Nations Quotes - Page 33

• I don't know how it is the most unattractive creatures of every nation seem to be the ones who travel.

  Elinor Glyn

  Travel, Unattractive, Creatures

  Elinor Glyn (2013). “The Essential Elinor Glyn Collection”, p.249, eBookIt.com

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• the habit of generalizing from one particular, that mainstay of the cheap and obvious essayist, has rooted many fictions in the public eye. Nothing, for example can blot from my memory the profound, searching, and exhaustive analysis of a great nation which I learned in my small geography when I was a child, namely, 'The French are a gay and polite people fond of dancing and light wines.

  Kate Douglas Wiggin

  Children, Memories, Wine

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• Rain is my lover, my apple strudel. / It haunts my heels like a pedigreed poodle. / Beyond the seas or across the nation, / It follows me faithful on every vacation.

  Phyllis McGinley

  Travel, Rain, Vacation

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• Commerce is the equalizer of the wealth of nations.

  William E. Gladstone

  Wealth, Commerce, Equalizer

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• The crisis in America that we barely notice anymore is that we've become two nations - divided by poverty, opportunity, and race. It's like a neighbor's car alarm that we don't hear anymore because it rings so often.

  Arianna Huffington

  Opportunity, Two, America

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• A nation cannot afford to do a mean thing.

  Charles Sumner

  Mean, Meanness

  Charles Sumner (2016). “The Complete Works of Charles Sumner”, p.5771, Library of Alexandria

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• In case after case, President Bush's actions have made American women less safe and less secure -- on the job and on the streets. As president, I will put American government and our legal system back on the side of women. I will stand up for their security, ensure their safety, support their rights, and guarantee their dignity. This nation can do no less.

  John F. Kerry

  Jobs, Rights, Government

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• It's rare that we actively and consciously 'forget'; most of the time we have simply forgotten, with no consciousness of having forgotten. In individuals, the phenomenon is called 'denial'; in entire cultures and nations, it's usually called 'history.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  History, Denial, Culture

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• A nation's budget is full of moral implications; it tells what a society cares about and what it does not care about; it tells what its values are.

  J. William Fulbright

  Doe, Care, Moral

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• What you do is as important as anything government does. I ask you to seek a common good beyond your comfort; to defend needed reforms against easy attacks; to serve your nation, beginning with your neighbor. I ask you to be citizens: citizens, not spectators; citizens, not subjects; responsible citizens, building communities of service and a nation of character.

  George W. Bush

  Character, Government, Community

  First Inaugural Address, delivered 20 January 2001

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• God is not on the side of any nation, yet we know He is on the side of justice... Our finest moments have come when we faithfully served the cause of justice for our own citizens, and for the people of other lands.

  George W. Bush

  Land, Justice, People

  George W. Bush's speech at 53rd Anniversary of National Day of Prayer, georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov. May 6, 2004.

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• Americans are a free people, who know that freedom is the right of every person and the future of every nation. The liberty we prize is not America's gift to the world; it is God's gift to humanity.

  George W. Bush

  America, People, Humanity

  Second Presidential State of the Union Address, delivered January 28, 2003

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• When two working people decide to marry, their federal income tax is usually increased. As soon as one spouse earns at least 20 percent of a married couple's total income, the couple pays a 'marriage tax.' ... The United States is the only major industrialized nation in the free world in which the tax cost of the second [married] earner's entry into the work force is higher than that of the first. On one hand, our government's social policy is to help working women earn equal salaries to those of men, but on the other we have a tax structure that penalizes them when they do so.

  Millicent Fenwick

  Couple, Men, Hands

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• I ask myself, have nations ever declined from a loss of moral sense rather than from physical reasons or the pressure of barbarians? I think that they have.

  Barbara Tuchman

  Loss, Thinking, Barbarians

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• the higher the development of women, the more they suffer from the 'patriotic' mandate to bear many children to replace the nation's losses. For they know that, from the point of view of their personal development as well as that of the race, fewer but better children are to be preferred.

  Ellen Key

  Children, Patriotic, Loss

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• If the national mind of America be judged of by its legislation, it is of a very high order ... If the American nation be judged of by its literature, it may be pronounced to have no mind at all.

  Harriet Martineau

  Order, Law, America

  Harriet Martineau (2004). “Harriet Martineau: Studies of America, 1831-1868”

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• The gaps in power, the gaps in wealth, the gaps in ideology which hold the nations apart also make up the abyss into which mankind can fall to annihilation.

  Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth

  Fall, Gaps, Wealth

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• the distinction between rich nations and poor nations is one of the great dominant political and international themes of our century.

  Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth

  Political, Poor Nations, Rich

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• A nation does not create the historians it deserves; the historians are far more likely to create the nation.

  C. V. Wedgwood

  History, Doe, Historian

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• Nationalism will keep its venom until we succeed in creating an image of the nations of the whole world as so many provinces.

  Storm Jameson

  Creating, World, Succeed

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• A nation has honor precisely as it has fleas - on this or that body. The statesman who talks of honor - unless he means something else, quite different - is a rogue.

  Storm Jameson

  Mean, Honor, Fleas

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• There is something infinitely dingy about the word workshop. Pray that England doesn't become a nation of workshopkeepers.

  Jilly Cooper

  England, Praying, Workshops

  Jilly Cooper (2012). “Angels Rush In”, p.344, Random House

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• Isn't it strange how the leaders of nations can talk so eloquently about peace while they prepare for war? ... There is no way to make peace while preparing for war.

  Coretta Scott King

  War, Leader, Way

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• In the turbulence of this anxious and active world many people are leading uneventful, lonely lives. To them dreariness, not disaster, is the enemy. They seldom realize that on their steadfastness, on their ability to withstand the fatigue of dull repetitive work, and on their courage in meeting constant small adversities depend in great measure the happiness and prosperity of the community as a whole. ... The upward course of a nation's history is due in the long run to the soundness of heart of its average men and women.

  Queen Elizabeth II

  Running, Lonely, Adversity

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• The nations which have received and in any way dealt fairly and mercifully with the Jew have prospered, and the nations that have tortured and oppressed him have written out their own curse.

  Olive Schreiner

  Way, Curse, Jew

  Olive Schreiner (2005). “Words in Season: The Public Writings with Her Own Remembrances Collected for the First Time”, Penguin Global

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