Nations Quotes - Page 28

• Our status as a land of equal opportunity has made us a rich and powerful nation, but it has also transformed lives. It has given people like me the chance to grow up knowing that no dream was too big and no goal out of reach.

  Marco Rubio

  Dream, Powerful, Growing Up

  Marco Rubio (2015). “American Dreams: Restoring Economic Opportunity for Everyone”, p.56, Penguin

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• There is no Nation however small which had the right to set itself free, that has not rescued itself from the dishonour of obeying the Prince imposed by an enemy in the hour of victory.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Enemy, Victory, Hours

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• Patriotism is a word which represents a noble idea.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Ideas, Noble

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• It strengthens the bonds between nations to have the same civil laws and the same monetary system.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Law, Monetary System, Monetary

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• In a conquered country benevolence is not humanitarianism. It is a general political axiom that a conqueror must not inspire a good opinion of his benevolence until he has demonstrated that he can be severe with malefactors.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Country, Political, Inspire

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• Agriculture is the soul and chief support of empires; industry produces riches and the happiness of the people; exportation represents the superabundance, and good use of both.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Agriculture, People, Support

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• Nothing renders a nation so despicable as religious despotism.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Religious, Despotism, Despicable

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• Equality should be the chief basis of the education of youth.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Youth, Should, Chiefs

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• A nation recruits men more easily than it can retrieve its honour.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Men, Recruit, Honour

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• Liberty and equality are magical words.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Liberty, Liberty And Equality

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• We should wash our dirty linen at home.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Dirty, Home, Should

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• We are nothing but by the law.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Law

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• Military despotism represses generous sentiments, priestly tyranny stifles them.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Military, Despotism, Tyranny

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• Timid and cowardly soldiers cause the loss of a nation's independence; but pusillanimous magistrates destroy the empire of the laws, the rights of the throne, and even social order itself.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Loss, Rights, Order

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• In these days the invention of printing, and the diffusion of knowledge, render historical calumnies a little less dangerous: truth will always prevail in the long run, but how slow its progress!

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Running, Long, Historical

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• We seek friendly relations with all nations. Any nation can be our friend without being any other nation's enemy.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Enemy, Friendly, Relation

  Nixon, Richard M. (1972). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Richard M. Nixon, 1971”, p.820, Best Books on

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• To stabilize the nations public-employee pension systems and to prevent federal taxpayers from being billed for failed pension funds, I have introduced the Public Employee Pension Transparency Act in Congress.

  Devin Nunes

  Congress, Taxpayers, Employee

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• If the nation is rich but people are poor, the country cannot be strong, and society will be unstable.

  Zong Qinghou

  Country, Strong, People

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• Pluck from under the family all the props which religion and morality have given it, strip it of the glamour, true or false, cast round it by romance, it will still remain a prosaic, indisputable fact, that the whole business of begetting, bearing and rearing children, is the most essential of all the nation's businesses.

  Eleanor Rathbone

  Family, Business, Children

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• the explanation of the ebb and flow of the women's movement ... is partly psychological. During those early post-war years when successes came thick and fast and were almost thrust upon us, the nation was still under the influence of the reconstruction spirit, when everything seemed possible ... A few years later the nation had reached the stage which follows a drinking bout. It was feeling ruefully in its empty pockets. It did not want to part with anything to anybody. Its head ached. Noble sentiments made it feel sick. It wanted only to be left alone.

  Eleanor Rathbone

  War, Drinking, Years

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• If a nation wants to live in peace with its neighbors, it doesn't keep rattling the saber at them.

  Howard W. Koch

  Peace, Want, Neighbor

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• A nation is a thing that lives and acts like a man and men are the particles of which it is composed.

  J. G. Holland

  Men, Particles

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• No nation can be destroyed while it possesses a good home life.

  J. G. Holland

  Home, Home Life, Destroyed

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• Whatever of true glory has been won by any nation of the earth; whatever great advance his been made by any nation in that which constitutes a high Christian civilization, has been always at the cost of sacrifice; has cost the price marked upon it in God's inventory of national good.

  J. G. Holland

  Christian, Sacrifice, Civilization

  J. G. HOLLAND (1866). “PLAIN TALKS ON FAMILIAR SUBJECTS”, p.263

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• No genuine observer can decide otherwise than that the homes of a nation are the bulwarks of personal and national safety and thrift.

  J. G. Holland

  Home, Safety, Genuine

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