Frederick Douglass Quotes

Nobody can look back into our history and look at everyone who contributed into our development as a country and find someone who's flawless.

Often, we have only focused on what we've done wrong as a nation. Of course we should face our sins and our mistakes. But if we get stuck there and don't focus on where we've come from and how we've overcome those sins and mistakes, we are truly to be pitied.

Great countries are those that produce great people.

I am one year older than Nigeria at 51. In a human life, 51 might be old. But it is very young for a nation. By that, I mean a Nigeria conscious of itself as a nation.

A great nation does not hide its history. It faces its flaws and corrects them.

Our inexorable destiny is to be a great nation.

In order to build our nation, we must all exceed our own expectations.

The honor of a country depends much more on removing its faults than on boasting of its qualities.

The future of Canada, I believe, depends very largely upon the cultivation of a national spirit

A nation is a work of art and a work of time.

A great silence has fallen upon the real soul of this nation.

Other nations boast of what they are or have been, but the true citizen of the United States exalts his head to the skies in the contemplation of what the grandeur of his country is going to be.

No choice we can make as a nation lies between our history and our geography. We can hardly change either of them. They are immutable. The only choice we can make as a nation is the choice about our future.

The true test of civilization is, not the census, nor the size of cities, nor the crops,—no, but the kind of man the country turns out.

Each nation grows after its own genius, and has a civilization of its own.

I'm always writing and reflecting on life. I want to suck it all in.

A national festival is an occasion to refine and rebuild the national character.

Anyone who assumes that this country is standing still is not a good American, or rather, he is an apathetic and dead one and makes no contribution to the society.

I got the best of Rod. And I am fully aware that, even though I love listening to his stories of the crazy days, no relationship could really last then. I sometimes wish I could go back in time to the 1970s or 1980s, sit at a bar, and observe him, but I'm glad our time came when it did.

Unless we know where we've been as a country, we don't know where we are or where we are going.

As Americans, it is always important to remember where we once were and how far we have come.

Thankfully, Australia has emerged from its inauspicious colonial beginnings to become a proud nation, a nation that overcame those primeval prejudices.

Remember, our focus should remain on development because it is development alone that can transform this nation as well as the lives of its people.

I truly believe we can be the greatest nation on Earth.

Each citizen of India is a nation builder.