Zhang Zhidong Quotes

Let there be no doubt: the state of our union is strong - stronger than the terrorists who seek to harm us and stronger than the challenges that confront us. At the same time, we know that our union can be stronger still.

We've got to unite our country again, because we're stronger when we are united and we are weaker when we are divided.

We need to rekindle those values, those strengths as a nation and as a people... And we must do so as one people with one goal.

A nation of citizens who will not panic. That’s what the terrorists fear.

The first and most important advice that I can give to my successors and people to make Afghanistan into a great kingdom is to impress upon their minds the value of unity; unity, and unity alone, can make it into a great power.

Our country must be strong enough to solve problems, and that means we must learn how to work together again.

Our country has often stood like a solid rock in the face of common danger, and there is a deep underlying unity which runs like a golden thread through all our seeming diversity.

We are united in that we want what's best for our country and our children.

We have to truly become a united people of the United States of America, and divisiveness cannot make that happen.

We are an American family and we rise and fall together as one nation.

The States separately have very inadequate ideas of the present danger. Party disputes and personal quarrels are the great business of the day, whilst the concerns of the nation are secondary.

Every nation needs two wings to fly. Any bird torn at the wings will never soar the skies.

Soldiers join the military to serve their country, but when bullets are flying, it's hard to fight for an abstract notion like patriotism. They're fighting for the people standing next to them, and it doesn't matter who's a Republican or a Democrat, or who's black or white or Christian or Muslim or gay or straight. If Congress and all Americans could manage to ignore those differences, we would have a perfect country, but somehow we cannot rise to that level of nobility.

Peace is a national issue, not only government's responsibility.

President Lincoln called upon Americans to speak with one voice and one heart. That's just what we have to do.

We all need to rededicate ourselves to making America great and making it a more perfect union.

Is there anything worse for a state than to be split and disunited? or anything better than cohesion and unity?

Swaraj means ability to regard every inhabitant of India as our own brother or sister.

When human beings meet together seeking the spirit with unity of purpose then they will also find their way to each other.

It's not whether people like you but whether they share the bright dreams...and understand the heartbeat of the country.

America is a miracle country. And we have to restore the sense that the Amiracle (ph) will apply to you. Each and every one of the people in this country who's watching tonight, lift everybody, unite everybody and build a stronger United States of America again. It will be and can be done.

We must earn the peace we seek just as we earned victory in the war, not by wishful thinking but by realistic effort. At no time in our history has unity among our people been so vital as it is at the present time. Unity of purpose, unity of effort, and unity of spirit are essential to accomplish the task before us.

We must become the United States of America that represents every community, that represents every individual. And we will ultimately become a stronger nation, but right now we are a divided nation.

If two or three agree on a common purpose, nothing is impossible.

The United States, we know what happens when we start dividing ourselves along lines of race or religion or ethnicity.