Quotes about Great Nation

Govern a great nation as you would cook a small fish. Do not overdo it. Votes: 6

We have a great country, we are a great nation - let us trust in it. Votes: 6

Governing a great nation is like cooking a small fish - too much handling will spoil it. Votes: 6

Terrorists cannot threaten the survival of a great nation. Votes: 4

Japan is a great nation. It should begin to act like one. Votes: 4

The fundamentals that founded our great nation included the freedom of speech and religion. Votes: 4

Germany is a great nation only because its people have so much Polish blood in their veins. Votes: 4

Those who want to reap the benefits of this great nation must bear the fatigue of supporting it. Votes: 4

Poland should be strong and prosperous and independent and play its proper role as a great nation in the heart of Europe. Votes: 4

The great men of a nation reach out to all mankind. They are unifying, not divisive; internationally conciliating and still great nationally. Votes: 4

A good government may, indeed, redress the grievances of an injured people; but a strong people can alone build up a great nation. Votes: 4

The resolve of our great nation is being tested. But make no mistake, we will show the world that we will pass the test. Votes: 4

I fully recognize and appreciate the many substantial contributions of black Americans and other minorities to the creation and preservation and development of our great nation. Votes: 4

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. Votes: 4

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. Votes: 4

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. Votes: 4

Rhetoric is a poor substitute for action, and we have trusted only to rhetoric. If we are really to be a great nation, we must not merely talk; we must act big. Votes: 4

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. Votes: 4

My message to you all is of hope, courage and confidence. Let us mobilize all our resources in a systematic and organized way and tackle the grave issues that confront us with grim determination and discipline worthy of a great nation. Votes: 4

There is no calamity which a great nation can invite which equals that which follows a supine submission to wrong and injustice and the consequent loss of national self-respect and honor, beneath which are shielded and defended a people's safety and greatness. Votes: 4

Tell me, why is the media here so negative? Why are we in India so embarrassed to recognise our own strengths, our achievements? We are such a great nation. We have so many amazing success stories but we refuse to acknowledge them. Why? Votes: 4

I am the wealthiest man, not just in Europe, but in the whole world. I collect emotions. I am wealthy in that the people of Russia have twice entrusted me with the leadership of a great nation such as Russia - I believe that is my greatest wealth. Votes: 4

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. Votes: 4

Sleep makes people calmer, more alert, less fearful - just plain happier, or so I see around me and in me. I am sure that if this great nation were to concentrate on getting more sleep, we would be a happier, more confident people, and that by itself would be a major achievement. Votes: 4

Instead of locking people up and throwing away the key, it's important to invest in them and show them another way - show them what they can do, instead of telling them what they can't do. Because by investing in youth, we're investing into the future of this great nation of the United States of America. Votes: 4

I started out mopping floors, waiting tables, and tending bar at my dad's tavern. I put myself through school working odd jobs and night shifts. I poured my heart and soul into a small business. And when I saw how out-of-touch Washington had become with the core values of this great nation, I put my name forward and ran for office. Votes: 4

I part of this great nation because my grandfather was born here, in Cincinnati, Ohio. He took a horse, back in 1895, and ride it all the way down to Guanajuato, looking for his American dream. No penny in his pocket, only dreams in his head. And he was an immigrant coming from the States into Mexico. And he found his American dream in Mexico. Votes: 4

I had great admiration for the election of President Obama. I believe that the U.S. at that moment showed tremendous capacity to show that it is a great nation, and it surprised the world. It may be very difficult to be able to elect a black president in the U.S. - as it was very difficult to elect a woman president in Brazil. Votes: 4

France will always be a great nation. Votes: 3

Ultimately a great nation is a compassionate nation. Votes: 3

It is fitting for a great nation to yield. Votes: 3

Any number of depraved units cannot form a great nation. Votes: 3

Scotland is a great nation, but its horses are very uncomfortable. Votes: 3

Material wealth alone is not enough to build a great nation. Votes: 3

We are a great nation because we are a good people. Votes: 3

The skills of the British intelligence community are a great national asset. Votes: 3

A mother is a school. Empower her; and you empower a great nation. Votes: 3

In a great nation, the majority are incapable of judging wisely of things. Votes: 3

