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I would rather belong to a poor nation that was free than to a rich nation that had ceased to be in love with liberty.
– Woodrow Wilson (28th U.S. President)

The spirit of man is more important than mere physical strength, and the spiritual fiber of a nation than its wealth.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower

The nation that destroys its soil destroys itself.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt

Those newspapers of the nation which most loudly cried dictatorship against me would have been the first to justify the beginnings of dictatorship by somebody else.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt

Herb is the healing of a nation, alcohol is the destruction.
- Bob Marley

A nation or civilization that continues to produce soft-minded men purchases its own spiritual death on the installment plan.
- Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual doom.
- Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.
- Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

The greatness of a nation can be judged by the way its animals are treated.
- Mahatma Gandhi