W Quotes
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“We are a nation of immigrants. We are the children and grandchildren and great-grandchildren of the ones who wanted a better life, the driven ones, the ones who woke up at night hearing that voice telling them that life in that place called America could be better.”
“We are a nation of laws and liberties, not of a knock in the night. So it is time to end the era of John Ashcroft. That starts with replacing the Patriot Act with a new law that protects our people and our liberties at the same time.”
“We are a nation of laws, and we will always act within the bounds of the law.”
“We are a nation of laws, not a nation that ignores laws if it benefits the Democrat Party.”
“We are a nation of laws.”
“We are a nation of laws. And nobody can ignore our Constitution. No one's above the law. And that includes the president of the United States.”
“We are a nation of many nationalities, many races, many religions-bound together by a single unity, the unity of freedom and equality. Whoever seeks to set one nationality against another, seeks to degrade all nationalities.”
“We are a nation of physical animals who have forgotten how much we enjoy being that. We are cushioned by this kind of make-believe, unreal world and have no idea what we can survive because we are never challenged or tested.”
“We are a nation of shareholders," he had said more than once to Seema, trying to articulate his brand of no-nonsense but compassionate capitalism.... Several times during his Greyhound trip, Barry had paused to consider that, although he loved his fellow passengers deeply, he could not trust them at the voting booth because they were not shareholders. They did not understand the thrill and the pain and the obligation of owning a part of their country.”
Source: Lake Success
“We are a nation of sheep, and someone else owns the grass.”
“We are a nation of shop keepers.”
Source: The Worst Journey in the World: Antarctica, 1910-1913
“We are a nation that has a government - not the other way around. And this makes us special among the nations of the earth. Our government has no power except that granted to it by the people It is time to check and reverse the growth of government which shows signs of having grown beyond the consent of the governed.”
“We are a nation that has a government-not the other way around. And that makes us special among the nations of the earth.”
Source: The Last Best Hope: The Greatest Speeches of Ronald Reagan
“We are a nation that has always gone in for the loud laugh, the wow, the yak, the belly laugh, and the dozen other labels for the roll- em-in-the-aisles gagerissimo. This is the kind of laugh that delights actors, directors, and producers, but dismays writers of comedy because it is the laugh that often dies in the lobby. The appreciative smile, the chuckle, the soundless mirth, so important to the success of comedy, cannot be understood unless one sits among the audience and feels the warmth created by the quality of laughter that the audience takes home with it.”
Source: Collecting Himself: James Thurber on Writing and Writers, Humor and Himself
“We are a nation that is unenlightened because of religion. I do believe that. I think that religion stops people from thinking. I think it justifies crazies.”
“We are a nation that loves the peace. We will never stop growing and developing but we know how to protect ourselves using force.”
“We are a nation that seeks out solutions and refuses to ignore challenges.”
“We are a nation that shouts at a microwave oven to hurry up.”
“We are a nation that worships speed and power. And for good reason. Without power we would still be part of England and everybody would be out of work... Bicycles are too slow and impuissant for a nation like ours. They belong in Czechoslovakia.”
Source: Republican Party Reptile: The Confessions, Adventures, Essays and (Other) Outrages of . . .
“We are a new creation by God’s grace.”
Source: Think Great: Be Great!
“We are a new nation conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. That's what makes us Americans. When we sign onto that belief, we sign onto the core American identity, and that's very deep in us.”
“We are a noisy and blessed little family”
Source: These Is My Words: The Diary of Sarah Agnes Prine, 1881-1901
“We are a one party country. Half of them call themselves Democrats and the other half call themselves Republicans. All the good ideas come from the Libertarians.”
“We are a pair of dice joined together in the game of fate,
We never get along although we've rolled together for hundreds of years.
Millions of people share this tiny light,
The world belongs to you,
The world belongs to me,
The world belongs to nobody.”
“We are a part of everything that is beneath us, above us, and around us. Our past is our present, our present is our future, and our future is seven generations past and present.”
Source: All Our Relations: Native Struggles for Land and Life
“We are a part of nature. Our 'Self' has a connection with cosmic energy. Without understanding the root of our 'Self,' indulging the 'Self in understanding the physical world with a materialistic approach considering the universe merely a machine will confuse the 'Self.' This pattern of thoughts will only create the illusion.”
