Must Be The Money

“Give me control of a nation's money and I care not who makes the laws.”
--Mayer Amschel Rothschild

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An Evil Man

“An evil man will burn his own nation to the ground to rule over the ashes.”
--Unknown (misattributed to Sun Tzu)

Personified Nation

“The nation, like the State, is a personified concept. The nation has no life of its own apart from the individual, and is therefore not an end in itself. All life is individual life, in which alone the ultimate meaning is to be found.”
--Carl Jung

Success of Liberty

“Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty.”
--John F. Kennedy

Political Freedom

“There is no political freedom that is not indissolubly bound to the inner personal freedom of the individuals who make up that nation: no liberty of a nation of conformists, no free nation made up of robots.”
--Rollo May

National Literature

“If a nation's literature declines, the nation atrophies and decays.”
--Ezra Pound

No, You Move

“Doesn't matter what the press says. Doesn't matter what the politicians or the mobs say. Doesn't matter if the whole country decides that something wrong is something right. This nation was founded on one principle above all else: The requirement that we stand up for what we believe, no matter the odds or the consequences. When the mob and the press and the whole world tell you to move, your job is to plant yourself like a tree beside the river of truth, and tell the whole world – ‘No, you move.’”
-- J. Michael Straczynski

No Tax For Prosperity

“I contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle.”
--Winston Churchill

Kill a Tyrant

“The right of a nation to kill a tyrant in case of necessity can no more be doubted than to hang a robber, or kill a flea.”
--John Adams

National Survival

“A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within.”
--Marcus Tullius Cicero

Cannot Stand

“If a nation's spiritual energies have been exhausted, it will not be saved from collapse by the most perfect government structure or by any industrial development. A tree with a rotten core cannot stand.”
--Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Prefer Disgrace

“A nation which can prefer disgrace to danger is prepared for a master, and deserves one.”
--Alexander Hamilton

National Strength

“The strength of a nation derives from the integrity of the home.”
--Confucius

Failed Nation

“Any nation that does not emphasize integrity will always fail.”
--Yemi Osinbajo

Overthrow a Nation

“Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freeness of speech.”
--Benjamin Franklin

Mass Intelligence

“Even if a government were superior in intelligence or knowledge to any single individual in the nation, it must be inferior to all the individuals of the nation taken together.”
--John Stewart Mill

How Freemen Live

“If danger ever reaches us, it must spring up amongst us. It cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide.”
--Abraham Lincoln

A Nation Afraid

“A nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.“
--John F. Kennedy

Nation of Sheep

“A nation of sheep will beget a government of wolves.”
--Edward R. Murrow

Make It Right

“To put the world in order, we must first put the nation in order; to put the nation in order, we must put the family in order; to put the family in order, we must cultivate our personal life; and to cultivate our personal life, we must first set our hearts right.”
--Confucius