NATION QUOTES

The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated.

The greatness of a nation can be judged by the way it's animals are treated. 

There is no national science, just as there is no national multiplication table; what is national is no longer science.

The nation which forgets it defenders will be itself forgotten

We are, in some sense, an immigrant nation, molded in the fires of a common experience.

This nation (Italy) is so friendly that the leading cause of injury is getting passionately embraced by strangers.

A whole goddamned nation of assholes driving automobiles, eating, having babies, doing everything in the worst way possible, like voting for the presidential candidate who reminded them most of themselves. 

I would say that Mickey Mouse had a greater influence on the American public than Shakespeare, Milton, Dante, Rabelais, Shostakovich, Lenin, and/or Van Gogh. Which says ‘What?’ about the American public. Disneyland remains the central attraction of Southe

Caution and conservatism are expected of old age; but when the young men of a nation are possessed of such a spirit, when they are afraid of the noise and strife caused by the new applications of the truth, Heaven save the land! Its funeral bell has already rung.

When a nation’s young men are conservative, its funeral bell is already rung.