Best firsts & nations Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Moral decay first hampers and then strangles honest government, regular commerce, and even the ability to take genuine pleasure in the goods of this world. Compulsion is applied from above as self-discipline relaxes below, and the last liberties expire under the weight of a unitary state.... Since religion has lost its empire over the souls of men, the most prominent boundary that divided good from evil is overthrown; kings and nations are guided by chance and none can say where are the natural limits of despotism and the bound of license.”

“Imagine filling a college with the first 1,000 students to get perfect SATs. Whatever the racial composition of that class would be, the notion seems absurd because we know that college in America is supposed to be about creating citizens and leaders in a diverse nation.”

Knows Firsts Seems Would Be America Nations Perfect Leader Class Imagine Students College Citizens Creating Notion Absurd Supposed To Be Sat Diverse Composition Filling

Author:Eric Liu

“On the Native American front, we have turned a new page in the 400-year history of the interface between the American settlers of this country and the nation's first Americans. That's included a new relationship where the sovereignty of tribes is in fact recognized.”

Years Firsts Country Facts Nations Fronts Pages Native Native American Tribes Sovereignty Interfaces Settlers New Relationship

Author:Ken Salazar

“The spirit of Ubuntu, that once led Haiti to emerge as the first independent black nation in 1804, helped Venezuela, Colombia and Ecuador attain liberty, and inspired our forefathers to shed their blood for the United States' independence, cannot die. Today, this spirit of solidarity must and will empower all of us to rebuild Haiti.”

“So that’s what we want is a secure and sovereign nation and, you know, I don’t know that all of you are Latino. Some of you look a little more Asian to me. I don’t know that. What we know, what we know about ourselves is that we are a melting pot in this country. My grandchildren are evidence of that. I’m evidence of that. I’ve been called the first Asian legislator in our Nevada State Assembly.”

“The Declaration of Independence was a denial, and the first denial of a nation, of the infamous dogma that God confers the right upon one man to govern others.”

Men Firsts Nations Independence Denial One Man Dogma Declaration Declaration Of Independence Infamous

Book:The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll

Source: The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll

“Many communities throughout the nation still do not have the communications infrastructure in place for first responders to communicate with one another during an emergency.”

Firsts Stills Nations Community Communication Communicate Emergencies Infrastructure

Author:Susan Collins

“We are the first nation in the history of the world to go to the poorhouse in an automobile.”

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Author:Will Rogers

“We must strengthen the United Nations as a first step toward a World Government, patterned after our Own Government with a legislature, executive and judiciary, and police to enforce its international laws and keep the peace.”

World Firsts Government Nations United Steps Police Historical Executives First Steps United Nations Legislature Judiciary Conspiracy Theory World Government One World Government

Author:Walter Cronkite

“Conservation of our resources is the fundamental question before this nation, and that our first and greatest task is to set our house in order and begin to live within our means.”

Firsts Mean Order House Nations Resources Tasks Fundamentals Conservative Conservation

Book:Presidential addresses and state papers

Source: Presidential addresses and state papers

“In a nation of millions and a world of billions, the individual is still the first and basic agent of change.”

World Firsts Stills Individual Nations Millions Billions Agents

Book:Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1966

Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1966

“Way back last summer I asked some of the most outstanding educational minds in this Nation to tackle this problem. I gave them a single instruction: find out how we can best invest each education dollar so that it will do the most good. Your support and the support of every leading education group proves that they did their job better than I had hoped, because for the first time we have succeeded in finding goals which unite us rather than divide us.”

Way Mind Firsts Problem Jobs Lasts Nations Goal Education Support Groups Prove Findings Summer First Time Dollars Educational Divides Instruction Outstanding Last Summer

Author:Lyndon B. Johnson

“We decided that our first job was to help the schools serving the children from the very lowest income groups. Those families constitute the number one burden, the number one burden in this Nation on the school systems.”

Firsts Children Helping School Jobs Nations Numbers Education Groups Decided Burden Income Serving Lowest School System

Book:Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1965

Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1965

“First, we could have defied both of them and could have gone to war against both of these nations for this violation of international law and interference with our neutral rights.”

Firsts War Law Nations Gone Rights International Violation Interference International Law

Book:Fighting Liberal: The Autobiography of George W. Norris

Source: Fighting Liberal: The Autobiography of George W. Norris

“A man must first care for his own household before he can be of use to the state. But no matter how well he cares for his household, he is not a good citizen unless he also takes thought of the state. In the same way, a great nation must think of its own internal affairs; and yet it cannot substantiate its claim to be a great nation unless it also thinks of its position in the world at large.”

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Author:Theodore Roosevelt

“When the Jewish people, after nearly 2,000 years of exile, under relentless persecution, became a nation again on 14 May 1948 the 'fig tree' put forth its first leaves. Jesus said that this would indicate that He was 'at the door,' ready to return.”

People Years Firsts May Said Jesus Nations Doors Tree Ready Return Persecution Exile Relentless Figs

Book:The Late Great Planet Earth

Source: The Late Great Planet Earth

“None of us lie or guard our secrets when we sing, and India is a nation of singers whose first love is the kind of song we turn to when crying just isn't enough.”

Firsts Kind Enough Lying Song Turns Nations Love Is Secret Cry India Singers First Love

Book:Shantaram: A Novel

Source: Shantaram: A Novel

“First, Poland has been again overrun by two of the great powers which held her in bondage for 150 years but were unable to quench the spirit of the Polish nation. The heroic defense of Warsaw shows that the soul of Poland is indestructible, and that she will rise again like a rock which may for a spell be submerged by a tidal wave but which remains a rock.”

Source: The Churchill War Papers: At the Admiralty, September 1939-May 1940

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