The great nations have always acted like gangsters, and the small nations like prostitutes. Votes: 3

Nations, great nations have limitations. All nations have limitations. Even great powers have limitations. Votes: 3

Govern a great nation as you would cook a small fish. Do not overdo it. Votes: 3

Governing a great nation is like cooking a small fish, too much handling will spoil it. Votes: 3

A great nation cannot abandon its responsibilities. Responsibilities abandoned today return as more acute crises tomorrow. Votes: 3

History is not reassuring on the subject of the longevity of seemingly lasting great nations, is it? Votes: 3

A great nation is any mob of people which produces at least one honest man a century. Votes: 3

I am the living attestation of the American dream. I am the extolment of this great nation. Votes: 3

A great nation betrayed the principles which have made it great, and thereby became hostage to hostage-takers. Votes: 3

Across our great nation, we've begun to see an acceleration of the power of data to deliver value. Votes: 3

We will export death and violence to the four corners of the earth in defense of our great nation. Votes: 3

I have something else to ask you, to ask every American. I ask you to pray for this great nation. Votes: 3

I can recall no parallel in history where a great nation recently at war has so distinguished its former enemy commander. Votes: 3

As a society, we've learned that we're all better off when everyone is included in the opportunities of this great nation. Votes: 3

Together we resolve that a great nation must care for the vulnerable and protect its people from life's worst hazards and misfortune. Votes: 3

There is no calamity which a great nation can invite which equals that which follows a supine submission to wrong and injustice Votes: 3

Compassion is not a dirty word.. it's time we rehabilitated compassion into the national political vocabulary of this great nation of ours. Votes: 3

Consequently, the tone, particularly that of the Viennese anti-Semitic press, seemed to me unworthy of the cultural tradition of a great nation. Votes: 3

If we gave up our freedom as the price of security, we would no longer be the great nation that we are. Votes: 3

We can afford to exercise the self-restraint of a really great nation which realizes its own strength and scorns to misuse it. Votes: 3

I have a dream... I have a dream today... And if America is to be a great nation this must become true. Votes: 3

It is not what we have that will make us a great nation; it is the way in which we use it. Votes: 3

The Founding Fathers believed that faith in God was the key to our being a good people and America's becoming a great nation. Votes: 3

Let all Americans sit down and read this great document. Since the Constitution's ratification, it has been the framework for our great nation. Votes: 3

In some not too distant tomorrow the radiant stars of love and brotherhood will shine over our great nation with all their scintillating beauty. Votes: 3

Great men, great nations, have not been boasters and buffoons, but perceivers of the terror of life, and have manned themselves to face it. Votes: 3

Nothing is so well calculated to produce a death-like torpor in the country as an extended system of taxation and a great national debt. Votes: 3

I hold it the duty of the executive to insist upon frugality in the expenditure, and a sparing economy is itself a great national source. Votes: 3

In America, about the only thing censored today is Christianity, the same Christianity that was the driving force behind the building of this great nation. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

I was a National-Socialist and I remain one...The Germany of today is no longer a great nation, it has become a province of Europe. Votes: 3

I fully recognize and appreciate the many substantial contributions of black Americans and other minorities to the creation and preservation and development of our great nation Votes: 3

Keeping small nations enslaved because of the deals between the great nations or because of any pragmatic considerations that might have been there are totally unacceptable. Votes: 3

I showed up in October 1946, part of an early surge that would become a great nationwide baby boom. My sister Kathy was born a year later. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

An evil exists that threatens every man, woman, and child of this great nation. We must take steps to ensure our domestic security and protect our homeland. Votes: 3

Once imbued with the idea of a mission, a great nation easily assumes that it has the means as well as the duty to do God's work. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

Yes, everyone deserves to have national health care in a great nation such as ours. We just need to find ways to do it and not be overtaxed. Votes: 3

A great nation like the United States has many and varied interests, and we need both to do business with tyrants and to engage constantly in multilateral diplomacy. Votes: 3

Surely, God on high has not refused to give us enough wisdom to find ways to bring us an improvement in relations between the two great nations on earth. Votes: 3

