Great Nations Quotes

• Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• It is not what we have that will make us a great nation; it is the way in which we use it.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Use It Or Lose It, Way, Nations

  Theodore Roosevelt, Paul H. Jeffers (1998). “The Bully Pulpit: A Teddy Roosevelt Book of Quotations”, p.29, Taylor Trade Publications

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• Ultimately a great nation is a compassionate nation.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Compassionate, Nations

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2013). “"In a Single Garment of Destiny": A Global Vision of Justice”, p.86, Beacon Press

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• 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.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Determination, Honesty, Integrity

  Theodore Roosevelt (1897). “The Works of Theodore Roosevelt: American ideals. Administration-Civil service”

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• Great countries are those that produce great people.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Country, People, Produce

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• Great nations write their autobiographies in three manuscripts - the book of their deeds, the book of their words and the book of their art.

  John Ruskin

  Art, Book, Writing

  St. Mark's Rest preface (1877)

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  Power without a nation's confidence is nothing.

  Catherine the Great

  Power, Rehabilitation, Nations

  "And I Quote: The Definitive Collection of Quotes, Sayings, and Jokes for the Contemporary Speechmaker". Book by Ashton Applewhite, Tripp Evans, and Andrew Frothingham, p. 278, 1992.

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• A good government may, indeed, redress the grievances of an injured people; but a strong people can alone build up a great nation.

  Thomas Francis Meagher

  Strong, Government, People

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• 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.

  Laozi

  Teacher, Mistake, Men

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• If we gave up our freedom as the price of security, we would no longer be the great nation that we are.

  Ruth Bader Ginsburg

  Gave Up, Nations, Ifs

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• 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.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Character, Men, History

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• In a great nation, the majority are incapable of judging wisely of things.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Power, Judging, Majority

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• If we fail to solve this moral and spiritual crisis we may be doomed like the great nations of the past.

  Billy Graham

  Spiritual, Past, May

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• 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.

  Tom Vilsack

  Country, Creativity, America

  "Energy Security". Interview with Vijay Vaitheeswaran, www.cfr.org. October 12, 2006.

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• 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.

  Christian D. Larson

  Character, Men, Hands

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• We are a great nation because we are a good people.

  Elizabeth Dole

  America, People, Nations

  Elizabeth Dole's Speech at the Republican National Convention in New York City, New York, www.washingtonpost.com. August 31, 2004.

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• 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.

  Mark Twain

  Mother, Past, Men

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• I am proud of my country. But we need to unite to make a unified India, free of communalism and casteism. We need to build India into a land of equal opportunity for all. We can be a truly great nation if we set our sights high and deliver to the people the fruits of continued growth, prosperity and equal opportunity.

  Ratan Tata

  Country, Opportunity, Greatness

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• You English are like mad bulls... you see red everywhere! What on earth has come over you, to heap on us such suspicion as is unworthy of a great nation. I regard this as a personal insult... You make it uncommonly difficult for a man to remain friendly to England.

  Wilhelm II

  Men, Insults You, Mad

  Remark to the Daily Telegraph. "The Growth of Nationalism: Germany and Italy 1815-1939". Book by Ronald Cameron, Charles Robertson, and Christine Henderson, 1992.

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• Nations, great nations have limitations. All nations have limitations. Even great powers have limitations.

  Chuck Hagel

  Great Power, Nations, Limitation

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• Education is the great engine of personal development. It is through education that the daughter of a peasant can become a doctor, that the son of a mineworker can become the head of the mine, that a child of farm workers can become the president of a great nation. It is what we make out of what we have, not what we are given, that separates one person from another.

  Nelson Mandela

  Success, Daughter, Children

  FaceBook post by Nelson Mandela from Jan 11, 2017

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• The great nations have always acted like gangsters, and the small nations like prostitutes.

  Stanley Kubrick

  History, Political, Humour

  In Guardian 5 June 1963

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• Govern a great nation as you would cook a small fish. Do not overdo it.

  Laozi

  Inspirational, Lakes, Sea

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• 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.

  Brian Sandoval

  Responsibility, Hard Work, Opportunity

  "Brian Sandoval RNC speech". www.politico.com. August 29, 2012.

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• Great nations do not succumb through lost wars, but rather through racial decay and the destruction of their internal order.

  Adolf Hitler

  War, Order, Decay

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