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A national debt, if it is not excessive, will be to us a national blessing.
A national debt, if it is not excessive, will be to us a national blessing.
By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation.
By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation.
No one can terrorize a whole nation, unless we are all his accomplices.
No one can terrorize a whole nation, unless we are all his accomplices.
You can tell the ideals of a nation by its advertisements.
You can tell the ideals of a nation by its advertisements.
No matter how big a nation is, it is no stronger that its weakest people, and as long as you read more
No matter how big a nation is, it is no stronger that its weakest people, and as long as you keep a person down, some part of you has to be down there to hold him down, so it means you cannot soar as you might otherwise
A nation's life is about as long as its reverential memory
A nation's life is about as long as its reverential memory
No man is an island entire of itself; every man is a part of a continent, a part of the read more
No man is an island entire of itself; every man is a part of a continent, a part of the main; if a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy friends or of thine own were . . .
The nation will find it very hard to look up to the leaders who are keeping their ears to the read more
The nation will find it very hard to look up to the leaders who are keeping their ears to the ground
The greatness of a nation can be judged by the way its animals are treated.
The greatness of a nation can be judged by the way its animals are treated.