top of page
Exlpore more Nation quotes

"Hungary is very similar to Bulgaria. I know they're different countries."

"Nitrogen fertilizer is used on all crops produced in this country, but it is a key plant nutrient to produce corn a critical crop to Illinois farmers."

"There's no bigger task than protecting the homeland of our country."

"Do we want in this nation to lose the backbone of manufacturing in this country? Do we want to be a nation that doesn't want to manufacture anything?"

"I realized that in those nine seasons I started out at about 225 pounds and I felt, you know, full figured fabulous woman but in those seasons I gained 75 pounds up to over 300 pounds all in front of the nation."

"The principal or highest part of the mountain having changed its direction to east and west, I ascended it in such manner as to leave its most elevated ranges to the south and travelled north west over a very rough and broken country generally covered with snow."

"We operate under a jury system in this country, and as much as we complain about it, we have to admit that we know of no better system, except possibly flipping a coin."

"I'd come back after having served as ambassador to New Zealand and found that I had real concerns about the direction in which this country was headed."

"I was born in 1940 in Minnesota and grew up in the country... dirt roads, swamps, lakes, woods."
Explore more quotes by William Godwin


"The great model of the affection of love in human beings is the sentiment which subsists between parents and children."


"In cases where every thing is understood, and measured, and reduced to rule, love is out of the question."


"Make men wise, and by that very operation you make them free. Civil liberty follows as a consequence of this; no usurped power can stand against the artillery of opinion."


"The execution of any thing considerable implies in the first place previous persevering meditation."


"The proper method for hastening the decay of error is by teaching every man to think for himself."


"Revolution is engendered by an indignation with tyranny, yet is itself pregnant with tyranny."


"Above all we should not forget that government is an evil, a usurpation upon the private judgement and individual conscience of mankind."


"Learning is the ally, not the adversary of genius... he who reads in a proper spirit, can scarcely read too much."
bottom of page