A teenage taste of beer aside, Mitt Romney does not consume alcohol. Which begs the question, will total abstention put his candidacy, perhaps even this great nation in jeopardy? Votes: 3

The direct use of physical force is so poor a solution to the problem of limited resources that it is commonly employed only by small children and great nations Votes: 3

The reduction of nuclear arsenals and the removal of the threat of worldwide nuclear destruction is a measure, in my judgment, ofthe power and strength of a great nation. Votes: 3

Americans understand that one of our great national strengths is innovation. Great innovators - Benjamin Franklin, Henry Ford, Thomas Edison, Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, and others - are household names. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

Our village was built on the Ohio River, and was a halting place on this great national road, then the only avenue of traffic between the South and the North. Votes: 3

If we only have great companies, we will merely have a prosperous society, not a great one. Economic growth and power are the means, not the definition, of a great nation. Votes: 3

The movements of a great nation are connected in all their parts. If errors have been committed they ought to be corrected; if the policy is sound it ought to be supported. Votes: 3

By the end of World War II, we were the most powerful and least damaged of the great nations. We also had most of the money. America's hegemony lasted exactly five years. Votes: 3

It can not be emphasized too strongly or too often that this great nation was founded, not by religionists, but by Christians, not on religions, but on the gospel of Jesus Christ! Votes: 3

The United States is not a Christian nation. It is a great nation with Christians, among others, in it. But our greatness is based on the fact that there is no official religion. Votes: 3

Let the people on both sides keep their self-possession, and just as other clouds have cleared away in due time, so will this, and this great nation shall continue to prosper as before. Votes: 3

The Ancient Egyptians were not fools, Carter. They built the pyramids. They created the first great nation state. Their civilization lasted thousands of years." "Yeah," I said. "And now they're gone. Votes: 3

Even though these are different times, right now we are particularly thinking about what is leadership, and Washington's qualities are as needed today as they were at the founding of this great nation. Votes: 3

Every once in a while, a great nation has to deal with a great issue. Millions of people understand that it's not bigotry to believe that marriage is between a man and a woman. Votes: 3

The truth therefore is that great nations become great not because of their amount of wealth an Great nations become great thanks to their wealth of truth, honesty and other virtues the natural resources. Votes: 3

only if we act greatly in meeting our responsibilities abroad will we remain a great nation, and only if we remain a great nation will we act greatly in meeting our challenges at home Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

A great nation assailed by war has not only its frontiers to protect: it must also protect its good sense. It must protect itself from the hallucinations, injustices, and follies which the plague lets loose. Votes: 3

More than 26,000 lives may be lost to the effects of drug abuse this year. This tragic impact is felt in communities across this great nation. Sadly many of these deaths occur among our young people. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

This great nation will endure as it has endured, will revive and will prosper. So, first of all, let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself. Votes: 3

The highest calling of leadership is to challenge the status quo and unlock the potential of others. We need a leader who will lead the resurgence of this great nation and unlock its potential once again. Votes: 3

Before Newfoundland joined Canada in 1949, there was the same sort of talk of young men sacrificing their lives so that a country might grow - that somehow it had been a great nation-building success for Newfoundland. Votes: 3

When I first heard the song Don't worry - be happy I realized it was exactly the kind of mindless philosophy that Americans would respond to. It would make a great national anthem along with Me first. Votes: 3

The characteristic danger of great nations, like the Romans or the English which have a long history of continuous creation, is that they may at last fail from not comprehending the great institutions which they have created Votes: 3

It seems to me the Washington Monument is a symbol of America's power. It has been the symbol of our great nation. We look at the symbol and we say 'this is one nation under God.' Votes: 3

It will be worthy of a free, enlightened, and, at no distant period, a great nation, to give to mankind the magnanimous and too novel example of a people always guided by an exalted justice and benevolence. Votes: 3

By what principle of original right is it that one-fiftieth or one-ninetieth of a great nation, by calling themselves a State, have the right to break up and ruin that nation as a matter of original principle? Votes: 3

Margaret Thatcher - a woman I greatly admire - once said that she was not content to manage the decline of a great nation. Neither am I. I am prepared to lead the resurgence of a great nation. Votes: 3

