of not fighting.”
Source: Soul Force: Gandhi's Writings on Peace
“A nation that kills its own children has no future.”
“A nation that places its laws over its humanity lacks both humility and humanity.”
“A nation that reads more is a nation that can do more. - Kailin Gow”
“A nation that sends its women to fight its wars is not worth defending.”
“A nation that spends billions to fix international problems will not have much left over for the victims of tornadoes in Oklahoma.”
“A nation that still believes in itself holds fast to its own god.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche (Illustrated): Friedrich Nietzsche
“A nation that still needs to distinguish between stealing an election, and stealing a new pair of shoes, is not completely civilized yet.”
“A nation that turns away from prayer will ultimately find itself in desperate need of it.”
“A nation that will keep people in slavery for 244 years will "thingify" them and make them things. And therefore, they will exploit them and poor people generally economically. And a nation that will exploit economically will have to have foreign investments and everything else, and it will have to use its military might to protect them. All of these problems are tied together. What I'm saying today is that we must go from this convention and say, "America, you must be born again!"”
“A nation that will not enforce its laws has no claim to the respect and allegiance of its people.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)
“A nation thrives not by its walls, but by how wide it opens doors.”
Source: Tierra Carta: Naskar Charter of Earth
“A nation to be great ought to be compressed in its increment by nations more civilized than itself.”
Source: The Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: Poetry, Plays, Literary Essays, Lectures, Autobiography and Letters (Classic Illustrated Edition): The Entire Opus of the English poet, literary critic and philosopher, including The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Kubla Khan, Christabel, Lyrical Ballads, Conversation Poems and Biographia Literaria
“A nation under a well regulated government, should permit none to remain uninstructed. It is monarchical and aristocratical government only that requires ignorance for its support.”
Source: Rights of Man: Being an Answer to Mr. Burke's Attack on the French Revolution
“A nation usually renews its youth on a political sick-bed, and there finds again the spirit which it had gradually lost in seeking and maintaining power.”
Source: Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two
“A nation where private schools produce more leaders than public schools has failed in education.”
Source: The Humanitarian Dictator
“A nation which accepts to live a third-class life is just a third-class nation! If a nation wants to be called honourable nation, it must use the option to refuse any kind of policy which is against human dignity! No refuse, no honour! If you don’t refuse a bad government, you deserve it all the way!”
“A nation which can prefer disgrace to danger is prepared for a master, and deserves one.”
Source: Citizen Hamilton: The Wit and Wisdom of an American Founder
“A nation which does not remember what it was yesterday does not know where it is today.”
“A nation which does not remember what it was yesterday, does not know what it is today, nor what it is trying to do. We are trying to do a futile thing if we do not know where we came from or what we have been about.”
“A nation which expects its biological survival from immigrants won’t survive.”
“A nation which fails to adequately remember salient points of
its own history, is like a person with Alzheimer's. And that can be a
social disease of a most destructive nature.”
Source: The Assassination of Michael Collins: What Happened At Béal na mBláth?
“A nation which has forgotten its past can have no future.”
“A nation which has forgotten the quality of courage which in the past has been brought to public life is not as likely to insist upon or regard that quality in its chosen leaders today - and in fact we have forgotten.”
“A nation which lives a pastoral and innocent life never decorates the shepherd's staff or the plough-handle; but races who live by depredation and slaughter nearly always bestow exquisite ornaments on the quiver, the helmet, and the spear.”
Source: The Two Paths: Being Lectures on Art, and Its Application to Decoration and Manufacture, Delivered in 1858-9
“A nation which makes the final sacrifice for life and freedom does not get beaten.”
“A nation which refuses to learn from foreign culture is nothing but a nation of idiots and lunatics... But to learn from other cultures does not mean we should abandon our own.”
“A nation which thinks that it is belief in God and not good law which makes people honest does not seem to me very advanced.”
“A nation will not be moved by timid methods.”
“A nation will not count the sacrifice it makes, if it supposes it is engaged in a struggle for its fame, its influence and its existence.”
Source: Selected speeches, ed. by T.E. Kebbel
“A nation will not survive morally or economically when so few have so much and so many have so little.”
“A nation will prosper to the degree that it honors it's teachers.”
“A nation will rise no higher than the strength of its homes. If you want to reform a nation you begin with families.”
“A nation with a goofy foreign policy needs a very serious policy of defense.”
Source: Parliament of Whores: A Lone Humorist Attempts to Explain the Entire U.S. Government
“A nation with a strong defence industry will not only be more secure. It will also reap rich economic benefits - it can boost investment, expand manufacturing, support enterprise, raise the technology level and increase economic growth in the country.”
“A nation with a thousand awakened citizens and a corrupt leader, is much more alive than a nation with an awakened leader and a thousand corrupt citizens.”
Source: When Humans Unite: Making A World Without Borders
“A nation with their freezers full are dancing in their seats, while outside another nation is sleeping in the streets.”
“A nation without a leader is bad, even worse is a home without peace.”
“A nation without a religion - that is like a man without breath.”
“A nation without borders is like a house without walls - it collapses. And that is what is going to happen to our wonderful America.”
“A nation without borders is no nation at all.”
“A nation without dregs and malcontents is orderly, peaceful and pleasant, but perhaps without the seed of things to come.”
Source: Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer
“A nation without fear is a nation without borders.”
Source: Aşk Mafia: Armor of The World
“A nation without heroes is nothing.”
“A nation without means of reform is without means of survival.”
“A nation writes its history in the image of its ideal.”
Source: My people: the story of the Jews
“A nation' s strength ultimately consists in what it can do on its own, and not in what it can borrow from others.”
Source: Indira Gandhiʾs Legacy to the Indian Nation: Economic Development and the Public Sector