Michael Winter Quotes

We strain to tell Americans and aliens in this country that there's nothing unique about America, nothing unique about American civilization, nothing that requires their allegiance, nothing of great value that they should sacrifice for.

Great countries are those that produce great people.

The Iraqis have become invested in their nationhood.

I think I was always subconsciously driven by an attempt to restate that faith and to show where it was properly grounded, how it grew out of what a great many young men on both sides felt and believed and were brave enough to do.

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.

A very great Iliad... concerns the creation of a nation.

Here dead lie we because we did not choose to live and shame the land from which we sprung. Life, to be sure, is nothing much to lose; but young men think it is, and we were young.

We are Americans when we go to war, and when we return, we are Mexicans.

We, the people of the United States, we are a great Nation with a great vision.

Creating a nation requires the will of the people!

While shooting 'The Unit', I went to the Middle East twice to see the troops. I met some great men and women.

The decision to go to war is the most important decision that I can make as a representative in Congress. As a veteran, I see any potential military action first through the eyes of the young men and women who volunteered to wear the uniform and would carry out such a mission.

And so, whether they came here on the Mayflower, on a slave ship, or on an airplane from Havana, we are all descendants of the men and women who built here the nation that saved the world.

Well, we've faced very difficult decisions and challenges in our country, every one of us have, as we - since September 11th, as we fought the war on terror, all of those decisions that the President had to make to put young men and women in harm's way.

The men and women who lived through and came to our rescue on 9/11 were not Democrats or Republicans or Independents. They were Americans first and foremost, and so were the people they saved.

America's fighting men and women sacrifice much to ensure that our great nation stays free. We owe a debt of gratitude to the soldiers that have paid the ultimate price for this cause, as well as for those who are blessed enough to return from the battlefield unscathed.

China no longer has an ideology that makes any sense to them, but what they do have is great pride in the Chinese nation.

Sending our young men and women into battle is perhaps the most serious course of action a Nation can undertake.

Americans' great and secret fear is that America may turn out to be a phenomenon rather than a civilization.

Great tragedy has come to us, and we are meeting it with the best that is in our country, with courage and concern for others because this is America. This is who we are.

Our officers and men behaved like men who are determined to be free.

Obama likes to quote great men but will never be a great man himself. I can't stand it when our leader goes around apologizing for who we are.

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""

A nation creates itself not just with what it remembers, but with what it forgets.

Every man among you is a free will volunteer. Not one has been invited. No more typical are made of free man who ever marched to meet an enemy.