Quotes of: National-defense Keyword

Designs in connection with postage stamps and coinage may be described, I think, as the silent ambassadors on national taste.

William Butler Yeats

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

John F. Kennedy

Mr. Obama seeks to federalize large portions of education, beginning with his attempt to nationalize college student loans.

Monica Crowley

Few things are more important to each individual's future success or to our nation's prosperity than education.

Mark Kennedy

Yugoslavia is a multinational community and it can survive only under the conditions of full equality for all nations that live in it.

Slobodan Milosevic

I hold it the duty of the executive to insist upon frugality in the expenditure, and a sparing economy is itself a great national source.

Andrew Johnson

I wish we could get a national buddy network going. It would be a great thing for the American people.

Bart Starr

A battle lost or won is easily described, understood, and appreciated, but the moral growth of a great nation requires reflection, as well as observation, to appreciate it.

Frederick Douglass

The great armies, accumulated to provide security and preserve the peace, carried the nations to war by their own weight.

A. J. P. Taylor

Our shared conservative values, our belief in the individual is the great hope of our nation.

Rick Perry

A good nationalism has to depend on a principle of the common people, on myths of a struggling commonality.

Andrew O'Hagan

A good government remains the greatest of human blessings and no nation has ever enjoyed it.

Dean Inge

I have repeatedly said, when asked, that if the stories about me helped inspired our troops and rally a nation, then perhaps there was some good.

Jessica Lynch

For the good of our environment, the good of the economy, and the good of the Nation, I strongly urge support of the upper Mississippi locks and dams project.

Leonard Boswell

In a politically diverse nation, only by finding that common ground can we achieve results for the common good.

Olympia Snowe

I am always the 'good guy', and I take on the idiotic jerks of the nation.

Wally George

So far as it depends on the course of this government, our relations of good will and friendship will be sedulously cultivated with all nations.

John Tyler

I'm on the board of a national group called Faith in America. It's designed to fight religious-based bigotry.

James McGreevey

I believe transparency in government is key to restoring our nation's faith in its elected leaders.

Kirsten Gillibrand

With gridlock the norm, Congress's approval rating is below 10 percent and the public has lost faith in its national leadership.

Ron Fournier

A nation that does not stand for its children does not stand for anything and will not stand tall in the future.

Marian Wright Edelman