National Quotes

The Black skin is not a badge of shame, but rather a glorious symbol of national greatness.

I said I'll do every thing in order to uphold our national interest.

Gross National Product measures neither the health of our children, the quality of their education, nor the joy of their play. It measures neither the beauty of our poetry, nor the strength of our marriages. It is indifferent to the decency of our factories and the safety of our streets alike. It measures neither our wisdom nor our learning, neither our wit nor our courage, neither our compassion nor our devotion to our country. It measures everything in short, except that which makes life worth living. It can tell us everything about our country, except those things that make us proud to be a part of it.

Bullying is a national problem. Middle school seems to be the time that bullying (by males) and relational aggression (by females) is at its worst and is most painful for kids. While there are programs to help curb bullying, we're hoping to help teachers build character in fourth and fifth grade students to prevent bullying in middle school.

As our student leaders, Greek members, alumni, national representatives, staff and University leaders work collaboratively for the betterment of the Greek experience at Penn State, these chapters help us to focus on what we look like when we are at our best. Rather than focus solely on what is wrong, we are trying to help identify and reward those things that our chapters do well and help them to reach their full potential.

I've had two dreams since I was 5 years old. The first dream was to play on a national team, and the other dream was to play in North America, because that's where the best hockey in the world is played.

The national policy on faith schools is that, whenever there is a demand from a faith community, there should be a school. Ergo, there should be a Muslim school here.

It addresses our national concern about child sex abuse and getting tough on child sex abusers.

Arrogant powers are intended to make local and national economy of other states bankrupt to make more benefits from establishment of a big market.

At the desk where I sit, I have learned one great truth. The answer for all our national problems - the answer for all the problems of the world - come to a single word. That word is education.

April is National Kite Month, and we as advocates can think of no better symbol than that of a kite to represent Independent Living for persons with disabilities.

The American Indian was an individualist in religion as in war. He had neither a national army nor an organized church.

It's quite an honor. I feel humbled to be national junior college coach of the year, but I'm sure there are quite a few people who deserve it more than me.

I love the national anthem. I'm a veteran, and it just has a special meaning.

In times of great national struggle, the American Spirit brings us all together, and as a result we will be stronger and even more committed to the principles of liberty and justice for which we stand.

[Y]our national greatness, swelling vanity; your denunciation of tyrants, brass-fronted impudence; your shouts of liberty and equality, hollow mockery; your prayers and hymns, your sermons and thanksgivings, with all your religious parade and solemnity, are, to Him, mere bombast, fraud, deception, impiety, and hypocrisy -- a thin veil to cover up crimes which would disgrace a nation of savages.

In most of the European countries - France stands out in its resistance to this particular form of American cultural imperialism - the national film industries were forced onto the defensive after the war by such binding agreements.

The more worrying feature of the new global corporate structures is their capacity to devastate national labour markets by transferring their operations to cheaper locations overseas.

Soon I worked during twelve years in theater works of the prestigious Theatre National Populaire. It was the best time of my life, the most difficult, the most interesting, the most exciting.

War is a blessing compared with national degradation.

To lead a country, you must periodically hold a national consultation in which people representing different programmes can make a bid for power.

Let us not suffer from a national amnesia that causes us to forget who and what we are.

A healthy and fully functioning society must allocate its resources among a variety of competing interests, all of which are more or less valid but none of which should take precedence over national security.

Because of new technologies, new wealth, new conditions of domestic life and of international relations, unprecedented criteria and issues are coming up for national decision.

I have no spy stories to tell, because I saw no spies. Nor did I understand, at that time, any opposition between American and Russian national interest.