National Suffering Quotes

Our nation suffers when Congress fails to pay America's bills on time.

All of the Nations have suffered alike in this great depression. They have all reached the conclusion that each can best be helped by the common action of all.

Scotland has long groaned under the chains of England and knows that its connection there has been the source of its greatest misfortunes …. We bartered our liberty, and with it our morals, for a little wealth.

The long historian of my country's woes.

I consider even a victorious war as an evil, from which statesmanship must endeavor to spare nations.

There are horrible periods in which entire nations sink into the plague of darkness and hatred.

I am troubled... that someone would sell a book, trading on their former service as a government insider with access to our nation's most valuable intelligence, in order to profit from the suffering that this nation endured on September 11, 2001.

We demand that people don't deny the Holocaust, and we can't ignore the tragedy of another nation.

I have no doubt that the nation has suffered more from undue secrecy than from undue disclosure. The government takes good care of itself.

It would be stupid tameness, and unaccountable folly, for whole nations to suffer one unreasonable, ambitious and cruel man, to wanton and riot in their misery.

We must make democracy the popular creed...If we should fail to do this, our people are bound to suffer... That is what my father said. It is the reason why I am participating in this struggle.

When shall we see poets born? After a time of disasters and great misfortunes, when harrowed nations begin to breathe again. And then, shaken by the terror of such spectacles, imaginations will paint things entirely strange to those who have not witnessed them.

We have arrived at that point of time in which we are forced to see our own humiliation, as a nation, and that a progression in this line cannot be a productive of happiness, private or public.

The cup of Ireland's misery has been overflowing for centuries and is not yet half full.

Spaniards, after a long agony your nation is perishing. I have seen your ills and I shall remedy them.

If we go back to the heyday of that era I think we will see replicated again the extraordinary human damage that we as a nation have suffered from.

But woe awaits a country when She sees the tears of bearded men.

I am an opponent of the Bolsheviks. I consider them enemies of my country. I know that they will bring the greatest suffering upon the people .... But if I were asked whether I regretted the revolution, I would say, no. And whatever my personal fate - if I were asked whether I'd live through the revolution again, I would say, yes.

Greed can't again lead the way. We've taken that route before with terrible consequences for this nation and its people.