The men and women who serve this great nation, whether they are stationed in Iraq, Fort Riley, or the Korean Peninsula, or they serve us at home as our community first responders, serve because they believe in America. Votes: 3

The men and women who serve this great nation, whether they are stationed in Iraq, Fort Riley, or the Korean Peninsula, or they serve us at home as our community first responders, serve because they believe in America Votes: 3

An array of colorful camps dotted the river banks, like a garrison of army on a peace keeping mission. A mini India, many great nations. different people living in the same place, an inversion of the notion of nation." Votes: 3

It is by no means necessary that a great nation should always stand at the heroic level. But no nation has the root of greatness in it unless in time of need it can rise to the heroic mood. Votes: 3

I have the good fortune of knowing both John McCain and Donald Trump well, both men have more in common than the today's media hype would have you believe. Both blazed trails in their careers and love our great nation. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

The key decision for a statesman is whether to commit his nation or not. There is no middle course. Once a great nation commits itself, it must prevail. It will acquire no kudos for translating its inner doubts into hesitation. Votes: 3

The superior person tries to promote music as a means to the perfection of human culture. When such music prevails, and people's minds are led towards the right ideals and aspirations, we may see the appearance of a great nation. Votes: 3

Small business in America is what fuels the American economy. We need more small business to assist us in creating a great nation and in creating more jobs. It's this frontier that is endless in terms of opportunity and potential. Votes: 3

May the Santo Niño continue to bless the Philippines and may he sustain the Christians of this great nation in their vocation to be witnesses and missionaries of the joy of the Gospel, in Asia and in the whole world. Votes: 3

This is a great nation at terrible risk in a dangerous world, and she has fully exposed this nation and will continue to do so because of her utter incompetence and Hillary Clinton lack of care, lack of attention, lack of concern. Votes: 3

Tell me, why is the media here so negative? Why are we in India so embarrassed to recognize our own strengths, our achievements? We are such a great nation. We have so many amazing success stories but we refuse to acknowledge them. Why?. Votes: 3

Far be it from me to paint a rosy picture of the future...But I should be failing in my duty if, on the other side, I were not to convey the true impression, that this great nation is getting into its war stride. Votes: 3

Yet by such worthless beings is a great nation to be governed and even made to deify their old king because he is only a fool and a maniac, and to forgive and forget his having lost to them a great and flourishing empire. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

America became a great nation early on not because it was flooded with politicians, but because it was flooded with people who understood the value of personal responsibility, hard work, creativity, innovation, and that's what will get us on the right track now, as well. Votes: 3

We have always been a great national party, with views on all the main issues. We recognise that what matters to people most are those things that affect their daily lives: schools, hospitals, transport and law and order and we have plenty to say about them. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

We have been flooded with postal cards from all over the United States and several parallel universes. Just a quick glance though these cards is enough to remind you why this great nation, despite all the talk of decline, still leads the world in tranquilizer consumption. Votes: 3

Cable is a dynamic and highly innovative industry, providing cutting edge services and content that Americans love. The broadband platform the industry has deployed is a critical part of the infrastructure needed to realize our national ambition to be a great nation in the Information Age. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

People would ask me how I could stand the long campaigning, how I could stand being charged with the responsibilities of a great nation, one of the most powerful and difficult jobs in the world. It wasn't any more difficult than picking cotton all day or shaking peanuts. Votes: 3

This is taking place inside Europe. This is taking place inside a once great nation. The nation that invented democracy. We are on the edge of total social breakdown. And frankly, as far as the euro is concerned and the austerity measures are concerned, the medicine is killing the patient. Votes: 3

I am honored to have served as our great nation's first National Ambassador for Young People's Literature. I will continue to serve as Ambassador Emeritus. And I will make good on my Ambassadorial promise to my wife to stop playing the 'Fanfare' every time I walk into or out of a room. Votes: 3

Let us all hope that the dark clouds of racial prejudice will soon pass away and the deep fog of misunderstanding will be lifted from our fear-drenched communities, and in some not too distant tomorrow the radiant stars of love and brotherhood will shine over our great nation with all their scintillating beauty. Votes: 3

