We don't bother much about dress and manners in England, because as a nation we don't dress well and we've no manners.
George Bernard Shaw
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Make money and the whole nation will conspire to call you a gentleman.
George Bernard Shaw
Individuals may form communities, but it is institutions alone that can create a nation.
Benjamin Disraeli
It is well enough that the people of this 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
I believe this nation should commit itself, to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to the earth.
John F. Kennedy
Let us think of education as the means of developing our greatest abilities, because in each of us there is a private hope and dream which, fulfilled, can be translated into benefit for everyone and greater strength for our nation.
John F. Kennedy
Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education. The human mind is our fundamental resource.
John F. Kennedy
No nation was ever drunk when wine was cheap.
Thomas Jefferson
Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the act of depriving a whole nation of arms, as the blackest.
Mahatma Ghandi
It is impossible to rightly govern a nation without God and the Bible.
George Washington
The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated.
Mahatma Gandhi
Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the Act depriving a whole nation of arms, as the blackest.
Mahatma Gandhi
The nation that secures control of the air will ultimately control the world.
Alexander Graham Bell
No nation is fit to sit in judgement upon any other nation.
Woodrow Wilson
A nation that draws too broad a difference between its scholars and its warriors will have its thinking done by cowards, and its fighting done by fools.
Thucydides
America is not merely a nation but a nation of nations.
Lyndon B. Johnson
The Hebrews have done more to civilize men than any other nation. If I were an atheist, and believed blind eternal fate, I should still believe that fate had ordained the Jews to be the most essential instrument for civilizing the nations.
John Adams
No, I don't know that atheists should be considered as citizens, nor should they be considered as patriots. This is one nation under God.
George W. Bush
A nation which can prefer disgrace to danger is prepared for a master, and deserves one.
Alexander Hamilton
It can not be emphasized too strongly or too often that this great nation was founded, not by religionists, but by Christians, not on religions, but on the gospel of Jesus Christ!
Patrick Henry
Although our great man at the head of the nation, has changed his course, I will not change mine.
Davy Crockett
God is not on the side of any nation, yet we know He is on the side of justice. Our finest moments [as a nation] have come when we faithfully served the cause of justice for our own citizens, and for the people of other lands.
George W. Bush
Every nation in every region now has a decision to make. Either you are with us, or you are with the terrorists.
George W. Bush
Few people can be happy unless they hate some other person, nation, or creed.
Bertrand Russell
It's unreal. In a couple days it's really going to sink in that we did it, we're the best team in the nation.
Tonton Balenga
That says a lot about the program that Jeff came back. He's a clutch player and I think he's got a chance to be one of the best catchers in the nation.
Rich Maloney
If the chiefs are united-the nation would follow suit.
Ratu Ovini Bokini
By carrying the torch, you will be bridging cultural and social barriers, and all the boundaries that separate nation from nation.
Carl Lewis
This sends a message that we should be monitoring this as a nation, and we don't do it. States have no idea about the knowledge and skills of their college graduates.
Joni Finney
To hang in there for 37 minutes with one of the top programs in the nation, we felt good about what we did. We've come a long way in three years, though we're not where we want to be.
Wendell Early
For me, there's no distinction between English and British. We are the biggest nation in the world that plays this game and we want someone who can really move us on.
Dave Richards
A liberal education... frees a man from the prison-house of his class, race, time, place, background, family and even his nation.
Robert M. Hutchins
As the family goes, so goes the nation and so goes the whole world in which we live.
Pope John Paul Ii
Outside the kingdom of the Lord thee is no nation which is greater than any other. God and history will remember your judgment.
Haile Selassie
It took far too long for this book to be written. But it also took a long time for Germany as a nation to be able to look clearly at what happened in the Nazi era.
Otto Schily
In the U.S. presently there are only a few places where citizens can act in this fashion and have a say in our nation.
Dan Dewalt
He's a brutal Marxist dictator. He's teamed up with Fidel Castro. He's trying to split our nation.
Michael Heath
Liberty is a great celestial Goddess, strong, beneficent, and austere, and she can never descend upon a nation by the shouting of crowds, nor by arguments of unbridled passion, nor by the hatred of class against class.
Annie Besant
I'm happy I've been all my life with my nation, was respected and honored by my nation, could be useful and help my people.
