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A great nation deserves great art. - Art Delage

England is a nation of shopkeepers. - Napoleon Bonaparte

Children are the wisdom of the nation. - African Saying

New York, the nation's thyroid gland. - Christopher Morley

A war for a great principle ennobles a nation. - Albert Pike

Proverbs are the cream of a nation's thought. - Unknown

The youth of a nation are the trustees of posterity. - Benjamin Disraeli

We shall not flag nor fail. We shall go on to the end. - Winston Churchill

You can tell the ideals of a nation by its advertisements. - Norman Douglas

If a nation loses its storyteller, it loses its childhood. - Peter Handke

A good newspaper, I suppose, is a nation talking to itself. - Arthur Miller

Herb is the healing of a nation, alcohol is the destruction. - Bob Marley

A nation of spaghetti eaters cannot restore Roman civilization. - Benito Mussolini

The nation which forgets its defenders will be itself forgotten. - Calvin Coolidge

Discontent is the first step in the progress of a man or a nation. - Oscar Wilde

One half of the nation is mad - and the other half not very sound. - Tobias Smollett

Upper classes are a nation's past; the middle class is its future. - Ayn Rand

England is an empire, Germany is a nation, a race, France is a person. - Jules Michelet

No one can terrorize a whole nation, unless we are all his accomplices. - Edward R Murrow

Govern a great nation as you would cook a small fish. Do not overdo it. - Lao Tzu

Other people have a nationality. The Irish and the Jews have a psychosis. - Brendan Behan

Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education. - John F Kennedy

Few people can be happy unless they hate some other person, nation, or creed. - Bertrand Russell

Each nation feels superior to other nations. That breeds patriotism - and wars. - Dale Carnegie

A nation which makes the final sacrifice for life and freedom does not get beaten. - Kemal Ataturk

The nation is prosperous on the whole, but how much prosperity is there in a hole? - Will Rogers

The fate of a nation has often depended upon the good or bad digestion of a prime minister. - Voltaire

There are two ways to conquer and enslave a nation. One is by the sword. The other is by debt. - John Adams

The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated. - Mahatma Gandhi

You can conquer the city, the nation, the world, but until you can conquer your spirit, you're a loser. - Unknown

A nation that does not stand for its children does not stand for anything and will not stand tall in the future. - Marian W Edelman

When the law no longer protects you from the corrupt, but protects the corrupt from you, you know your nation is doomed. - Ayn Rand

I have never seen anyone burn a flag. And if I did, it would take every ounce of restraint I had not to haul off and hit them. - Barack Obama

If I were God and I were trying to create a nation that would get up the nostrils of the Englishman, I would create the French. - Julian Barnes

Our loyalties must transcend our race, our tribe, our class, and our nation; and this means we must develop a world perspective. - Martin Luther King Jr.

A nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people. - John F Kennedy

Human kindness has never weakened the stamina or softened the fiber of a free people. A nation does not have to be cruel to be tough. - Franklin D Roosevelt

Cricket civilizes people and creates good gentlemen. I want everyone to play cricket in Zimbabwe; I want ours to be a nation of gentlemen. - Robert Mugabe

A nation that destroys its soils destroys itself. Forests are the lungs of our land, purifying the air and giving fresh strength to our people. - Franklin D Roosevelt

I contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle. - Winston Churchill