“We are a part of nature yet we have been given the best job—Gardeners—though we have forgotten to teach the new generations how precious this is. Taking care of the Earth is important because it gives us a better, healthier and longer life here.”
Source: The Last Leaf Of Autumn: Barefoot and falling, infinity is a number that has none to end
“We are a part of the earth and it is part of us.”
“We are a party of innovation. We do not reject our traditions, but we are willing to adapt to changing circumstances, when change we must. We are willing to suffer the discomfort of change in order to achieve a better future.”
“We are a people as all other peoples; we do not have any intentions to be better than the rest We do not have to account to anybody, we are not to sit for anybody's examination and nobody is old enough to call on us to answer. We came before them and will leave after them. We are what we are, we are good for ourselves, we will not change, nor do we want to.”
“We are a people belonging to our God, a holy nation.”
“We are a people captivated by the power and romance of metaphor, forever seeking the invisible through the image of the visible.”
“We are a people in a quandary about the present. We are a people in search of our future. We are a people in search of a national community.”
“We are a people in more need of a little character than we are in need of an abundance of knowledge.”
“We are a people much more concerned with ruling than loving. This is a mistake that positions us in places where we are no longer close enough to another person or thing to perceive its pain or need. To be human in an aching world is to know our dignity and become people who safeguard the dignity of everything around us. To protect everything may seem like too great a call. But we will not survive without it. Everything should be called by its name.
So let justice roll down and twist and juke like a movement.
Let it march into your bones, into seas of charred cane. Wash the earth in justice and watch what rises to the surface. Curses can't breathe underwater.”
Source: This Here Flesh: Spirituality, Liberation, and the Stories That Make Us
“We are a people of different faiths, but we are one. Which faith conquers the other is not the question; rather, the question is whether Christianity stands or falls.... We tolerate no one in our ranks who attacks the ideas of Christianity... in fact our movement is Christian. We are filled with a desire for Catholics and Protestants to discover one another in the deep distress of our own people.”
“We are a people of faith. We have been so secure in that faith that we have enshrined in our Constitution protection for people who profess no faith. And good for us for doing so. That is what the First Amendment is all about.”
Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States, William J. Clinton, 1993, Bk. 2, August 1 to December 31, 1993
“We are a people of improbable hope.”
“We are a people of many races, many faiths, creeds, and religions. I do not think that the men who made the Constitution forbade the establishment of a State church because they were opposed to religion. They knew that the introduction of religious differences into American life would undermine the democratic foundations of this country. What holds for adults holds even more for children, sensitive and conscious of differences. I certainly hope that the Board of Education will think very, very seriously before it introduces this division and antagonism in our public schools.”
“We are a people that have always celebrated other people's success so long as we always had the opportunity to meet that success ourselves. That is the American nature. That is the American character. That is one of the things that makes us different from the rest of the world. And I'm afraid we could lose that or are on the verge of losing that.”
“We are a people that let the small things just go by because it's a little uncomfortable and nobody wants to ruffle a feather. If you're quiet and you're watching it, you're just as much at fault as the person there. You're watching a victim be berated and you're standing by, knowing that feeling in your gut that it's wrong. Now you have a tool in order to change that.”
“We are a people trying not only to solve the problems of the present: unemployment, inflation... but we are attempting on a larger scale to fulfill the promise of America.”
“We are a people united by our love for freedom, even when we differ in our personal beliefs. In America, we are free to profess any faith we choose, or no faith at all.”
“We are a people who do not want to keep much of the past in our heads. It is considered unhealthy in America to remember mistakes, neurotic to think about them, psychotic to dwell on them.”
Source: Scoundrel time
“We are a people whom Allah gave might and glory to through Islam, so we will never seek glory through anything else.”
“We are a people with no army, no navy, no air force, no arms. It's people, thousands of people, who are feeling, sensing the sense of urgency, fearing for the president of their life - the life of their president, trying to protect their democratic choice, because Arafat is the elected leader of the Palestinian people.”
“We are a people. A people do not throw their geniuses away. If they do, it is our duty as witnesses for the future to collect them again for the sake of our children. If necessary, bone by bone.”
“We are a pivotal part of the European Union. Any destabilization of Greece would totally rock the boat.”
“We are a pluralist civilisation because we allow mosques to be built in our countries, and we are not going to stop simply because Christian missionaries are thrown into prison in Kabul. If we did so, we too would become Taliban.”
“We are a product of genes and the influence of life.”