Josiah Gilbert Holland Quotes

The strength of a nation derives from the integrity of the home.

America cannot continue to lead the family of nations around the world if we suffer the collapse of the family here at home.

The strength and power and goodness of America has always been based on the strength and power and goodness of our communities, our families, our faiths. That is the bedrock of what makes America, America. In our best days, we can feel the vibrancy of America's communities, large and small.

I believe that the strength in America is individual families and communities.

You can't have a strong nation without strong values, and no one is born with strong values. They have to be taught to you in strong families and reinforced in you in strong communities.

The foundations of civilization are no stronger and no more enduring than the corporate integrity of the homes on which they rest. If the home deteriorates, civilization will crumble and fall.

The united, well-ordered American home is one of the greatest contributing factors to the preservation of the Constitution of the United States.

The family is a creation of God. The way to strengthen the nation is to strengthen the homes of the people.

I desire to call attention to the fact that the united, well ordered American home is one of the greatest contributing factors to the preservation of the Constitution of the United States. It has been aptly said that "Out of the homes of America will come the future citizens of America, and only as those homes are what they should be will this nation be what it should be."

A woman should be home with the children, building that home and making sure there's a secure family atmosphere.

A nation will rise no higher than the strength of its homes.

Whatever else may divide us, Europe is our common home; a common fate has linked us through the centuries, and it continues to link us today.

As the family goes, so goes the nation and so goes the whole world in which we live.

I realized then that the generations may change but the strength of our nation remains solid.

I wanted some family structure and stability, and that's what The Partridge Family afforded me, not only financially but in the fact that I could be at home with my kids.

The center of all my enjoyments is the home wherein are my wife and children, and I have no wish to wander out from that home in pursuit of any pleasures that the world presents.

The great American tradition is one of pluralism, not exclusive secularism. The strength of our country is reflected in the contributions that we all make to the common good.

Like any group that has endured much, African Americans have created a strong and mutually reinforcing sense of group identity. That's not a bad thing in and of itself.

The home is the foundation of sanity and sobriety; it is the indispensable condition of continuity; its health determines the health of society as a whole.

A nation divided against itself cannot stand.

Country is not a mere zone of territory. The true country is the idea to which it gives birth ... the sense of communion which united in one all the sons of that territory.

The motherland is the common mother, the unity within which isolated the individuals penetrate and become enmeshed. It is the holy name that expresses the voluntary fusion of all interests into one interest, of all lives into one lasting and perpetual life.

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

When we are faced with adversity, when we are tested on who we are and what we stand for, we always pull together. We stand strong for our values and our way of life. We always have, and I know we always will.

Americans have always prized individuality - it is part of our national DNA - but America is a community that draws strength from the sum of our people and has always known that the total of that sum is worth far more than its individual parts.