National

Famous quotes containing the word national:

“The national anthem belongs to the eighteenth century. In it you find us ordering God about to do our political dirty work.”
—George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)

“A good man will not engage even in a national cause, without examining the justice of it.”
—Samuel Richardson (1689–1761)

“Nothing is so well calculated to produce a death-like torpor in the country as an extended system of taxation and a great national debt.”
—William Cobbett (1762–1835)