It's true that in Canada, we pride ourselves on the game, and we like to think we're the dominant hockey nation in the world.
The United States has grown into a remarkable nation specifically because of our independent spirit and free market.
The essence of the conservative message should be we want a dynamic nation where anybody with nothing can achieve anything.
Of the 22 industrialized nations of the world, we're dead last in per capita giving to poor people.
The political currents that topped the global agenda in the late 20th century - revolutionary nationalism, feminism and ethnic struggle - place culture at their heart.
None but an armed nation can dispense with a standing army. To keep ours armed and disciplined is therefore at all times important.
In a republican nation, whose citizens are to be led by reason and persuasion and not by force, the art of reasoning becomes of first importance
Our freedom of mobility has helped keep this nation free. We are eagles, not herds of cattle. Eagles are much harder to corral with fences.
Votes in federal elections are cast and counted in a highly decentralized and variable fashion, with no uniform ballots and few national standards.
The dependence of one people upon another, even for the benefits of legislation, is the deepest source of national weakness.
The rising cost of prescription drugs has sparked a prairie fire that is spreading across our nation.
That there are men in all countries who get their living by war, and by keeping up the quarrels of Nations is as shocking as it is true...
In its haste to bolster nationalism, in its obsession with security, Europe is losing its soul.
I wouldn't even get elected. I'd probably deck a couple of people, too which would not play very well with the national media.
Human dignity is independent of national borders. We must always defend the interests of the poor and the persecuted in other countries.
We need to rekindle those values, those strengths as a nation and as a people... And we must do so as one people with one goal.
I simply cannot see how denying chemotherapy treatment for Palestinian children increases Israel's security or advances U.S. national interests.
Even though the National Guard and Army Reserve see combat today, it rankles me that people assume it was some kind of waltz in the park back then.
I was born in Toronto and studied with the National Ballet of Canada. I went to school to study dance, slept on the floor, ate nothing, waitressed - and then there was a Mary J. Blige audition.
'Contagion' should serve as a wake-up call not only about the germs, but perhaps more importantly about the frailty of governance, nationally and worldwide.
The fey in this country keep to themselves, and are a separate nation, much like the American Indians, but with even more autonomy.
