1.
A nation that cannot control its borders is not a nation.
Ronald Reagan
A state lacking jurisdiction over its boundaries is not an independent nation.
2.
Small nations are like indecently dressed women. They tempt the evil-minded.
Julius Nyerere
'Tiny countries are like inappropriately attired women. They entice the wicked.'
3.
This nation has never lived without independence. We cannot and shall not live without it. Either independence or death.
Mustafa Kemal Ataturk
This country has never experienced subjugation. We cannot and will not accept it. Freedom or perdition.
4.
The United States is the most dishonest, ungodly, unspiritual nation that ever existed in the history of the planet.
Dick Gregory
The United States is the most corrupt, immoral, and secular nation that has ever been on Earth.
5.
In the unity of our nations rests the glorious future of our peoples.
Simon Bolivar
'The splendor of our nations lies in the cohesion of our people.'
6.
If our nation is ever taken over, it will be taken over from within.
James Madison
If our country is ever subjugated, it will be conquered internally.
7.
It is the duty of those who are entrusted with the Gospel to endeavor to make it known among all nations.
William Carey
It is the obligation of those who have been charged with the Gospel to strive to promulgate it among all peoples.
8.
John Calhoun, if you secede from my nation I will secede your head from the rest of your body.
Andrew Jackson
'John Calhoun, if you break away from my country I will separate your head from the remainder of your anatomy.'
9.
What history teaches us is that neither nations nor governments ever learn anything from it.
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
What history imparts to us is that neither countries nor regimes ever acquire anything from it.
10.
It is harder to release a nation from servitude than to enslave a free nation.
Simon Bolivar
14.
You can tell the condition of a nation by looking at the status of its women.
Jawaharlal Nehru
15.
Truths are more likely to be discovered by one man than by a nation
Rene Descartes
17.
We are not only a Latin American nation, we are an Afro-American nation also.
Fidel Castro
18.
Control oil and you control nations; control food and you control the people.
Henry A. Kissinger
22.
As a nation, there are many issues we don`t talk about, we just don`t talk about, push them under the rug. Poverty is one of those issues.
Bernie Sanders
24.
We believe that no nation can survive politically free but economically enslaved.
Tommy Douglas
27.
Democracy is never a thing done. Democracy is always something that a nation must be doing.
Archibald MacLeish
28.
There will be no peace among the nations without peace among the religions. There will be no peace among the religions without dialogue among the religions.
Hans Kung
29.
A nation without a religion - that is like a man without breath.
Joseph Goebbels
30.
Until we stand in a place where we have met God, we have no authority to change a Nation
Lou Engle
31.
Can a nation be free if it oppresses other nations? It cannot.
Vladimir Lenin
32.
If we gave up our freedom as the price of security, we would no longer be the great nation that we are.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
33.
Work as if you live in the early days of a better nation.
Alasdair Gray
36.
Nations which don't find their national identities will be preyed upon by other nations.
Mustafa Kemal Ataturk
37.
A nation that destroys its own people is a nation without hope.
Pope John Paul II
38.
It is known that the best nations have always been those which concede the greatest amount of liberty to women.
Charles Fourier
40.
Before peace between the nations, we have to find peace inside that small nation which is our own being.
B.K.S. Iyengar
41.
The establishment of a central bank is 90% of communizing a nation.
Vladimir Lenin
42.
If you are to be an effective nation builder, make it your business, to understand what is really happening in the economy, both nationally and globally.
Strive Masiyiwa
45.
Take away a nation's heritage and they are more easily persuaded.
Karl Marx
46.
It is the English-speaking nations who, almost alone, keep alight the torch of Freedom.
Winston Churchill
47.
When trust is lost, a nation's ability to transact business is palpably undermined.
Alan Greenspan
48.
Our success educationally, industrially and politically is based upon the protection of a nation founded by ourselves. And the nation can be nowhere else but in Africa.
Marcus Garvey
49.
Whatever we once were, we are no longer just a Christian nation; we are also a Jewish nation, a Muslim nation, a Buddhist nation, a Hindu nation, and a nation of nonbelievers.
Barack Obama
50.
A growing nation is the greatest ponzi game ever contrived.
Paul Samuelson