Now, as a nation, we don't promise equal outcomes, but we were founded on the idea everybody should have an equal opportunity to succeed. No matter who you are, what you look like, where you come from, you can make it. That's an essential promise of America. Where you start should not determine where you end up.
My fellow Americans, we are and always will be a nation of immigrants. We were strangers once, too.
It is the awareness of unfulfilled desires which gives a nation the feeling that it has a mission and a destiny.
“A nation which thinks that it is belief in God and not good law which makes people honest does not seem to me very advanced.”
When a nation is over-reliant on one or two commodities like oil or precious minerals, corrupt government ministers and their dodgy associates hoard profits and taxes instead of properly allocating them to schools and hospitals.
If they want peace, nations should avoid the pin-pricks that precede cannon shots.
These fallen heroes represent the character of a nation who has a long history of patriotism and honor - and a nation who has fought many battles to keep our country free from threats of terror.
We do not covet anything from any nation except their respect.
Once fully enslaved, no nation, state, city of this earth, ever afterward resumes its liberty.
The life of the arts is a test of the quality of a nation's civilization.
The life of the nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous.
A nation's culture resides in the hearts and in the soul of its people.
The strength of a nation derives from the integrity of the home.