Great Nations Quotes - Page 6

• I have something else to ask you-to ask every American. I ask for you to pray for this great nation. I ask your prayers for leaders from both parties. I thank you for your prayers for me and my family, and I ask you to pray for Vice President Gore and his family.

  George W. Bush

  Prayer, Party, Abortion

  2000 Victory Speech, delivered 13 December 2000

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• Sometimes I find myself thinking, rather wistfully, about Lao Tzu's famous dictum: 'Govern a great nation as you would cook a small fish.' All around me I see something very different, let us say - a number of angry dwarfs trying to grill a whale.

  William Carlos Williams

  Thinking, Whales, Numbers

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• We're taking action against evil people. Because this great nation of many religions understands, our war is not against Islam, or against faith practiced by the Muslim people. Our war is a war against evil. This is clearly a case of good versus evil, and make no mistake about it - good will prevail.

  George W. Bush

  War, Mistake, Inspiration

  "Former Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Gen. Richard Myers reacts to ISIS plan". www.foxnews.com. February 23, 2015.

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• Power tends to confuse itself with virtue, and a great nation is peculiarly susceptible to the idea that its power is a sign of God's favor.

  J. William Fulbright

  Ideas, Favors, Ethics

  J. William Fulbright (2011). “The Arrogance of Power”, p.16, Random House

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• Great Power, capable of everything and only temporarily handicapped by economic difficulties. We are not a great power and never will be again. We are a great nation, but if we continue to behave like a Great Power we shall soon cease to be a great nation. Let us take warning from the fate of the Great Powers of the past and not burst ourselves with pride .

  Henry Tizard

  Fate, Pride, Science

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• We can afford to exercise the self-restraint of a really great nation which realizes its own strength and scorns to misuse it.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Exercise, Self, Realizing

  Woodrow Wilson, Mario R. DiNunzio (2006). “Woodrow Wilson: Essential Writings and Speeches of the Scholar-president”, p.385, NYU Press

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• We must always remember that America is a great nation today not because of what government did for people but because of what people did for themselves and for one another.

  Richard M. Nixon

  4th Of July, Patriotic, Government

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• The trouble with celebrating Independence Day is that we tend to look back at what made this the great nation that it is and give little thought to a future that threatens that which free men hold dearest, namely freedom.

  Lyn Nofziger

  Men, Giving, Independence

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• A battle lost or won is easily described, understood, and appreciated, but the moral growth of a great nation requires reflection, as well as observation, to appreciate it.

  Frederick Douglass

  Patriotic, Reflection, Moral Growth

  Frederick Douglass, Philip Sheldon Foner, Yuval Taylor (1999). “Frederick Douglass: Selected Speeches and Writings”, p.565, Chicago Review Press

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• I have no doubt that the government of this great nation will work with its people to lead New Orleans and the Gulf Coast back to an enlightened, proud, safe part of the world.

  Harry Connick, Jr.

  New Orleans, Government, People

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• The resolve of our great nation is being tested. But make no mistake, we will show the world that we will pass the test.

  George W. Bush

  Mistake, World, Tests

  9/11 Remarks at Barksdale Air Force Base, delivered 11 September, 2001, Barksdale, Louisiana

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• America's fighting men and women sacrifice much to ensure that our great nation stays free. We owe a debt of gratitude to the soldiers that have paid the ultimate price for this cause, as well as for those who are blessed enough to return from the battlefield unscathed.

  Allen Boyd

  Gratitude, Blessed, Fighting

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• Poland should be strong and prosperous and independent and play its proper role as a great nation in the heart of Europe.

  George H. W. Bush

  Strong, Independent, Heart

  "The Presidents", www.pbs.org. May 5, 2008.

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• It took thrift and savings, together with tremendous character and vision, to make our nation what it is today. And it will take thrift and savings, together with constant ingenuity and stamina, to conserve our remaining resources to enable us to continue to be a great nation.

  John Wesley Snyder

  Character, Vision, Together

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• The fight against Germany has now been waged for months by every Jewish community, on every conference, in all labor unions and by every single Jew in the world. There are reasons for the assumption that our share in this fight is of general importance. We shall start a spiritual and material war of the whole world against Germany. Germany is striving to become once again a great nation, and to recover her lost territories as well as her colonies. But our Jewish interests call for the complete destruction of Germany.

  Ze'ev Jabotinsky

  Spiritual, War, Fighting

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• This year, as we celebrate the 230th anniversary of America's independence, please remember the symbols that are sacred to this country. Fly Old Glory high and show your respect and admiration for this great nation and the values we hold dear.

  Kenny Marchant

  Anniversary, Country, Years

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• The personal was, compared with the tides of great nations, a bothersome detail.

  Gregory Benford

  Details, Tides, Nations

  "Timescape". Book by Gregory Benford, 1980.

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• I am convinced that unless America changes course, we will become the France of the 21st Century - still a great nation, but no longer the leader of the world...

  Mitt Romney

  America, Leader, World

  "Romney suspends White House bid". news.bbc.co.uk. February 8, 2008.

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• Consequently, the tone, particularly that of the Viennese anti-Semitic press, seemed to me unworthy of the cultural tradition of a great nation.

  Adolf Hitler

  Tone, Mein Kampf, Tradition

  Adolf Hitler (1998). “Mein Kampf”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I wasn't a great communicator, but I communicated great things, and they didn't spring full-bloom from my brow - they came from the heart of a great nation.

  Ronald Reagan

  Spring, Heart, Great Things

  Farewell Address to the Nation, delivered 11 January 1989, Washington D.C.

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• America needs no words from me to see how your decision in Roe v. Wade has deformed a great nation. The so-called right to abortion has pitted mothers against their children and women against men.

  Mother Teresa

  Mother, Children, Men

  Amicus brief filed before the U.S. Supreme Court in the cases of Loce v. New Jersey and Krail et al. v. New Jersey, February 1994.

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• The Founding Fathers believed that faith in God was the key to our being a good people and America's becoming a great nation.

  Ronald Reagan

  God, Father, Keys

  United States. President (1981-1989 : Reagan), Ronald Reagan (1983). “Ronald Reagan”

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• I am the living attestation of the American dream. I am the extolment of this great nation.

  Don King

  Dream, American Dream, Nations

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• Against the odd's, I have persevered, I am the living attestation of the American dream. I am the extolment of this great nation. I have coffee and cocktails with presidents and dictators. I'm an international figure, a citizen of the world. I've made it.

  Don King

  Dream, Coffee, Boxing

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• I have something else to ask you, to ask every American. I ask you to pray for this great nation.

  George W. Bush

  Praying, Asks, Nations

  2000 Victory Speech, delivered 13 December 2000

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