Edmund Barton Quotes

Every nation has a vision it lives for and is prepared to make all sacrifices. One may call it National purpose, … It is something which does not change. If it changes, a nation dies. It is supreme and therefore the nation acts and reacts with the limits laid down by it. It is the vision which allows a nation to build its future.

It is a hard and difficult thing to do to create a nation

It is nationalism which engenders nations, and not the other way round.

After centuries the time has come when India has gained independence from foreign rule and it's the time when we all [the Independent Princely States) should unite for our motherland""

Each nation has to find its own path and follow that path at its own speed.

The country is the people.

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

Our nation has a message. That is why it can never be an average nation. Throughout history our nation has either soared to the heights or fallen into the abyss through the envy, conspiracy and enmity of others.

For all the great purposes for which the Federal government was established, we are one people, with one common country, we are all citizens of the United States.

A country, after all, is not something you build as the pharaohs built the pyramids, and then leave standing there to defy eternity. A country is something that is built every day out of certain basic shared values.

No nation is formed within a night, one generation's era of even two. A nation can be described as the continuous string of many generations that time, this pitiless, thoughtless sword of nature, separates their physical connections along the course of their history.

A government, to afford the needful protection and exercise proper care for the welfare of a people, must have homogeneity in its constituents. It is this necessity which has divided the human race into separate nations, and finally has defeated the grandest efforts which conquerors have made to give unlimited extent to their domain.

Building a state and fostering a national identity take time and good leadership—bold ideas, initiative, and the willingness to compromise.

There is no power on earth that can undo Pakistan

Let the world be grafted onto our republics, but the trunk must be our own.

Every nation has a home. The sentiment of nationality cannot gather simply round an idea or a memory or a program or about some function or status, such as a priesthood or an aristocracy or a Legion of Janissaries.

...The right to self-determination refers to the right of a given population (usually a nation) to create its own future more or less free from external coercion, but within the limits of the historical realities with which it is faced.

No, I don't think I've ever really favoured English independence. My view is that if the Scots want to be independent then we should aim for the same thing.

Continent-wide nations require continent-wide leaders whenever they are in crisis. The 'idea of Europe,' much like the 'idea of India' was the construction of such continental leaders.

As a nation, I believe we've acquired faith in ourselves.

A nation is the sum of its memories, and when those memories are allowed to die, it is less of a nation.

America, my country, is almost a continent and hardly yet a nation.

Nations which don't find their national identities will be preyed upon by other nations.

A nation devoid of art and artists cannot have a full existence.

I will work every single day to make sure that America continues to be the greatest nation on earth.