Great countries are those that produce great people.
A good government may, indeed, redress the grievances of an injured people; but a strong people can alone build up a great nation.
No nation can be really great unless it is great in peace, in industry, integrity, honesty. Skilled intelligence in civic affairs and industrial enterprises alike; the special ability of the artist, the man of letters, the man of science, and the man of business; the rigid determination to wrong no man, and to stand for righteousness-all these are necessary in a great nation.
Ultimately a great nation is a compassionate nation.
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.
It is not what we have that will make us a great nation; it is the way in which we use it.
A great nation is like a great man:When he makes a mistake, he realizes it.Having realized it, he admits it.Having admitted it, he corrects it.He considers those who point out his faultsas his most benevolent teachers.He thinks of his enemyas the shadow that he himself casts.
Great nations write their autobiographies in three manuscripts - the book of their deeds, the book of their words and the book of their art.
It is in times of difficulty that great nations like great men display the whole energy of their character and become an object of admiration to posterity.
Power without a nation's confidence is nothing.
You know, this country today, it seems to me - it's about fear. And it shouldn't be about fear. It should be about hope and optimism and creativity and accepting a challenge and being a moral leader and being a great nation.
In a great nation, the majority are incapable of judging wisely of things.
To keep any great nation up to a high standard of civilization there must be enough superior characters to hold the balance of power, but the very moment the balance of power gets into the hands of second-rate men and women, a decline of that nation is inevitable.
If we fail to solve this moral and spiritual crisis we may be doomed like the great nations of the past.
We are a great nation because we are a good people.
India is, the cradle of the human race, the birthplace of human speech, the mother of history, the grandmother of legend, and the great grand mother of tradition. our most valuable and most instructive materials in the history of man are treasured up in India only.
The great nations have always acted like gangsters, and the small nations like prostitutes.
The United Nations is our one great hope for a peaceful and free world.
Great nations do not succumb through lost wars, but rather through racial decay and the destruction of their internal order.
Nations, great nations have limitations. All nations have limitations. Even great powers have limitations.
Govern a great nation as you would cook a small fish. Do not overdo it.
We must remind Americans that the promise of opportunity remains unbroken - that every person in this great nation can succeed through hard work, courage and personal responsibility.
If we gave up our freedom as the price of security, we would no longer be the great nation that we are.
Now more than ever the people are responsible for the character of their Congress. If that body be ignorant, reckless, and corrupt, it is because the people tolerate ignorance, recklessness, and corruption. If it be intelligent, brave, and pure, it is because the people demand these high qualities to represent them in the national legislature. . . . If the next centennial does not find us a great nation . . . it will be because those who represent the enterprise, the culture, and the morality of the nation do not aid in controlling the political forces.
If America ever passes out as a great nation, we ought to put on our tombstone: America died from a delusion she had Moral Leadership.
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