Smart and savvy, the fearless female member of George Washington's Secret Six is a testament to the strong women who have helped to alter the course of history in this great nation, both in terms of large-scale battles and in the new opportunities they have helped create for future generations through their own fearless examples. Votes: 3

Immigrants bring to America the values of faith in God, love of family, hard work and self reliance - the values that made us a great nation to begin with. We've all seen those values in action, through the service and sacrifice of more than 35,000 foreign-born men and women currently on active duty in the United States military. Votes: 3

I want to applaud those workers rallying to raise the minimum wage to $15 per hour. I believe strongly that a great nation will not survive when so few have so much and so many have so little. Every worker in America should be given respect, dignity and the wages and benefits they need to take care of their family. Votes: 3

My parents were exactly like millions of other Americans who had a fire in their belly to build something of their own, and in so doing they exemplified the dignity of work, the opportunity available in this great nation to those willing to work, and they left the world a bit better than it was when they first showed up. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

I never imagined when I wrote my first book on Strauss that the unscrupulous elite that he elevates would ever come so close to political power, nor that the ominous tyranny of the wise would ever come so close to being realised in the political life of a great nation like the United States. But fear is the greatest ally of tyranny. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

The fact of the matter is we went after Iraq for oil. And the fact of the matter is that the United States has degraded our role as a great nation by attacking this nation that had no capacity to attack the United States and no intention of doing so, that didn't have anything to do with 9/11, didn't have weapons of mass destruction. Votes: 3

Giving is what makes a nation great. Votes: 2

A war for a great principle ennobles a nation. Votes: 2

It feels great to be a two-time Six Nations winner. Votes: 2

A very great Iliad... concerns the creation of a nation. Votes: 2

A great poet is the most precious jewel of a nation. Votes: 2

The United Nations is our one great hope for a peaceful and free world. Votes: 2

America was born as a nation of immigrants who have always contributed to its greatness. Votes: 2

The greatness of a nation can be judged by the way its animals are treated. Votes: 2

We, the people of the United States, we are a great Nation with a great vision. Votes: 2

Let's light this fire one more time, Mike, and witness this great nation at its best. Votes: 2

The great armies, accumulated to provide security and preserve the peace, carried the nations to war by their own weight. Votes: 2

John Danforth, I thought, was a great senator and did a great job with the United Nations. I think he's a good man. Votes: 2

America is great not because it's a team. America is great because it is a nation whose founding documents elevated the rights of the individual. Votes: 2

I am concerned for the security of our great Nation; not so much because of any threat from without, but because of the insidious forces working from within. Votes: 2

One of the great strengths of the United States is... we have a very large Christian population - we do not consider ourselves a Christian nation or a Jewish nation or a Muslim nation. We consider ourselves a nation of citizens who are bound by ideals and a set of values. Votes: 2

Power without a nation's confidence is nothing. Votes: 2

America's Older Americans add great value to our Nation. Votes: 0

Great anger and violence can never build a nation. Votes: 0

The English nation is never so great as in adversity. Votes: 0

Great men stamp their mind upon their age and nation. Votes: 0

Social prosperity means man happy, the citizen free, the nation great. Votes: 0

What has made this nation great? Not its heroes but its households. Votes: 0

Remember that our nation's first great leaders were also our first great scholars. Votes: 0

You are destiny to be;Rebuilder of great home.Restorer of mighty nation. Votes: 0

That nation is great which rests its head upon death as its pillow. Votes: 0

We're too great a nation to allow the evildoers to affect our soul. Votes: 0

How can a nation be called great if its bread tastes like kleenex? Votes: 0

A nation is a body of people who have done great things together. Votes: 0

The virtues of character, behavioural patterns determine how great a nation and people are. Votes: 0

Just how could a nation often be great if it's bread tastes want Kleenex. Votes: 0

This great Nation will endure as it has endured, will revive and will prosper. Votes: 0

A nation is as great, and only as great, as her rank and file. Votes: 0

Let's never forget what made us great as a nation. It's not diversity, it's liberty. Votes: 0

Our shared conservative values, our belief in the individual is the great hope of our nation. Votes: 0

The great works belong to no one nation, no one cultural tradition even. They are universal. Votes: 0

I don't have to be nice to people who are causing great damage to the nation... Votes: 0

