A nation reveals itself not only by the men it produces but also by the men it honors, the men it remembers.

A nation can be no stronger abroad than she is at home. Only an America which practices what it preaches about equal rights and social justice will be respected by those whose choice affects our future.

We must recognize that every nation determines its policies in terms of its own interests.

A nation may be said to consist of its territory, its people, and its laws. The territory is the only part which is of certain durability

It is in times of difficulty that great nations, like great men, display the whole energy of their character and become an object of admiration to posterity.

A nation usually renews its youth on a political sick-bed, and there finds again the spirit which it had gradually lost in seeking and maintaining power.

Nations, like individuals, have to limit their objectives, or take the consequences.

The driving force of a nation lies in its spiritual purpose, made effective by free, tolerant but unremitting national will.

Every nation thinks its own madness normal and requisite; more passion and more fancy it calls folly, less it calls imbecility.

For total greed, rapacity, heartlessness, and irresponsibility there is nothing to match a nation.