Bouncing Checks

England is a nation of shopkeepers. - Napoleon Bonaparte

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

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

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

The last mosquito that bit me had to check into the Betty Ford clinic. - Joanna Lumley

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

The nation that secures control of the air will ultimately control the world. - Alexander Graham Bell

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

When nobody around you seems to measure up, it's time to check your yardstick. - Bill Lemley

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

Money can't buy you happiness? Well, check this out: I bought myself a happy meal. - Paul F Taylor

A check or credit card, a Gucci bag strap, anything of value will do. Give as you live. - Jesse Jackson

Permit me to issue and control the money of a nation, and I care not who makes its laws. - Mayer A. Rothschild

Yesterday is a cancelled check. Today is cash on the line. Tomorrow is a promissory note. - Hank Stram

Yesterday is a canceled check; tomorrow is a promissory note; today is ready cash - use it. - Kay Lyons

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

We don't seem to be able to check crime, so why not legalize it and then tax it out of business. - Will Rogers

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

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

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.

On my income tax 1040 it says, "Check this box if you are blind." I wanted to put a check mark about three inches away. - Tom Lehrer

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

We have a rule that if you check in code, you have to maintain it. So I mostly code on the side. I don't check in code anymore. - Mark Zuckerberg

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

I do not love to work out, but if I stick to exercising every day and put the right things in my mouth, then my diabetes just stays in check. - Halle Berry

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