Islom Karimov
In any case, fighting will not settle whether the claims were just or unjust. It will only settle which nation can mobilize and handle its fighting forces and its economic forces the better.
Rufus Jones
There is no cure for the pride of a virtuous nation but pure religion.
Reinhold Niebuhr
If some of the capabilities can be provided by the host nation, or are not required, then we can tailor our force and mission requirements around that.
Rear Admiral Marc Purcell
The challenge of social justice is to evoke a sense of community that we need to make our nation a better place, just as we make it a safer place.
Marian Wright Edelman
If the people of Bangladesh give us the responsibility of running the nation, we will accept it.
Abdur Rahman
Our last place team could have probably won many conferences across the nation. That's the good thing about it (Big Ten). It spears the athletes on and pushes them to better performances and that is why we are here.
Jack L. Warner
The nice thing about it is that it's going to be one of two emergency rooms designed this way in the nation.
Shannon Mitchell
The greatness of America lies not in being more enlightened than any other nation, but rather in her ability to repair her faults.
Alexis De Tocqueville
The tunes Johannesburg is playing are the new sounds of a new nation.
Donald Reid
Pennsylvania has become the third-slowest growing state in the nation.
Ronald Bailey
Slobodan is the son of the Serbian nation and should be laid to rest in his country. He cannot be erased from history as some want.
Borislav Milosevic
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.
Steve Biko
We live in a prosperous nation, but people have mortgaged their future. Debt is standing in the way of a brighter future. ... People haven't been taught delayed gratification.
Greg Petsch
The nation was totally mobilized for war.
Robert Sklar
A debtor stands before you. I am one of the civilians who are in your debt. You protected our nation.
Martin Boire
When I came here almost nine years ago our economy was troubled and our nation was divided.
Rodney King
No modern nation has ever constructed a foreign policy that was acceptable to its intellectuals.
Irving Kristol
Our culture defines us as an independent nation. So it's troubling that it is barely on this government's radar.
Stephen Waddell
My government's action got the Peacemakers into this. Perhaps Tom was used as a message to the nation that took the lead in the war.
Carol Rose
The president just mentioned the technologies we do here are technologies that will help the nation use less petroleum. There's some importance that's been attached to that.
George Douglas
We are not looking for power, ... We are not looking for prestige. We are here because we care very, very deeply about the nation. ... We love God, we love our neighbors and we act out of a love of God and love of our neighbors.
Chuck Colson
It's clear that the economic impacts from the hurricanes will stretch well beyond the Gulf Coast region to all corners of the nation and beyond. Of great concern for the economy is the mood of the U.S. consumer.
Scott Anderson
The number one problem facing our nation today.
Mona Williams
There's nothing like it in the nation, and we all feel lucky.
Jamie Christensen
Can a nation be free if it oppresses other nations? It cannot.
Vladimir Lenin
I'm not really surprised about the ranking. How good is it here? It's so good that we have a higher inflation rate than the nation.
Paul Brewbaker
Locally, we have a higher concentration (of manufacturing jobs) than the rest of the nation. When there's a manufacturing downturn, we feel it.
John Slenker
Blood is a cleansing and sanctifying thing, and the nation that regards it as the final horror has lost its manhood... there are many things more horrible than bloodshed, and slavery is one of them!
George Gissing
Some of the nicest people I met with in Africa were members of the Nation of Islam. You have to believe that sincere people, that good people, can hold bad beliefs.
Tucker Carlson
Carter's approach is to try to decide what was best for the nation.
Merle Black
We want to win and devote our World Cup berth to our nation.
Mateja Kezman
The people aren't moving toward the coast, the coast is moving toward the people. People have been put in harm's way for the economic interest of the rest of the nation.
Robert Twilley
It should be a challenging schedule for us. We're playing teams from all over the nation.
Chris Huesman
Cheapen our right to call ourselves a civilized nation.
Cherie Booth
I will devote my body and soul to the service of the people and the nation.
Norodom Sihamoni
We fired the shot that will be heard around the nation. What we need to do is to say no to the federal government - and not just in New Hampshire, but in many other states.
Rep. Neal Kurk
In a nation ruled by swine, all pigs are upward mobile.
Hunter S. Thompson
This nation is poised to trash the first amendment just to stop my preaching. I'm kind of honored.
Fred Phelps
We hope to beat our score last year and do better than eighth in the nation.