A petty thief is put in jail. A great brigand becomes a ruler of a Nation. Votes: 0

No one built this country on their own. This nation is great because we built it together. Votes: 0

A little matter will move a party, but it must be something great that moves a nation. Votes: 0

We can't encourage narrow mindedness, for no nation can be great whose people are narrow in thought. Votes: 0

Australia is a nation of compassion. Courage and compassion. And the third of these great values: resilience. Votes: 0

That nation is proudest and noblest and most exalted which has the greatest number of really great men. Votes: 0

My case was wrongfully decided, and has caused great harm to the women and children of our nation. Votes: 0

A nation to be great ought to be compressed in its increment by nations more civilized than itself. Votes: 0

We refuse to believe that there are insufficient funds in the great vaults of opportunity of this nation. Votes: 0

A poverty-stricken nation with a great art is a greater nation than a wealthy nation with a poverty-stricken art. Votes: 0

What makes a nation great is not primarily its great men, but the stature of its innumerable mediocre ones. Votes: 0

A great literature is chiefly the product of inquiring minds in revolt against the immovable certainties of the nation Votes: 0

Although our great man at the head of the nation, has changed his course, I will not change mine. Votes: 0

In this nation, the greatest of all nations, there are no second-class families. That is our great American conviction. Votes: 0

There is nothing near as powerful in making a nation great like establishing values and virtues upon a nation. Votes: 0

California is a great big nation of one They never knew what they wanted 'til it was already gone Votes: 0

We need the real, nation-wide terror which reinvigorates the country and through which the Great French Revolution achieved glory. Votes: 0

A great Nation should have a fixed Government, so that the death of one man should not overturn it. Votes: 0

In this nation, the greatest of all nations, there are no second-class families. That is our great American conviction. Votes: 0

Bankruptcy is about financial death and financial rebirth. Bankruptcy is the great American story rewritten. We're a nation of debtors. Votes: 0

Twelve states in the Great Plains have a wind energy potential greater then the electric use of our entire nation. Votes: 0

It is true of the Nation, as of the individual, that the greatest doer must also be a great dreamer. Votes: 0

What we need now is a nation of great people who live to positively impact others and build enduring legacies Votes: 0

What we need now is a nation of great people who live to positively impact others and build enduring legacies Votes: 0

For over 221 years our Corps has done two things for this great Nation. We make Marines, and we win battles. Votes: 0

Our Nation is in great need of young men and women of character to lead in every arena of our society. Votes: 0

He watched them grow, until eventually, great forests of words had risen throughout Germany.... It was a nation of farmed thoughts. Votes: 0

The great victory of April 30 represents the triumph of the entire nation, of justice over brutality and of humanity over tyranny. Votes: 0

Conservation is a great moral issue, for it involves the patriotic duty of insuring the safety and continuance of the nation. Votes: 0

After the war, Prohibition was passed, and with liquor no longer legally available the nation plunged headlong into the Great Depression. Votes: 0

Our Nation is in great need of young men and women of character to lead in every arena of our society. Votes: 0

A state in India will have more traders than perhaps a European nation. Trade is a great way to integrate people. Votes: 0

Entrepreneurship is the very back bone of our country and what makes us great - we are a nation of founders. Votes: 0

The glory of a nation and an age is always the work of a few great persons, and it disappears with them. Votes: 0

This is a time of great challenges for America, and I pray that the president will be successful in guiding our nation. Votes: 0

I am for police function that protects citizens of this great Nation, not a police function that is used to terrorize them. Votes: 0

A nation is a detour of nature to arrive at five or six great men- yes, and then to get around them. Votes: 0

There was never a nation great until it came to the knowledge that it had nowhere in the world to go for help. Votes: 0

There's one guy who inspired a nation of golfers, and that's Greg Norman. He's been incredible to me and all the great golfers. Votes: 0

To be the father of a nation is a great honor, but to be the father of a family is a greater joy. Votes: 0

No nation has ever produced great art that has not made a high art of cookery, because art appeals primarily to the senses. Votes: 0

Liberty is the great parent of science and of virtue; and a nation will be great in both in proportion as it is free. Votes: 0

