Great Nations Quotes - Page 2

• The United Nations is our one great hope for a peaceful and free world.

  Ralph Bunche

  Love, Peace, World

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• 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.

  Will Rogers

  Tombstone, Moral Leadership, Usa

  Will Rogers (1979). “Will Rogers' Daily Telegrams: The Hoover years, 1931-1933”, Will Rogers Heritage Trust

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• 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.

  Benjamin Carson

  Hard Work, Creativity, Responsibility

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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

  Christopher Ferguson

  Fire, Light, Space

  "'Light this fire one more time'". tucson.com. July 9, 2011.

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• 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.

  James A. Garfield

  Ignorance, Character, Intelligent

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• Japan is a great nation. It should begin to act like one.

  John C. Danforth

  Japan, Should, Nations

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• If I were asked under what sky the human mind has most fully developed some of its choicest gifts, has most deeply pondered on the greatest problems of life, and has found solutions, I should point to India.

  Max Muller

  Sky, Mind, Independence

  Max Muller (1999). “India: What Can it Teach Us?”, p.24, Book Tree

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• 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.

  George Washington

  Justice, People, Giving

  George Washington, John Jay, Jared Sparks (1850). “Washington's Farewell Address to the People of the United States of America”, p.38, New York : J. Wiley

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• I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts. I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat! If we ever pass out as a great nation we ought to put on our tombstone 'America died from a delusion that she had moral leadership.'

  Will Rogers

  Tombstone, Party, Government

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• 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.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Dangerous World, Risk, Attention

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• Truly it has been said that there is nothing new under the sun,
  for knowledge is revealed and is submerged again, even as a nation rises and falls.
  Here is a system, tested throughout the ages, but lost again and again by ignorance or prejudice,
  in the same way that great nations have risen and fallen
  and been lost to history beneath the desert sands and in the ocean depths.

  Paracelsus

  Fall, Ocean, Ignorance

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

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Dream, Freedom, America

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• This great Nation will endure as it has endured, will revive and will prosper.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Endure, Inaugural, Revive

  First Inaugural Address, Delivered 4 March 1933

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• 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.

  Mikhail Gorbachev

  Two, Giving, Earth

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• A mother is a school. Empower her; and you empower a great nation.

  Hafez Ibrahim

  Mother, School, Empowering

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• If Harvey [Milk] had not been taken from us 30 years ago, I think he would want me to say to all the gay and lesbian kids out there tonight who have been told they are less than by the churches, by the government, by their families, that you are beautiful, wonderful creatures of value, and that no matter what anyone tells you, God does love you and that very soon, I promise you, you will have equal rights, federally, across this great nation of ours.

  Dustin Lance Black

  Love, Beautiful, Taken

  "Pure Inspiration From Dustin Lance Black" by Caroline Hart, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 2, 2017.

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• 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.

  Nigel Farage

  Europe, Medicine, Democracy

  "On the edge of social breakdown". UK Independence Party Website, May 31, 2012.

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

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Kings, Stars, Racism

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2013). “The Essential Martin Luther King, Jr.: "I Have a Dream" and Other Great Writings”, p.106, Beacon Press

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• 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.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Political, Politics, Action

  Theodore Roosevelt (2015). “Theodore Roosevelt on Bravery: Lessons from the Most Courageous Leader of the Twentieth Century”, p.36, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• My patriotism is of the kind which is outraged by the notion that the United States never was a great nation until in a petty three months' campaign it knocked to pieces a poor, decrepit, bankrupt old state like Spain. To hold such an opinion as that is to abandon all American standards, to put shame and scorn on all that our ancestors tried to build up here, and to go over to the standards of which Spain is a representative.

  William Graham Sumner

  Three, Campaigns, Pieces

  William Graham Sumner (1919). “War and Other Essays”

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

  Laozi

  Inspirational, Cooking, Too Much

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• 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!

  Unknown

  Bible, God, Education

  Patrick Henry (2007). “Patrick Henry in his speeches and writings and in the words of his contemporaries”, Warwick House Publishing

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  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.

  Douglas MacArthur

  Military, Gun, New World Order

  Douglas MacArthur's speech to the Texas Legislature in Austin (June 13, 1951) as quoted in "General MacArthur Speeches and Reports 1908-1964" edited by Edward T. Imparato (p. 175), June 14, 2000.

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

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Men, Power, Should Have

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• China is a great nation that offers the world a great culture, so many good things. I love the Chinese people and I hope there is the possibility of having good relations. We're in contact, we talk, we are moving forward but for me, to have as a friend a great country like China, which has so much culture and has so much opportunity to do good, would be a joy.

  Pope Francis

  Country, Moving, Opportunity

  "Pope Francis: 'I’m not a star, but the servant of servants of God'". Vatican Radio translation of Pope Francis' press conference, www.news.va. September 28, 2015.

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