Sarah Lewis
Why should Ireland be treated as a geographical fragment of England - Ireland is not a geographical fragment, but a nation.
Charles Stewart Parnell
This will not be as generous as people think, ... Face the Nation.
Donna Shalala
They're trying to inject the Nation of Islam as some kind of a buzz word into this.
Mark Geragos
No nation ever taxed itself into prosperity.
Rush Limbaugh
These were great men that had dedicated their lives to serving the nation. We don't think we need to mourn anymore.
Mwansa Mbulakulima
President Bush and Mrs. Bush are deeply saddened by the news. It's a tremendous loss for our nation.
Dan Bartlett
These books are going to rock the nation. Elly and Ray are two of the three jurors who initially voted for guilty.
Larry Garrison
They have one of the most physical teams in the nation. On the other hand, we have one of the fastest teams in the nation.
Scott Jacko
Our men and women in uniform put their lives on the line for our nation every day; they should not have to jeopardize their financial well-being as well.
Mark Pryor
One nation indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.
Michael Newdow
This is the best example of what can happen when public institutions and private institutions, like my company, learn to work together for the good of the community and the nation.
David Murdock
This nation will be shaken like it has not been shaken before. There are leaders, many leaders of the church, many ministers, who will die prematurely.
Pastor Ferdinand Nicholls
As the entire nation responds to those devastated by Hurricane Katrina, the community and technical colleges of Alabama will extend our help to students whose education has been dramatically interrupted..
Roy Johnson
In every community, there is work to be done. In every nation, there are wounds to heal. In every heart, there is the power to do it.
Marianne Williamson
South Korea is seen as a U.S. ally and would not be seen as a neutral nation in the eyes of many of the countries in the world.
Ralph Cossa
The schedule is set up for singles or doubles to compete against highly ranked teams in the nation.
John Severance
DICTATOR, n. The chief of a nation that prefers the pestilence of despotism to the plague of anarchy.
Ambrose Bierce
You can tell the ideals of a nation by its advertisements.
Norman Douglas
A man cannot govern a nation if he cannot govern a city; he cannot govern a city if he cannot govern a family; he cannot govern a family unless he can govern himself; and he cannot govern himself unless his passions are subject to reason.
Hugo Grotius
They are an excellent team. Obviously they are some of the best players in the nation. It's not very often that you get this kind of opportunity, let alone win.
Jennifer Rockwood
The National Salute to Hospitalized Veterans gives everyone a chance to let those who have given the nation so much know that their sacrifices are not forgotten.
Michael Winn
Things worked from the beginning. It fed on itself. It was the whole team. It had to be to beat a top-ranked team in the nation.
John Errecart
The greatest man is he who forms the taste of a nation; the next greatest is he who corrupts it.
Sir Joshua Reynolds
We are facing serious danger from the rain, ... We are staying on alert in nearly every part of the nation.
Ricardo Maduro
It is never too early to begin influencing the policies of our nation.
John Linder
Americans have been taught that their nation is civilized and humane. But, too often, U.S. actions have been uncivilized and inhumane.
Howard Zinn
I consider him one of the best coaches in the nation. Through competitions we also have become good friends.
James Wagoner
This is very important. Israel is a democratic nation and we must maintain those civil liberties. They apply even to terrorists when they are caught. And Israeli courts strictly enforce those civil liberties.
Ron Habler
The importance of the river cannot be overstated in the history of the country, or the development of the nation.
Maurice Hinchey
People certainly have legitimate concerns about the war in Iraq, and our state is very diverse when it comes to trade issues, ... The war has been divisive, not just in our state, but in our nation.
Paul Berendt
We're not doing it because we're a charity. We're doing it because we're a New Zealand company and it's in our interests that New Zealand is better off and more competitive as a nation.
Lloyd Morrison
We as a nation--government working with the private sector--must do more to accelerate this technology and make it accessible to American drivers.
Sue Cischke
The government must speak for you, and the nation, which are the same. That is the law.
Atsuko Abe
Without a land base you're not a people, you're not a nation. That's been a struggle for our people for over a century now.
David Chartrand
A people without a language of its own, is only half a nation.
Thomas Osborne Davis
The Akaka bill would be devastating to Hawaii, but it is also dangerous for the rest of America. That's because the bill breaks new legal ground with a theory of the Constitution that would speed up the balkanization of our nation.
