National Treasure Quotes

• Every one of our greatest national treasures, our liberty, enterprise, vitality, wealth, military power, global authority, flow from a surprising source: our ability to give thanks.

  Tony Snow

  Military, Giving, Liberty

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• But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Government, Tyrants, Long

  Thomas Jefferson (2010). “The Works of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence 1771 - 1779, the Summary View, and the Declaration of Independence”, p.202, Cosimo, Inc.

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  Those who have the ability to take action have the responsibility to take action.

  Nicolas Cage

  Responsibility, Action, Ability

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• Do I think I'm a national treasure? I don't see why not? I don't see why I shouldn't be. I'm a good lad, really.

  Robbie Williams

  Thinking, Why Not, Treasure

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• My fellow Wilmington, North Carolina native Meadowlark Lemon is a true national treasure. I watched him play for the Harlem Globetrotters when I was growing up and his skill with the basketball and dedication to the game were an inspiration not only to me, but to kids all around the world.

  Michael Jordan

  Basketball, Growing Up, Inspiration

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• The Sun in London ran a front page declaring my bum a national treasure. I really did laugh at that. Its not like it can actually do anything, except wiggle.

  Kylie Minogue

  Laughing, Treasure, Pages

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• I'm going to steal the Declaration of Independence.

  Nicolas Cage

  Independence, Stealing, Declaration

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• The path towards sustainable energy sources will be long and sometimes difficult. But America cannot resist this transition, we must lead it.

  Barack Obama

  America, Long, Politics

  Second Presidential Inaugural Address, delivered 21 January 2013, Washington, D.C.

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• The path towards sustainable energy sources will be long and sometimes difficult. But America cannot resist this transition, we must lead it. We cannot cede to other nations the technology that will power new jobs and new industries, we must claim its promise. That's how we will maintain our economic vitality and our national treasure-our forests and waterways, our crop lands and snow-capped peaks. That is how we will preserve our planet, commanded to our care by God. That's what will lend meaning to the creed our fathers once declared.

  Barack Obama

  God, Jobs, Father

  Second Presidential Inaugural Address, delivered 21 January 2013, Washington, D.C.

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• Baseball is not a conventional industry. It belongs neither to the players nor management, but to all of us. It is our national pastime, our national symbol, and our national treasure.

  John Thorn

  Baseball, Player, Treasure

  John Thorn (1995). “Baseball: our game”, Penguin Books

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• The symphonic orchestras have sponsors, people who give them endowments, and I think it should be the same way with jazz - because this is a national treasure.

  Lee Morgan

  Thinking, Giving, People

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• [The media] are using a national treasure - that's what the public airwaves are. And they have a responsibility to bring out the full diversity of opinion or lose their licenses.

  Amy Goodman

  Responsibility, Media, Diversity

  Winter Soldier Testimony, 2008.

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• Steve Jobs is a national treasure. He is so visionary, and so bright. I had to fire him, though.

  Arthur Rock

  Jobs, Fire, Visionaries

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• I'll just be the first to say that Ken [Watanabe] should be a national treasure in Japan, because he is an unbelievably talented actor. You couldn't find more of a gentleman. He's sweet, he's kind and he's extremely thoughtful in the work that he does.

  Leonardo DiCaprio

  Sweet, Thoughtful, Japan

  "INCEPTION Press Conference Leonardo DiCaprio, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Ellen Page, Marion Cotillard, Tom Hardy, Cillian Murphy, Ken Watanabe, Christopher Nolan, Hans Zimmer and Emma Thomas" by Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. July 12, 2010.

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• The men and women of the CIA are a national treasure.

  John O. Brennan

  Men, Treasure, Cia

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• I don't feel any pressure at all because I don't care. That's an occupational hazard... but if you're doing anything of any worth, and not doing something that's safe and anodyne and trying to be populist and a national treasure, then you've got to assume that as many people hate what you do - and you - as like what you do and like you.

  Ricky Gervais

  Hate, People, Trying

  "Cemetery Junction - Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• I think Noam Chomsky is a national treasure - make that an international treasure.

  Jello Biafra

  Thinking, Treasure, International

  Interview with John Krewson, www.avclub.com. April 9, 1997.

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• Rachel Maddow is a national treasure. I think that we need honest voices like that and we need journalism like that.

  Mehcad Brooks

  Thinking, Voice, Needs

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• Movies such as this remind us that Owen Wilson is nothing less than a national treasure.

  Roger Moore

  Treasure, Wilson

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• In this very uncertain time for the media, serious investigative reporting - the expensive, time-consuming stuff - is under enormous pressure at newspapers and other commercial news organizations. Non-profits such as the Center for Public Integrity are taking on this vital work and without them the prospects for investigative reporting would be even more dire. The Center has been properly celebrated for its careful, rigorous work, and to my mind it has now ascended to the status of national treasure.

  Alex Jones

  Integrity, Organization, Media

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• The Storied Life of A. J. Fikry is a breezy, big-hearted treat, especially if you've ever wondered about the inner workings of America's national treasures--neighborhood bookstores.

  Jami Attenberg

  America, Bookstores, Treasure

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• Trees are, after all, our largest and oldest living things. They are Australia's natural, national treasures - the true Elders of our vast continent.

  Richard Allen

  Australia, Tree, Treasure

  Richard Allen (2009). “Australia's Remarkable Trees”, p.14, The Miegunyah Press

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• Yes, I hate it when people call me a 'national treasure'. It takes away your bite and makes you feel like a harmless old golden Labrador.

  Sue Townsend

  Hate, People, Golden

  "Sue Townsend: 'I hate it when people call me a national treasure'". Interview with Kate Kellaway, www.theguardian.com. July 31, 2010.

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• Culture Clash is a national treasure.

  Philip Kan Gotanda

  Culture, Treasure, Clash

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• Loeb has been doing wonderfully patient work, exploring the American conscience from the inside. I regard him as something of a national treasure.

  Susan Sontag

  Treasure, Patient, Regard

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