Practical Quotations » Nation

George Washington

George Washington — Mon, 03 May 2010 21:28:38 +0000

Nations are not influenced, as individuals may be, by disinterested friendships; but, when it is their interest to live in amity, we have little reason to apprehend any rupture.

Winston Churchill

Winston Churchill — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 20:14:11 +0000

A nation without a conscience is a nation without a soul. A nation without a soul is a nation that cannot live.

Winston Churchill

Winston Churchill — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 20:04:43 +0000

…imagination without deep and full knowledge is a snare…

John Jay

John Jay — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 17:42:53 +0000

But the safety of the people of America against dangers from foreign force depends not only on their forbearing to give just causes of war to other nations, but also on their placing and continuing themselves in such a situation as not to invite hostility or insult.

John Jay

John Jay — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 17:27:03 +0000

Providence has given to our people the choice of their rulers, and it is the duty, as well as the privilege and interest of our Christian nation to select and prefer Christians for their rulers.

Patrick Henry

Patrick Henry — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 21:33:15 +0000

Righteousness alone can exalt America as a nation. Whoever thou art, remember this; and in thy sphere practice virtue thyself, and encourage it in others.

Thomas Jefferson

Thomas Jefferson — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 05:35:08 +0000

God who gave us life gave us liberty. And can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we have removed their only firm basis, a conviction in the minds of the people that these liberties are of the Gift of God?

Thomas Jefferson

Thomas Jefferson — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 02:33:10 +0000

The elective franchise, if guarded as the ark of our safety, will peaceably dissipate all combinations to subvert a Constitution, dictated by the wisdom, and resting on the will of the people.

Benjamin Franklin

Benjamin Franklin — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 20:31:07 +0000

[O]nly a virtuous people are capable of freedom. As nations become corrupt and vicious, they have more need of masters.

Josiah Bartlett

Josiah Bartlett — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 22:53:04 +0000

…[t]hat the knowledge of the Gospel of Jesus Christ may be made known to all nations, pure and undefiled religion universally prevail, and the earth be fill with the glory of the Lord.

John Quincy Adams

John Quincy Adams — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 21:13:26 +0000

In the chain of human events, the birthday of the nation [of the United States] is indissolubly linked with the birthday of the Savior.

John Quincy Adams

John Quincy Adams — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 21:10:38 +0000

The law given from Sinai was a civil and municipal as well as a moral and religious code; it contained many statutes . . . of universal application – laws essential to the existence of men in society, and most of which have been enacted by every nation which ever professed any code of laws.

John Quincy Adams

John Quincy Adams — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 20:48:48 +0000

And may the associated distribution of the Bible proceed and prosper till the Lord shall have made “bare His holy arm in the eyes of all the nations, and all the ends of the earth shall see the salvation of our God” [Isaiah 52:10].

John Adams

John Adams — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 02:12:26 +0000

Suppose a nation in some distant region should take the Bible for their only law book and every member should regulate his conduct by the precepts there exhibited. . . . What a Eutopia – what a Paradise would this region be!