Quotes of: National-championship Keyword

America is the wealthiest nation on Earth, but its people are mainly poor, and poor Americans are urged to hate themselves.... It is in fact a crime for an American to be poor, even though America is a nation of poor. Every other nation has folk trad...

Slaughterhouse-Five

Clever lies become matters of self-congratulation. Solemn pledges become a farce—laughable for their very solemnity. The Nation, with all its paraphernalia of power and prosperity, its flags and pious hymns, its blasphemous prayers in the churches,...

Nationalism

Fleecing the Third World has been a reality for decades if not centuries. Mineral-abundant Third World nations, which should be some of the richest on Earth, are all too often among the poorest. Many argue that the poverty of these nations can usuall...

The Orphan Conspiracies: 29 Conspiracy Theories from The Orphan Trilogy

These are all good things, I said. But no one knows where your country is or who you are. You don't have a familiar ethnic cuisine; your diaspora , from what I understand, is mostly in Southern California, three time zones removed from the national m...

Absurdistan

C" is for colonies Rightly we boast that of all the great nations Great Britain has most!

An ABC for Baby Patriots

...if George Washington founded the nation, John Marshall defined it.

John Marshall: Definer of a Nation

collecting secrets was and is crucial to solving foreign policy puzzles.

Reshaping National Intelligence for an Age of Information

No. She told me she was going to marry him, to get French nationality . . . She was obsessed with getting a nationality...

Rue des boutiques obscures

Every nation must have prayerful men and women to intercede for the country’s well-being.

Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind

Every nation that carries in its bosom great and unredressed injustice has in it the elements of this last convulsion.

Uncle Tom's Cabin

Is there anything in it glorious and dear for a nation, that is not also glorious and dear for a man? What is freedom to a nation, but freedom to the individuals in it?

Uncle Tom's Cabin

It is the job of the market to turn the base material of our emotions into gold.

Zombification: Stories from National Public Radio

China cannot pull in the best and brightest from all over the world. It's an ethnically defined nation, the opposite of an immigrant nation. You don't see a lot of American engineers trying to be Chinese citizens.

Amy Chua

If the United Nations once admits that international disputes can be settled by using force, then we will have destroyed the foundation of the organization and our best hope of establishing a world order.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Our flag honors those who have fought to protect it, and is a reminder of the sacrifice of our nation's founders and heroes. As the ultimate icon of America's storied history, the Stars and Stripes represents the very best of this nation.

Joe Barton

They put me in a holding cell with a black kid and a white kid and a Chinese kid. We're the United Nations of juvenile delinquents.

Flight

The United Nations has become a largely irrelevant, if not positively destructive institution, and the just-released U.N. report on the atrocities in Darfur, Sudan, proves the point.

Linda Chavez

It is said that no one truly knows a nation until one has been inside its jails. A nation should not be judged by how it treats its highest citizens, but its lowest ones.

Nelson Mandela

America has always welcomed anyone willing to assimilate to its national character. But radical Islam rejects assimilation and is bent on the conquest of our national character.

Nancy Pearcey

With that in mind and in celebration of National Prayer Day, today I have proposed in the House of Representatives a Constitutional Amendment that would restore voluntary prayer in our Nation's schools.

Nick Rahall

The beliefs expressed in the Declaration of Independence remain a standard for our nation today. They also remain a standard for those nations across the globe striving to achieve democracy.

Paul Gillmor