T Quotes
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“The nation was founded and "dedicated," to use Lincoln's language in the "Gettysburg Address," to equality as a "self-evident truth." But this very principle of equality, as Lincoln also noted, was a "proposition." To make it a reality remained "the unfinished work" of Americans.”
“The nation was not founded by habitual groupthinkers. But it stands a fair chance of being destroyed by them.”
Source: Going to Extremes: Notes from a Divided Nation
“The nation was tearing itself apart over pro-life and pro-choice but completely ignored the problems of the kids who were already here. I mean, no schools, no work, no clue if they'd even have a future. They just went nuts!”
Source: UnWholly
“The nation wept tears of remorse for their leader: the tear-gas accomplished what was expected.”
“The nation which can only be saved by one man and wants to be saved that way deserves a whipping!”
“The nation which forgets its defenders will be itself forgotten.”
Source: The Rise of Saint Calvin: Merry Sidelights on the Career of Mr. Coolidge
“The nation which indulges toward another a habitual hatred or a habitual fondness is in some degree a slave. It is a slave to it animosity or two its affection, either of which is sufficient to lead it astray from its duty and it's interest.”
“The nation which indulges towards another an habitual hatred, or an habitual fondness, is in some degree a slave. It is a slave to its animosity or to its affection, either of which is sufficient to lead it astray from its duty and its interest.”
“The nation which once held the creed that greatness is achieved by production, is now told that it is achieved by squalor.”
Source: Atlas Shrugged
“The nation which reposes on the pillow of political confidence, will sooner or later end its political existence in a deadly lethargy.”
Source: 1829-1836
“The nation will be shaped for decades by decisions that are made by President Bush and the Senate about the future of the Supreme Court.”
“The nation will continue to be a central pole of identification, even if more and more nations come to share common economic and political forms of organization.”
Source: The End of History and the Last Man
“The nation will find it very hard to look up to the leaders who are keeping their ears to the ground.”
Source: The Wicked Wit of Winston Churchill
“The nation's first experiment with the income tax was tried at this time; another violation of the Constitution.”
“The nation's government has just handed me the bill that grants us our civil rights. I am receiving it before you, certain that I am accepting this on behalf of all Argentinean women, and I can feel my hands tremble with joy as they grasp the laurel proclaiming victory.”
“The nation's honor is dearer than the nation's comfort.”
Source: The papers of Woodrow Wilson
“The nation's largest savings and loan, Washington Mutual, has become the biggest bank failure in history. See, the problem with the savings and loans? Not enough savings, too many stupid loans, okay In fact, they changed their name from WaMu to 'screw you.'”
“The nation's morals are like its teeth: the more decayed they are the more it hurts to touch them.”
Source: The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Lectures, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more
“The nation's non-co-operation is an invitation to the Government to co-operate with it on its own terms, as is every nation's right and every good government's duty.”
Source: The Moral and Political Writings of Mahatma Gandhi: Non-Violent Resistance and Social Transformation
“The nation's obligation to her defenders is as old as that defense itself.”
“The nation, as you know, is at a critical point. At a time like this we can't risk partisan bickering and political posturing. Our leaders have to reach across the aisle to do the people's work.”
“The nation, like the church, has its visible symbols and insignia, its parchments engrossed with the revealed word, its dogmas, hymns, liturgy, holy day celebrations, its early Fathers, prophets and martyrs, its priesthood and its lay sodality, its myths of sacred genesis and apocalyptic crises, its world-saving mission and its missionaries.”
Source: The Anti-communist Impulse
“The nation-state became powerful in the wake of the French Revolution, whereas the nation-state has become powerless in light of globalization.”
“The nation-state is becoming less and less competent to perform its international political tasks... These are some of the reasons pressing us to lead vigorously toward the true building of a new world order.”
“The National Academies of Sciences, Medicine and Engineering, tasked by Congress with investigating how to reduce child poverty in the United States, issued a landmark report in 2019 that concluded that each year child poverty costs Americans about $1 trillion in crime, education and welfare costs and related expenses.”
Source: Tightrope: Americans Reaching for Hope
“The National Academy of Sciences would be unable to give a unanimous decision if asked whether the sun would rise tomorrow.”
“The national anthem blows. Are you kidding me? Do any of you have it on your iPod?”
“The national anthem of hell is, "I Did It My Way."”
“The National Association of Theater Concessionaires reported that in 1986, 60% of all candy sold in movie theaters was sold to Roger Ebert.”
“The National Bank at profit sells road maps for the soul.”
“The National Book Festival is a great way for families and friends to share the creative works of some of America's most-loved authors, .. Readers of all ages can listen to favorite writers speaking about their books, have books autographed, meet many storybook characters and enjoy a day on the National Mall.”
“The national budget is not a safe-deposit box. It is a spray can.”
“The national budget must be balanced. The public debt must be reduced; the arrogance of the authorities must be moderated and controlled. Payments to foreign governments must be reduced. If the nation doesn't want to go bankrupt, people must again learn to work, instead of living on public assistance.”
“The National Catholic Register's coverage of the Church universal, and the Church in our own country, is splendid.”
“The national characteristics... the restless metaphysical curiosity, the tenderness of good living and the passionate individualism. This is the invisible constant in a place with which the ordinary tourist can get in touch just by sitting quite quietly over a glass of wine in a Paris bistro.”
“The national conversation around white entitlement, around institutionalized racism, the Black Lives Matter movement, I think, came about in large part because of the widening and broadening of our understanding of inequality. That conversation was begun by Occupy.”
“The national debate on health care once centered on improving access to quality care, yet the effect of Obamacare will be the exact opposite, resulting in the shameful degradation of care for the neediest individuals.”
“The national debate on health-care reform wildly misses the mark, with Democrats and Republicans alike arguing about who's going to pay rather than about what would actually make people healthy.”
“The national debate on Social Security has been cheapened by demagoguery on all sides.”
“The national debt has given rise to joint stock companies, to dealings in negotiable effects of all kinds, and to agiotage , in a word to stock-exchange gambling and the modern bankocracy .”
Source: Capital: A Critique of Political Economy - The Process of Capitalist Production
“The National Debt is a very Good Thing and it would be dangerous to pay it off for fear of Political Economy.”
“The national debt is totally unlike a family budget for about a gazillion reasons, not the least of which being that families cannot raise money by fiat or deflate the size of their debt unilaterally and that family members die instead of existing infinitely.”
“The national debt will have increased by approximately 50% in just eight years! We will have created a new unfunded entitlement - disability and health care benefits for the huge number of disabled veterans returning from the Iraq war.”
“The National defense is one of the cardinal duties of a statesman.”
“The national deficit is not rising.”
“The national Democratic leadership is going so far left, they've left America. Don't let them bury the American dream in their graveyard of gloom and envy.”
“The national dish of Scotland is something called haggis, the specific ingredients of which I won't go into other than to say that if you can visualize boiled, inside-out road kill, you're pretty close.”
“The national distrust of the contemplative temperament arises less from an innate Philistinism than from a suspicion of anything that cannot be counted, stuffed, framed or mounted over the fireplace in the den.”
Source: Money and Class in America: Notes and Observations on the Civil Religion
“The National Education Association is the al-Qaida of education.”
“The National Empowerment Fund we established some time back. And one of the challenges was to build a strong enough asset base for it to operate in a credible manner. And we believe that it can.”