Ross Douthat Quotes

As an American, I want to see our nation recapture the strength and unity it once had when we fought the enemy instead of ourselves.

Our strength as a nation comes in our unity. We are the United States of America, not the divided states. And those who want to divide us are trying to divide us, and we shouldn't let them do it.

The country is the people.

A great aggregation of men, sane of mind and warm of heart, creates a moral consciousness which is called a nation

Americans divide most sharply over what brings them together.

The national team has always lent its image to help Italy's problems over the years... The national team is more about uniting than dividing.

I believe we can seize this future together, because we are not as divided as our politics suggests. [...] We are greater than the sum of our individual ambitions. [...] We are and forever will be the United States of America. [...] We will continue our journey forward and remind the world just why it is that we live in the greatest nation on Earth.

We all need to rededicate ourselves to making America great and making it a more perfect union.

Together, we will have one great American future. Our potential is unlimited. We will be one people, under one God, saluting one American flag.

I hope America manages to steer itself away from partisanship and back to patriotism; we are all Americans. And as long as I can make people laugh and feel better, I'm happy.

We are Americans first, Americans last, Americans always... Let us argue our differences. But remember we are not enemies, but comrades in a war against a real enemy...

That's why I believe that we must never fail to affirm that we are indeed one nation under God.

The vision of a nation formed from many different peoples bound together by a common love of freedom was staked out long before our lifetimes or even our parents' or grandparents' lifetimes.

The nation... doesn't simply need what we have. It needs what we are.

In Washington, the translation of E Pluribus Unum has been lost. The belief that we are one nation - united in purpose - caring about and for one another is no longer the practice.

There is hopeful symbolism in the fact that flags do not wave in a vacuum.

Our national purpose, not our party differences, must define the American Brand. We must change the conversation from one centered around what defines our differences to one that hangs a lantern on what binds us, supports our collective well being and makes us all stronger and more productive as a result.

No one can undermine national unity.

There now exists a factor which was formerly lacking - the spirit of the nation has been aroused, and a common misfortune, a common debasement, has united all the inhabitants of the Islands.

The history of American patriotism is figuring out ways that we can work together to move forward and knit together the common government.

We need to rekindle those values, those strengths as a nation and as a people... And we must do so as one people with one goal.

Nations consist of people. And with their effort, a nation can accomplish all it could ever want.

A nation is a totality of men united through community of fate into a community of character.

I believe in the stability of my country. I believe in unity.

Canadians have this weird way about them where we really stick together.