Ken Conklin
We, as individuals, are fast losing our reputation for honest dealing. Our nation is losing its character. The loss of a firm national character, or the degredation of a nation's honour, is the inevitable prelude to her destruction.
William Wells Brown
North Central is the class of the state right now, if not in the nation.
Tom Burchill
Pull this nation together now.
Lyndon Larouche
I conclude that there now is a combination of conditions that will reasonably assure the appearance of Dr. Lee as required and the safety of the community and the nation.
James Parker
Let us not forget the great tragedy that has befallen this nation, ... restoring the public confidence that this marketplace will be up and functioning.
Richard Grasso
He wanted total state control, and we're a sovereign nation.
Michell Hicks
I have been looking forward to this since my freshman year, because Texas had the No. 1 recruiting class in the nation, and we were second. So this will decide which one was better.
Nate Salley
Resolved, that the women of this nation in 1876, have greater cause for discontent, rebellion and revolution than the men of 1776.
Susan B. Anthony
Justice is the bread of the nation, it is always hungry for it.
François R. Chateaubriand
We as a nation are not as oil dependant as we were back then.
Christopher Thornberg
There are programs like this all over the nation. The premise behind it is improvement of the self ... improvement of the community.
Andrew Speller
They don't let us inside... they don't give us a chance to put our case. They forget those of the Turkish nation killed by Armenians.
Mustafa Kemal Ataturk
The universal franchise is a bad idea. The notion that the destiny of the nation should be put in the hands of ignoramuses, parasites, boobs, party hacks and idiots is absurd on its face.
Charley Reese
It's the wave of the future, ... I'm excited about what's happening in our nation.
Gresham Barrett
They have refused to negotiate. These are not the actions of a nation that wants peace.
Yemane Gebremeskel
There is no calamity which a great nation can invite which equals that which follows a supine submission to wrong and injustice.
Grover Cleveland
We are a nation called to defend freedom - a tradition that is not a grant of any government or document, but is an endowment from God.
John Ashcroft
It gave us a lot of confidence. We played against one of the best teams in the nation and this will give us a lot of confidence going into next weekend.
Lauren Hines
If you can announce the seasons or the birth of a child, you can certainly announce the reasons for the birth of a nation.
Luke Lirot
When you play the No. 1 team in the nation, kids get focused.
Randy Tribble
Personal responsibility is a difficult thing to ask for in a nation which has attempted to find a societal "root cause" for all things.
Shapley R. Hunter
The basic dream of many Colombians is to have a secure nation, without exclusions, with equity, and without hatred.
Alvaro Uribe Velez
It sends a message that our people want change. It has been a success of the people and a success for the democracy of our nation.
Mireya Moscoso
Her public service announcement for us went out all over the nation.
Charles Ray
This will help kids understand the importance of bridge construction, cost and that West Virginia leads the nation in bridge design and bridge inspection. And it's something we could all be proud of.
Terri Lively
Our nation is owed an apology for our state's role in starting the abortion holocaust.
Diane Hochevar
Lifestyle is a huge contributor to the health of the nation and male fertility is just one area adversely affected by an unhealthy lifestyle.
Ann Robinson
Basically they are advocating for a separate nation within a nation.
Tim Donnelly
We have to move beyond the grainy black-and-white approach of blaming lyrics. We need to move forward and apply full-spectrum, high-definition solutions to the challenges facing our nation.
Krist Novoselic
Our goal is to spread the risk out as far as possible across the nation. It's clearly not a partisan issue.
John Garamendi
The southeast has the highest residential electricity use in the nation. We consume more electricity, more coal-fired electricity in the south. That's why it's such a great place to begin. If we can cut the bills in half here, we can lead the nation.
Jeff Barrie
I sincerely believe that this is the last chance to keep this island community, older than the nation itself, from slipping away into history.
Chris Rich
Sharon has transformed his image from that of a headstrong adventurer into a father of the nation. Like a good wine, he has aged well.
Dominique Moisi
Fair-share health care is going to sweep the nation.
Vincent Demarco
This has been a tough year for many of our farmers in North Dakota and across the nation.
Kent Conrad
This (policy) is an old dinosaur that is an embarrassment to the nation.
Sgt. Steve Maynard
There is no force like success, and that is why the individual makes all effort to surround himself throughout life with the evidence of it; as of the individual, so should it be of the nation.
