Quotes of: National-defense Keyword

We are at crisis point. I think anybody that sees this nation as being on stable economic or fiscal ground is fooling themselves.

Joe Miller

I think it's extremely unlikely that the European Union will fracture with nations dropping off the edge.

John Major

We are the nation of human progress, and who will, what can, set limits to our onward march?

John L. O'Sullivan

Most nations, as well as people are impossible only in their youth; they become incorrigible as they grow older.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Greed can't again lead the way. We've taken that route before with terrible consequences for this nation and its people.

Johanna Siguroardottir

As the 109th Congress continues to debate legislation that will affect the lives of immigrants, it is important for us to remember that we are a nation of immigrants.

Jose Serrano

The media does play a vital role in our democracy, and if we cannot depend on journalistic ethics, the nation's in trouble.

Dave Brat

Iraq does not pose an imminent threat to the United States of any of its neighboring nations.

Dennis Kucinich

Today different ethnic groups and different nations come together due to common sense.

Dalai Lama

There's a lot of America that's Christian. I would not describe us, though, on the whole, as a Christian nation.

John Edwards

Patents have long served as a fundamental cog in the American machine, cherished in our national soul.

James Gleick

A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on. Ideas have endurance without death.

John F. Kennedy

With the help of dedicated Americans from our party, every party, and no party at all, I intend to mount that stairway to preach peace for our nation and world.

Theodore C. Sorensen

After that his Majesty was beheaded, the Parliament for some years effected nothing either for the publick peace or tranquillity of the nation, or settling religion as they had formerly promised.

William Lilly

My books are elegiac in the sense that they're odes to a nation that even I sometimes think may not exist anymore except in my memory and my imagination.

Richard Russo

Here we encounter two conflicting concepts with which we must come to grips in our time: the idea of national solidarity and the idea of international cooperation.

Gustav Stresemann

Many now born, by the time they are voters will compose part of a nation with a genius nowhere equaled, and with a vast territory upon which those energies and that genius can operate.

Richard Parks Bland

For a nation which has an almost evil reputation for bustle, bustle, bustle, and rush, rush, rush, we spend an enormous amount of time standing around in line in front of windows, just waiting.

Robert Benchley

The American people have every right to be outraged with the administration's approval of the UAE port deal. It is time the people's House make the security of our Nation's ports a priority.

Russ Carnahan

What Clinton did with Lewinsky was despicable but was no threat to the nation. That he lied about it repeatedly and to the public is a reason for us to cease to trust him and for him to resign.

Donella Meadows

Major Strasser: What is your nationality? Rick: I'm a drunkard. Captain Renault: That makes Rick a citizen of the world. [all laugh]

Casablanca