nation quotes

• The first panacea for a mismanaged nation is inflation of the currency; the second is war. Both bring a temporary prosperity; both bring a permanent ruin. But both are the refuge of political and economic opportunists. (Ernest Hemingway) [nation/war]
• Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education. The human mind is our fundamental resource. (John F. Kennedy) [civilization & progress/nation/civilization & progress/education]
• The Nation that destroys its soil destroys itself. (Franklin Roosevelt) [nation]
• It is well enough that people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning. (Henry Ford) [people/nation/system/revolution]
• The genius, wit, and the spirit of a nation are discovered by their proverbs. (Francis Bacon) [genius/spirit/nation/proverbs]
• It is sometimes necessary to lie damnably in the interests of the nation. (Hilaire Belloc) [nation]
• The use of force alone is but temporary. It may subdue for a moment; but it does not remove the necessity of subduing again: and a nation is not governed, which is perpetually to be conquered. (Edmund Burke) [moment/nation]
• A nation is not conquered which is perpetually to be conquered. (Edmund Burke) [nation]
• By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation. (Edmund Burke) [nation]
• Parliament is not a congress of ambassadors from different and hostile interests; which interests each must maintain, as an agent and advocate, against other agents and advocates; but parliament is a deliberative assembly of one nation, with one interest, that of the whole; where, not local purposes, not local prejudices ought to guide, but the general good, resulting from the general reason of the whole. You choose a member indeed; but when you have chosen him, he is not a member of Bristol, but he is a member of parliament. (Edmund Burke) [hostile/nation/interest]
• Reform is not pleasant, but grievous; no person can reform themselves without suffering and hard work, how much less a nation. (Thomas Carlyle) [suffering/nation]
• To reform a world, to reform a nation, no wise man will undertake; and all but foolish men know, that the only solid, though a far slower reformation, is what each begins and perfects on himself. (Thomas Carlyle) [nation/willpower/men]
• We Americans have the chance to become someday a nation in which all radical stocks and classes can exist in their own selfhoods, but meet on a basis of respect and equality and live together, socially, economically, and politically. We can become a dynamic equilibrium, a harmony of many different elements, in which the whole will be greater than all its parts and greater than any society the world has seen before. It can still happen. (Shirley Chisholm) [chance/nation/basis/respect]
• I have never accepted what many people have kindly said-namely that I inspired the nation. Their will was resolute and remorseless, and as it proved, unconquerable. It fell to me to express it. (Winston Churchill) [people/nation/willpower]
• The nation will find it very hard to look up to the leaders who are keeping their ears to the ground. (Winston Churchill) [nation/willpower/find/look]
• The United States is not a nation to which peace is a necessity. (Grover Cleveland) [nation/]
• Raise a million filters and the rain will not be clean, until the longing for it be refined in deep confession. And still we hear, If only this nation had a soul, or, Let us change the way we trade, or, Let us be proud of our region. (Leonard Cohen) [willpower/nation/change/trade]
• The strength of a nation derives from the integrity of the home. ( Confucius) [nation/integrity/housing]
• To put the world in order, we must first put the nation in order; to put the nation in order, we must put the family in order; to put the family in order, we must cultivate our personal life; and to cultivate our personal life, we must first set our hearts right. ( Confucius) [order/nation/order/nation]
• The Youth of a Nation are the trustees of posterity. (Benjamin Disraeli) [youth/nation/posterity]
• In a healthy nation there is a kind of dramatic balance between the will of the people and the government, which prevents its degeneration into tyranny. (Albert Einstein) [nation/balance/willpower/people]
• There seem to be but three ways for a nation to acquire wealth. The first is by war, as the Romans did, in plundering their conquered neighbors. This is robbery. The second by commerce, which is generally cheating. The third by agriculture, the only honest way, wherein man receives a real increase of the seed thrown into the ground, in a kind of continual miracle, wrought by the hand of God in his favor, as a reward for his innocent life and his virtuous industry. (Benjamin Franklin) [nation/wealth/war/cheating]
• No nation was ever ruined by trade. (Benjamin Franklin) [nation/trade]
• The greatness of a nation can be judged by the way its animals are treated. (Mahatma Gandhi) [greatness/nation/animals]
• The destiny of any nation at any given time depends on the opinion of its young people, those under twenty-five. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe) [nation/time/opinion/people]
• The decline in literature indicates a decline in the nation. The two keep pace in their downward tendency. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe) [literature/nation]
• Movies are one of the bad habits that corrupted our century. Of their many sins, I offer as the worst their effect on the intellectual side of the nation. It is chiefly from that viewpoint I write of them -- as an eruption of trash that has lamed the American mind and retarded Americans from becoming a cultured people. (Ben Hecht) [bad/nation/viewpoint/mind]
• The first panacea for a mismanaged nation is inflation of the currency; the second is war. Both bring a temporary prosperity; both bring a permanent ruin. But both are the refuge of political and economic opportunists. (Ernest Hemingway) [nation/war]
• It is the awareness of unfulfilled desires which gives a nation the feeling that it has a mission and a destiny. (Eric Hoffer) [awareness/desires/nation/feeling]
• The history of any nation follows an undulatory course. In the trough of the wave we find more or less complete anarchy; but the crest is not more or less complete Utopia, but only, at best, a tolerably humane, partially free and fairly just society that invariably carries within itself the seeds of its own decadence. (Aldous Leonard Huxley) [nation/wave/find/more]
• We may consider each generation as a distinct nation, with a right, by the will of its majority, to bind themselves, but none to bind the succeeding generation, more than the inhabitants of another country. (Thomas Jefferson) [generation/nation/right/willpower]

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