Nation Building Quotes

• If a country is to be corruption free and become a nation of beautiful minds, I strongly feel there are three key societal members who can make a difference. They are the father, the mother and the teacher.

  Abdul Kalam

  Inspirational, Family, Beautiful

  "Security and Diplomacy: Essential Documents". Book by Arvind Gupta, Mukul Chaturvedi, Akshay Joshi (p. 144), 2004.

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• We understand it still that there is no easy road to freedom. We know it well that none of us acting alone can achieve success. We must therefore act together as a united people, for national reconciliation, for nation building, for the birth of a new world. Let there be justice for all. Let there be peace for all. Let there be work, bread, water and salt for all. Never, never and never again shall it be that this beautiful land will again experience the oppression of one by another and suffer the indignity of being the skunk of the world. Let freedom reign.

  Nelson Mandela

  Beautiful, Land, Justice For All

  Presidential Inaugural Speech, delivered 10 May 1994, Pretoria, South Africa

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• We want to make nation-building a people's movement.

  Narendra Modi

  People, Movement, Want

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• The first and most important component in nation building is LAW. Law is the source of national Cohesion.

  Myles Munroe

  Law, Important, Firsts

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• The message of reconciliation, of nation-building, of granting amnesty, indemnity, has struck a powerful, favorable chord. And people can understand that we're here not for purposes of retribution but to forget the past and to build our country.

  Nelson Mandela

  Country, Powerful, Past

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• Infrastructure sector is all about building assets for the country. It is part of nation building.

  Gautam Adani

  Country, Building, Assets

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• What makes a nation in the beginning is a good piece of geography.

  Robert Frost

  Travel, Home, Pieces

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• Nation-building is never a 'done deal' confined to history already established.

  Aberjhani

  Patriotic, Justice, Humanity

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• We're not into nation-building. We're into justice.

  George W. Bush

  Justice, Building, Nations

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• Let the professionals like doctors & engineers teach in schools once a week. Let's make teaching a national movement necessary for Nation building.

  Narendra Modi

  Motivation, Teaching, School

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• WOMEN must be at the forefront of nation-building to bring the South African citizenry together and, therefore, develop a whole new ethos of human co-existence

  Steven Biko

  Ethos, Together, Building

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• I think that before you take on nation building in your mind's eye as to how it should be, you'd better have a clear understanding if this is doable and will work.

  Anthony Zinni

  Eye, Thinking, Understanding

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• We are all equal children before our mother; and India asks each one of us, in whatsoever role we play in the complex drama of nation-building, to do our duty with integrity, commitment and unflinching loyalty to the values enshrined in our Constitution.

  Pranab Mukherjee

  Loyalty, Mother, Children

  "I will be judged by the critical lens of history: Pranab Mukherjee". www.indiablooms.com. July 24, 2017.

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• If we don't stop extending our troops all around the world in nation-building missions, we're going to have a serious problem coming down the road.

  George W. Bush

  Peace, War, World

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• We are not engaged in domestic politics, in church building or in social uplift work, but we are engaged in nation building.

  Marcus Garvey

  Uplifting, Justice, Diversity

  1922 Speech to the Principles of the Universal Negro Improvement Association, NewYork, 25 Nov.

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• India is more than a sum of its contradictions, any truism about India can be contradicted with another truism. There is no fixed stereotype. But even thinking about India makes clear the immensity of the nation-building challenge.

  Shashi Tharoor

  Thinking, Challenges, India

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• As Commander in Chief, I will maintain the strongest military in the world, keep faith with our troops and go after those who would do us harm. But after a decade of war, I think we all recognize we've got to do some nation building here at home, rebuilding our roads, our bridges and especially caring for our Veterans who sacrificed so much for our freedom.

  Barack Obama

  Military, War, Home

  Source: genius.com

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• We must abandon the failed policy of nation-building and regime change that Hillary Clinton pushed in Iraq, in Libya, in Egypt and in Syria. Instead, we must work with all of our allies who share our goal of destroying ISIS and stamping out Islamic terrorism and doing it now, doing it quickly.

  Donald Trump

  Islamic, Egypt, Isis

  "Donald Trump Acceptance Speech Full Transcript" by Rajiv Poddar, scribie.com. July 23, 2016.

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• Nation building is our central task, both in Afghanistan and in Iraq. And states, nations can't just be built with military power. Despite all difficulties, it's very inspiring to see how the Kurds, the Arab Sunnis and the Shiites are coming together here, how they're jointly defining the basis on which their state is to be built, the political course this state will pursue and who is to receive which cabinet positions.

  Zalmay Khalilzad

  Military, Iraq, Political

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I don't think we should be engaged in nation-building. It's not our job to turn foreign nations into democratic utopias, to try to turn Iraq into Switzerland. It is the military's job to hunt down and kill our enemies, to kill ISIS before they murder American citizens and they wage jihad.

  Ted Cruz

  Jobs, Military, Thinking

  "Ted Cruz on opposition to trade bill, ObamaCare alternative". "Special Report" with Bret Baier, www.foxnews.com. June 24, 2015.

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• I saw the president make the tough calls in the Situation Room - and today, our troops in Iraq have finally come home so America can do some nation building here at home. That was the change that we believed in. That was the change we fought for. That was the change President Obama delivered.

  Rahm Emanuel

  Home, Iraq, America

  Rahm Emanuel's Speech at the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, North Carolina, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 4, 2012.

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• Fiction is a very powerful tool for teaching history. The Philippines was the first Iraq, the first Vietnam, the first Afghanistan, in the sense that it was the United States initial or baptismal experience in nation-building.

  Miguel Syjuco

  Powerful, Teaching, Iraq

  "Author Q&A: Miguel Syjuco revisits the Philippines' troubled past in Ilustrado". Interview with Brian Lynch, www.straight.com. October 28, 2010.

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• When I was growing up in Iraq, there was an unbroken belief in progress and a great sense of optimism. It was a moment of nation building.

  Zaha Hadid

  Growing Up, Iraq, Optimism

  "Zaha Hadid: Pushing the Envelope of Design". Interview with Serena Guen and Alexander Heller, suitcasemag.com. March 22, 2016.

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• Food is about agriculture, about ecology, about man's relationship with nature, about the climate, about nation-building, cultural struggles, friends and enemies, alliances, wars, religion. It is about memory and tradition and, at times, even about sex.

  Mark Kurlansky

  Sex, Memories, War

  Mark Kurlansky (2013). “Choice Cuts”, p.10, Random House

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• And this is an administration - we're not into nation-building, we're focused on justice. And we're going to get justice. It's going to take a while, probably. But I'm a patient man. Nothing will diminish my will and my determination - nothing.

  George W. Bush

  Determination, War, Men

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