Zakir Hussain (politician) (1897–1969) 3rd President of India
Source: Philosophy of Education, p. 86.
“The life of the arts, far from being an interruption, a distraction, in the life of a nation, is very close to the center of a nation's purpose…and is a test of the quality of a nation's civilization.”
"LOOK Magazine Article 'The Arts in America' (552)" (18 December 1962) http://www.jfklibrary.org/Research/Research-Aids/Ready-Reference/JFK-Quotations.aspx; also inscribed at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Washington, D.C. <br class="br">1962
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“The life of the nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous.”
Frederick Douglass (1818–1895) American social reformer, orator, writer and statesman
Speech on the twenty-third anniversary of Emancipation in the District of Columbia, Washington, D.C. (April 1885).
1880s
Variant: The life of the nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous.
Roger Williams (theologian) (1603–1684) English Protestant theologian and founder of the colony of Providence Plantation
The Hireling Ministry, None of Christ's (1652)
Context: The civil state of the nations, being merely and essentially civil, cannot (Christianly) be called "Christian states," after the pattern of that holy and typical land of Canaan, which I have proved at large in the Bloudy Tenent to be a nonesuch and an unparalleled figure of the spiritual state of the church of Christ Jesus, dispersed yet gathered to Him in all nations.
The civil sword (therefore) cannot (rightfully) act either in restraining the souls of the people from worship, etc., or in constraining them to worship, considering that there is not a tittle in the New Testament of Christ Jesus that commits the forming or reforming of His spouse and church to the civil and worldly powers...
“A nation of deities with the Emperor at its center.”
Yoshirō Mori (1937) 86th Prime Minister of Japan
As quoted in "Japanese PM sparks holy row" http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/750180.stm (16 May 2000), BBC News, United Kingdom: British Broadcasting Corporation.