Without publicity there can be no public support, and without public support every nation must decay.

Whether slavery shall go into Nebraska, or other new territories, is not a matter of exclusive concern to the people who may go there. The whole nation is interested that the best use shall be made of these territories. We want them for the homes of free white people.

In a democracy, the well-being, individuality and happiness of every citizen is important for the overall prosperity, peace and happiness of the nation.

The decline of literature indicates the decline of a nation.

The nation which can prefer disgrace to danger is prepared for a master and deserves one.

In karting, in the European races, you have the cameras and the film crews and you do interviews. At around 13 I’d already started doing bit of media and it just increases more and more with every level you take, especially when you get into cars – and when you hit F1 it’s an even higher step up. It’s something you get used to over time.

Our chief justices have probably had more profound and lasting influence on their times and on the direction of the nation than most presidents.

A great poet is the most precious jewel of a nation.

The wave of evil washes all our institutions alike.

The atomic bomb certainly is the most powerful of all weapons, but it is conclusively powerful and effective only in the hands of the nation which controls the sky.

It is well enough that people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning.

We are a nation of communities… a brilliant diversity spread like stars, like a thousand points of light in a broad and peaceful sky.

I had faith in Israel before it was established, I have in it now. I believe it has a glorious future before it – not just another sovereign nation, but as an embodiment of the great ideals of our civilization.

If we ever forget that we are One Nation Under God, then we will be a nation gone under.

The resolve of our great nation is being tested. But make no mistake, we will show the world that we will pass the test.

Something’s very wrong with a nation that would rather spend money on war than take care of its children.

Loyalty to the Nation all the time, loyalty to the Government when it deserves it.

The ads all call me fearless, but that’s just publicity. Anyone who thinks I’m not scared out of my mind whenever I do one of my stunts is crazier than I am.

The separation of church and state is a source of strength, but the conscience of our nation does not call for separation between men of state and faith in the Supreme Being.

No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare.

The Youth of a Nation are the trustees of posterity.

I am against nature. I don’t dig nature at all. I think nature is very unnatural. I think the truly natural things are dreams, which nature can’t touch with decay.

It was the nation and the race dwelling all round the globe that had the lion’s heart. I had the luck to be called upon to give the roar.

I am concerned for the security of our great Nation; not so much because of any threat from without, but because of the insidious forces working from within.

Now if there is one thing that we do worse than any other nation, it is try and manage somebody else’s affairs.

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.

We are nauseated by the sight of trivial personalities decomposing in the eternity of print.

You can tell the strength of a nation by the women behind its men.

Agriculture not only gives riches to a nation, but the only riches she can call her own.

In the West, we have been withdrawing from our tradition-, religion-, and even nation-centred cultures.

Let the people on both sides keep their self-possession, and just as other clouds have cleared away in due time, so will this, and this great nation shall continue to prosper as before.

Tradition becomes our security, and when the mind is secure it is in decay.

The honor of a nation is its life.

Admiration is a very short-lived passion, that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object.

Every nation has to follow a certain policy: Commercial, trade, various other types of policies.

The strength of a nation derives from the integrity of the home.

We do not covet anything from any nation except their respect.

Where there is righteousness in the heart, there is beauty in the character. When there is beauty in the character, there is harmony in the home. When there is harmony in the home, there is order in the nation. When there is order in the nation, there is peace in the world.

If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.

Every nation whose affairs betray a want of wisdom and stability may calculate on every loss which can be sustained from the more systematic policy of its wiser neighbors.

A nation’s culture resides in the hearts and in the soul of its people.

There never was and is not likely soon to be a nation of philosophers, nor am I certain it is desirable that there should be.

What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.

The effect of power and publicity on all men is the aggravation of self, a sort of tumor that ends by killing the victim’s sympathies.

Herb is the healing of a nation, alcohol is the destruction.

‚Nation‘ was one that I’d have killed myself if I hadn’t written it. It was absolutely important to me that I wrote it. It was good for my soul.

Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education. The human mind is our fundamental resource.

America is never wholly herself unless she is engaged in high moral principle. We as a people have such a purpose today. It is to make kinder the face of the nation and gentler the face of the world.

The United States is a nation of laws: badly written and randomly enforced.

Faith crosses every border and touches every heart in every nation.

England is a nation of shopkeepers.

In this outward and physical ceremony we attest once again to the inner and spiritual strength of our Nation. As my high school teacher, Miss Julia Coleman, used to say: ‚We must adjust to changing times and still hold to unchanging principles.‘

What I believe unites the people of this nation, regardless of race or region or party, young or old, rich or poor, is the simple, profound belief in opportunity for all – the notion that if you work hard and take responsibility, you can get ahead.

America… just a nation of two hundred million used car salesmen with all the money we need to buy guns and no qualms about killing anybody else in the world who tries to make us uncomfortable.

I don’t call up the press and say, ‚Look at me!‘

The greatness of a nation can be judged by the way its animals are treated.

Democratic nations must try to find ways to starve the terrorist and the hijacker of the oxygen of publicity on which they depend.

When a nation is surrounded by weaponized nations, she has to equip herself.

What is true of the individual will be tomorrow true of the whole nation if individuals will but refuse to lose heart and hope.

Every age has its own poetry; in every age the circumstances of history choose a nation, a race, a class to take up the torch by creating situations that can be expressed or transcended only through poetry.

Tonight, we gather to affirm the greatness of our nation – not because of the height of our skyscrapers, or the power of our military, or the size of our economy. Our pride is based on a very simple premise, summed up in a declaration made over two hundred years ago.