No nation can be really great that is held together by Gatling guns, and no true loyalty can be induced and kept through fear. Votes: 0

No nation is so great as to be able to afford, in the long run, to remain outside an increasingly universal League of Nations Votes: 0

As I review the great history of our nation, community organizers have been at the center of so many of our great social movements. Votes: 0

Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. Votes: 0

China no longer has an ideology that makes any sense to them, but what they do have is great pride in the Chinese nation. Votes: 0

Great political questions stir the deepest nature of one-half the nation, but they pass far above and over the heads of the other half. Votes: 0

In the mind of Bill Clinton, political considerations outweigh even life-and-death matters of great concern to his own law-enforcement officials, not to mention the nation. Votes: 0

There was never a nation that became great until it came to the knowledge that it had nowhere in the world to go for help. Votes: 0

King Louis Philippe once said to me that he attributed the great success of the British nation in political life to their talking politics after dinner. Votes: 0

The Nation that makes a great distinction between its scholars and its warriors will have its thinking done by cowards and its fighting done by fools. Votes: 0

The relation between the white and colored people of this country is the great, paramount, imperative, and all-commanding question for this age and nation to solve. Votes: 0

I want to say thank you to the great state of Indiana and all the fans.... Pacers Nation, Blue and Gold, thank you guys so much. Votes: 0

A great industrial nation may conquer the world in the span of a single life, but its Achilles' heel is time. Its children, what of them? Votes: 0

Regardless of the nature of their crime or any rehabilitation that may have occurred, these ex-felons cannot participate in the decision-making process of this great Nation. Votes: 0

Regardless of the nature of their crime or any rehabilitation that may have occurred, these ex-felons cannot participate in the decision-making process of this great Nation. Votes: 0

A nation is a body of people who have done great things together in the past and hope to do great things together in the future. Votes: 0

Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation can be trusted to act humanely or to think sanely under the influence of a great fear. Votes: 0

I believe that Bill Clinton will be remembered as one of our nation's great Presidents, and Senator Clinton as one of our nation's great public servants. Votes: 0

The money cost of the reservoir plan literally fades into insignificance when it is compared with the financial burden which the great depression imposed on the nation. Votes: 0

Publicity is a great purifier because it sets in action the forces of public opinion, and in this country public opinion controls the courses of the nation Votes: 0

When a nation gives birth to a man who is able to produce a great thought, another is born who is able to understand and admire it. Votes: 0

When I was growing up in Iraq, there was an unbroken belief in progress and a great sense of optimism. It was a moment of nation building. Votes: 0

When a nation gives birth to a man who is able to produce a great thought, another is born who is able to understand and admire it Votes: 0

The world has never yet seen a truly great and virtuous nation because in the degradation of woman the very fountains of life are poisoned at their source. Votes: 0

The world has never yet seen a truly great and virtuous nation, because in the degradation of women, the very fountains of life are poisoned at their source. Votes: 0

Slowly but without question - and Presidents' Day is only one example - Americans are forgetting and ignoring the men and events that have made this nation great. Votes: 0

Maybe some things that weren't so great were said about the Irish when they came. But Americans've done well by absorbing immigrants and it's made our nation stronger. Votes: 0

For mere vengeance I would do nothing. This nation is too great to look for mere revenge. But for security of the future I would do every thing. Votes: 0

The great, the fundamental need of any nation, any race, is for heroism, devotion, sacrifice; and there cannot be heroism, devotion, or sacrifice in a primarily skeptical spirit. Votes: 0

The great Islamic nation cannot ... be indifferent and remain silent on the injustice done to you. The Islamic nation is required to assist you in any way it can. Votes: 0

Obama fans become more and more glum that he keeps flubbing the very role he was expected to be so good at: Therapist to the nation. The Great Comforter. Votes: 0

A highwayman is as much a robber when he plunders in a gang as when single; and a nation that makes an unjust war is only a great gang. Votes: 0

It does not matter what party you are a member of in this great Nation of ours. Accountability and competence are characteristics that Americans value throughout our great land. Votes: 0

If we are to fulfill the promise of this great Nation that everybody in our society has equal access to the law, obviously having the resources to have access to the law is extremely important. Votes: 0