Every major question in history is a religious question. It has more effect in molding life than nationalism or a common language.
It took the first 204 years of our Nation's history to accumulate $1 trillion in debt. And now we are doing that every 2 or 3 years.
Throwing off despotism and tyranny is our history and part of our national identity - something in which we can take incredible pride.
The UK is not going to leave the European Union. Of course not. We are inextricably wound up with Europe. In terms of culture, history and geography, we are a European nation.
Permanent superiority has never been realized by any nation in history. After the rise comes the fall.
A generation without history is a generation that not only loses a nation's memory but loses a sense of what it's like to be inside a human skin.
Many a revolution started with the actions of a few. Only 56 men signed the Declaration of Independence. A few hanging together can lead a nation to change.
Family trips to Yellowstone and to what are now national parks in Southern Utah, driving the primitive roads and cars of that day, were real adventures.
My organization, National Action Network (NAN), was on the ground talking and meeting with people in Ferguson, just as we did in Staten Island following Eric Garner's death.
Australia as a nation, as a set of cities and some regional centres, that project died a death and we didn't get it up, but I still think there's merit in that.
A liberal education... frees a man from the prison-house of his class, race, time, place, background, family and even his nation.
By adopting the control strategy, the nation's environmental program has created a built-in antagonism between environmental quality and economic growth.
I think the environment should be put in the category of our national security. Defense of our resources is just as important as defense abroad. Otherwise what is there to defend?
It is crucial that members of Congress cast votes that are supportive of the values upon which our nation was founded: equality, freedom, and opportunity for all people.
Free trade is very important if we respect equality among nations.
I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.
America is not a wily, sneaky nation. We don't think that way. We don't think much at all, thank God.
The god can no more exist without his people than the nation without its god.
As I review the great history of our nation, community organizers have been at the center of so many of our great social movements.
Publicity is a great purifier because it sets in action the forces of public opinion, and in this country public opinion controls the courses of the nation.
Regardless of the nature of their crime or any rehabilitation that may have occurred, these ex-felons cannot participate in the decision-making process of this great Nation.
