If we go back in the history of different nations, violence and the use of force are part of their heritage. These are the traditions of mankind.
If some peoples pretend that history or geography gives them the right to subjugate other races, nations, or peoples, there can be no peace.
I have a high regard for Native languages and the pivotal role they have played in our nation's history.
What we call National-Socialism is the poisonous perversion of ideas which have a long history in German intellectual life.
If you want to study the social and political history of modern nations, study hell.
Bankruptcy is about financial death and financial rebirth. Bankruptcy is the great American story rewritten. We're a nation of debtors.
Israel desperately needs peace if it is to come anywhere close to being the 'light unto nations' of Jewish dreams.
Designs in connection with postage stamps and coinage may be described, I think, as the silent ambassadors on national taste.
Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education. The human mind is our fundamental resource.
Mr. Obama seeks to federalize large portions of education, beginning with his attempt to nationalize college student loans.
Few things are more important to each individual's future success or to our nation's prosperity than education.
Yugoslavia is a multinational community and it can survive only under the conditions of full equality for all nations that live in it.
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.
I wish we could get a national buddy network going. It would be a great thing for the American people.
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.
The great armies, accumulated to provide security and preserve the peace, carried the nations to war by their own weight.
Our shared conservative values, our belief in the individual is the great hope of our nation.
A good nationalism has to depend on a principle of the common people, on myths of a struggling commonality.
A good government remains the greatest of human blessings and no nation has ever enjoyed it.
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.
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.