Marcus Garvey
He's their guy, the offense goes through him. He's one of the best players in the nation right now and he's got a great game. It's a challenge.
Matthew Gipson
The most sacred moment for the nation.
Chandrika Kumaratunga
We have to innovate. No nation can be successful unless they are involved in innovative and creative activities.
Najib Tun Razak
The Establishment center... has led us into the stupidest and cruelest war in all history. That war is a moral and political disaster - a terrible cancer eating away at the soul of our nation.
George Mcgovern
We're helping a nation that was being murdered by a madman. He was a dictator that needed to be removed.
Gary Peabody
Ed typified firefighters of this nation and the volunteer fire department by trying to help somebody before helping himself.
Tony Correia
We must be the conscience of our nation. We've got to help somebody. That's what Dr. King would want us to do.
John Jordan
We are extremely excited to announce the Frozen Four Skills Challenge and look forward to this event. This should be an outstanding event featuring some of the top college hockey players in the nation, both male and female, and will add to the fan experience to make this into a full weekend of exciting hockey action.
Tom Jacobs
An individual, in promoting his own interest, may injure the public interest; a nation, in promoting the general welfare, may check the interest of a part of its members.
Friedrich List
I just do not see a sense of urgency in industry reflective of the fact that we are a nation at war.
Donald Winter
It is just a political maneuver that will not contribute anything significant to the nation and state.
Ahmad Rofiq
A battle lost or won is easily described, understood, and appreciated, but the moral growth of a great nation requires reflection, as well as observation, to appreciate it.
Frederick Douglass
I'll be talking about how the cost-competitiveness of the nation is in jeopardy. Many companies are moving to Canada because they have socialized health care.
Ravi Sahay
A great leader for our country because what he's saying is, you know, with all due respect, we don't think that this is right for our nation.
Tom Daschle
Is the foundation of our judicial system as well as the founding of our nation, and that to remove it is in violation of the First Amendment.
Brian Chavez
They're a good team, I ain't going to lie. At first I had my doubts that they were a legit No. 2, but after today I know they really deserve to be the No. 2 team in the nation.
David Overstreet
We were respected as the most disinterested and charitable nation in the world.
Robert A. Taft
He baby-sat a nation.
Russell Johnson
The county's income is declining because manufacturing is declining, and manufacturing is declining ... as something we value as a nation. The Big Three are having less and less of an impact in Macomb County, and the auto industry in general has less and less of an impact on the nation's economy.
Jim Jacobs
They're the No. 1 team in the nation.
Mark Curlett
We want to be the top nation in Europe and I think the challenge is also to beat the Australians because they have invested heavily in sport.
Craig Reedie
What's unique about this center is that it is one of the few, if not only, free standing black cultural centers in the nation.
Ron Parker
The future of our nation depends on our ability to produce food and fiber to sustain the world.
Phil Bredesen
This is a freedom of speech issue, and we're going to use the First Amendment to declare that abortion is murder. We're going to do it in front of the courthouse and courtroom, and we're going to do it across the nation.
Troy Newman
The president realizes the importance of recognizing American Jewish contributions to this nation.
Blair Jones
That's what happens when you play the No. 1 (defense) in the nation. It was tough out there, and we just didn't get it done.
Hunter Cantwell
One of the largest mental health care providers in the nation is Los Angeles County jail system.
David Doolen
We are not a nation that likes war. We just want everybody to be on his own side.
Camille Chamoun
He has the best wishes of the entire nation. Let's hope he recovers very soon.
Somnath Chatterjee
In my eye, China is a nation that can always be a friend and partner of Africa.
Alpha Oumar Konare
This is the best thing that ever happened to the Liberal Party. Now, the entire Filipino nation can tell who among us joined the Liberal Party for political convenience and who joined for principles and conviction.
Franklin Drilon
This result permits us to have a more relaxed atmosphere before we play our last game against the host nation.
Henri Michel
Look at the media we're attracting. This is not positive media, folks, this is negative media. We're becoming the laughingstock not only of the nation, but of the world, and I hate that.
Janet Waugh
New sacrifice in the interest of the nation.
Abdelaziz Bouteflika
Under-age drinking is becoming acceptable - and the implications for the health of the nation are dire.
Theresa May
It was a great experience playing against some of the top players in the nation, you can't beat that.
Johann Jones
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