“It's people like you that are gonna save this nation.”— Boots Riley, Steve Lift, Armie Hammer, imdb.com
“Today, America and the world are once again moving towards authoritarianism — and the same right-wing forces of oligarchy, corporatism, nationalism, racism and xenophobia are on the march, pushing us to make the apocalyptically wrong choice that Europe made in the last century.”— Bernie Sanders, vox.com
“Our nation must be governed not from chaos but from opportunity. Not by wallowing over what’s wrong, but by marching inexorably toward what’s right. That’s got to start with all of us.”— Amy Klobuchar, twincities.com
“Thanksgiving has become a day when Americans extend a helping hand to the less fortunate. Long before there was a government welfare program, this spirit of voluntary giving was ingrained in the American character. Americans have always understand that, truly, one must give in order to receive. This…”— Ronald Reagan, ronaldreagan.com
“At the present moment in world history nearly every nation must choose between alternative ways of life. The choice is too often not a free one.”— Harry S Truman, en.wikisource.org
“So long as there are employers who attack social understanding and have wrong ideas of justice and fair play it is not only the right but also the duty of their employees—who are, after all, an integral part of our people—to protect the general interests against the greed and unreason of the individ…”— Adolf Hitler, amazon.com
“Cinema is the heir of all artistic cultures, as is the nation itself that elevated it for the first time in all history – both in estimation and creatively – to the very heights of art, and it is the heir of all cultures of the preceding ages.”— Sergei Eisenstein,
“Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.”— Abraham Lincoln, rogerjnorton.com
“The rights which belong to us as a nation are not alone to be regarded, but those which pertain to every citizen in this individual capacity, at home and abroad, must be sacredly maintained.”— Franklin Pierce, amazon.com
“We have nothing in our history or position to invite aggression; we have everything to beckon us to the cultivation of relations of peace and amity with all nations”— Franklin Pierce, amazon.com
“It is no paradox to say that although comparatively weak the new-born nation was intrinsically strong.”— Franklin Pierce, amazon.com
“Under the benignant providence of Almighty God the representatives of the States and of the people are again brought together to deliberate for the public good. The gratitude of the nation to the sovereign arbiter of all human events should be commensurate with the boundless blessings which we enjoy…”— James K. Polk, en.wikiquote.org
“According to some people, the US having a black president was an Obama-nation.”— such_isnt_life, reddit.com
“Among the basic freedoms to which men aspire that their lives might be full and uncramped, freedom from fear stands out as both a means and an end. A people who would build a nation in which strong, democratic institutions are firmly established as a guarantee against state-induced power must first…”— Aung San Suu Kyi, amazon.com
“The good ruler sublimates his needs as an individual to the service of the nation.”— Aung San Suu Kyi, amazon.com
“If a people or a nation can reach their objectives by disciplined and peaceful means, it would be a most honourable and admirable achievement.”— Aung San Suu Kyi, amazon.com
“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, amazon.com
“I beseech those whose piety will permit them reverently to petition, that they will pray for this union, and ask that He who buildeth up and pulleth down nations will, the mercy preserve and unite us. For a Nation divided against itself cannot stand. I wish, if this Union must be dissolved, that its…”— Sam Houston, samhoustonmemorialmuseum.com
“Whether his policy was right or wrong, he built up the glory of the nation.”— Sam Houston, samhoustonmemorialmuseum.com