Nation quotes
A good head and good heart are always a formidable combination. But when you add to that a literate tongue or pen, then you have something very special.
A great poet is the most precious jewel of a nation.
A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on.
A nation that cannot control its borders is not a nation.
A spirit of national masochism prevails, encouraged by an effete corps of impudent snobs who characterize themselves as intellectuals.
After all, science is essentially international, and it is only through lack of the historical sense that national qualities have been attributed to it.
All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.
An idea is salvation by imagination
Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.
As the family goes, so goes the nation and so goes the whole world in which we live.
Authority, without any condition and reservation, belongs to the nation.
By providing students in our Nation with such an education, we help save our children from the clutches of poverty, crime, drugs, and hopelessness, and we help safeguard our Nation's prosperity for generations yet unborn.
Can a nation be free if it oppresses other nations? It cannot.
Demoralize the enemy from within by surprise, terror, sabotage, assassination. This is the war of the future.
Do not seek the because - in love there is no because, no reason, no explanation, no solutions.
Domination delegates the physical violence on which it rests to the dominated.
Every nation has the right to demand proper treatment and no country should violate the territory of any other country.
Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination.
I can never stand still. I must explore and experiment. I am never satisfied with my work. I resent the limitations of my own imagination.
I have left orders to be awakened at any time during national emergency, even if I'm in a cabinet meeting.
I think nature's imagination Is so much greater than man's, she's never going to let us relax.
If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.
If we ever forget that we're one nation under God, then we will be one nation gone under.
Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.
Imagination does not become great until human beings, given the courage and the strength, use it to create.
Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractions.
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
Imagination is the source of every form of human achievement. And it's the one thing that I believe we are systematically jeopardizing in the way we educate our children and ourselves.
Imagination is the true magic carpet.
Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were, but without it we go nowhere.
In the same vein as these events, National Minority Health Month also serves as a reminder of how much work needs to be done to eliminate health and healthcare inequities.
Insanity in individuals is rare - but in groups, parties, nations, and epochs, it is the rule.
It is impossible to rightly govern a nation without God and the Bible.
Let the guarantee of free speech be in every man's determination to use it, and we shall have no need of paper declarations.
Life can be wonderful if you're not afraid of it. All it takes is courage, imagination ... and a little dough
Life is a journey, not a destination.
Life's a journey, not a destination.
Live your life as an Exclamation rather than an Explanation
Moral indignation - jealousy with a halo.
More than 26,000 lives may be lost to the effects of drug abuse this year. This tragic impact is felt in communities across this great nation. Sadly many of these deaths occur among our young people.
Our true nationality is mankind.
Patriotism is usually stronger than class hatred, and always stronger than internationalism.
Reality leaves a lot to the imagination.
Science may set limits to knowledge, but should not set limits to imagination.
Speaking generally, punishment hardens and numbs, it produces concentration, it sharpens the consciousness of alienation, it strengthens the power of resistance.
The destination of the seeker… depends on the road he takes.
The evils which sapped the nation's strength had all been wrought in the name of religion.
The fascination of shooting as a sport depends almost wholly on whether you are at the right or wrong end of the gun.
The imagination is not a state: it is the human existence itself.
The lunatic, the lover, and the poet are of imagination all compact
The man with no imagination has no wings.
The nation which forgets its defenders will be itself forgotten.
The purpose of government is to enable the people of a nation to live in safety and happiness. Government exists for the interests of the governed, not for the governors.
The right of a nation to kill a tyrant in case of necessity can no more be doubted than to hang a robber, or kill a flea.
The strength of a nation derives from the integrity of the home.
The upward course of a nation's history is due in the long run to the soundness of heart of its average men and women.
The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.
The whole history of the world is summed up in the fact that, when nations are strong, they are not always just, and when they wish to be just, they are no longer strong.
There is no instance of a nation benefiting from prolonged warfare
To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.
Today, more than ever before, life must be characterized by a sense of Universal responsibility, not only nation to nation and human to human, but also human to other forms of life.
Unless a nation's life faces peril, war is murder.
Vision without execution is just hallucination.
We have to heal our wounded world. The chaos, despair, and senseless destruction we see today are a result of the alienation that people feel from each other and their environment.
You cannot change your destination overnight, but you can change your direction overnight