The past could liberate or imprison - it creates a nation's character, provides the nourishment or the poison a people imbibe in their very marrow.
A marvel that has nothing to offer, democracy is at once a nation's paradise and its tomb.
The 19th century was the century of empires, the 20th was the century of nation states, and the 21st is the century of cities and mayors.
The welfare of a nation can scarcely be inferred from a measurement of national income as defined by the GDP.
Taxpayers have put more than $24 trillion on the line to resuscitate Wall Street after the economic meltdown of last year. With the help of this massive taxpayer support, the nation's largest banks are posting record profits.
Every American should have a say in the memorials we choose to build in our nation. Family members have a special responsibility.
Rock n' roll unchained a nation and revolutionized radio and the record industry, not to mention the motion picture business.
We're quickly moving to the point where we will have no military bases in the Northeast, and this undermines support for the military. We are a nation of citizen soldiers.
Together, we will remain the most ready and capable military force in the world, which is what our nation expects and deserves.
North Carolina, particularly the 8th District, has long played a key role in our Nation's military forces.
A nation that mistreats its own citizens is more likely to mistreat its neighbours.
A nation's ability to fight a modern war is as good as its technological ability.
The requirement upon the sovereign to 'advise, encourage, and warn' means that the Queen must be well informed. The weekly audience with the Prime Minister is not to discuss the weather but to talk about the most pressing problems facing the nation. An ill-informed monarch cannot do that and would fail in a key constitutional task.
By the beginning of the 20th century, the debate about monetary policy and the nation's financial system had been going on for over a century. Increasingly, the shortcomings of the existing system were causing too much harm to ignore.
It is simply a moral obligation to make sure our nation's heroes have a home to return to at night.
Unfortunately our nation, nay, our world, is run by evil morons.
As the United States has become an older nation, reverse mortgages have grown into a $20-billion-a-year industry, with elderly homeowners taking out more than 132,000 such loans in 2007, an increase of more than 270 percent from two years earlier.
As a nation, we must unite in recognizing the mounting evidence that the U.S. is falling behind international competitors in producing students ready for 21st-century jobs.
Putting a man on the moon united our nation in victory and we've collectively mourned through tragedies such as Apollo 1, the Challenger and Columbia.
A great nation like the United States has many and varied interests, and we need both to do business with tyrants and to engage constantly in multilateral diplomacy.
