The first and most important component in nation building is LAW. Law is the source of national Cohesion.
To be the father of a nation is a great honor, but to be the father of a family is a greater joy.
He that by harshness of nature rules his family with an iron hand is as truly a tyrant as he who misgoverns a nation.
We are a nation of politicians, concerned about the outmost defenses only of freedom. It is our children's children who may perchance be really free.
War is no longer a series of battles, but a test of the strength of the entire nation, its moral strength as well as physical, brain as well as muscles, and stamina as well as courage.
It is for women to come forward and choose the path of sacrifice for serving the nation.
Once to every man and nation comes the moment to decide.
I know of no existing nation that deserves to live, and I know of very few individuals.
People in red states and blue states can agree that we are a nation blessed with extraordinary natural wealth and beauty, which we would be foolish to waste; therefore conservation and efficiency are values we all can share.
A great poet is the most precious jewel of a nation.
But inwardly we are as corrupt as the person who sits in an office and plans war-because, we want to be somebody in the family, in a group, in society, in the nation.
A nation riven by factions, in which the minority has no hope of ever becoming a majority, or in which some group knows it is perpetually outcast, will seem oppressive to its members, whatever the legal pretensions.
An absolute condition of all successful living, whether for an individual or a nation, is the acceptance of death.
Unless our conception of patriotism is progressive, it cannot hope to embody the real affection and the real interest of the nation.
It is not what we have that will make us a great nation; it is the way in which we use it.
A wise nation preserves its records, gathers up its muniments, decorates the tombes of its illustrious dead, repairs its greatest structures and fosters national pride and love of country, by perpetual references to the sacrifices and glories of the past.
Those who dare to interpret God's will must never claim Him as an asset for one nation or group rather than another.
I most sincerely wish that the world in which we live be free from the threat of a nuclear holocaust and from the ruinous arms race. It is my cherished desire that peace be not separated from freedom which is the right of every nation. This I desire and for this I pray.
But if you will recall the history of our civil troubles, you will see half the nation bathe itself, out of piety, in the blood of the other half, and violate the fundamental feelings of humanity in order to sustain the cause of God: as though it were necessary to cease to be a man in order to prove oneself religious!
In Asia, the nation state still is extremely vital, and of course, then in Africa, a whole new pattern is emerging because the states in Africa reflected the preferences of the colonial powers when they were established.