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The great nations have always acted like gangsters, and the small nations like prostitutes. -- Stanley Kubrick
Nations, great nations have limitations. All nations have limitations. Even great powers have limitations. -- Chuck Hagel
Great nations need organizing principles, and 'Don't do stupid stuff' is not an organizing principle. -- Hillary Clinton
History is not reassuring on the subject of the longevity of seemingly lasting great nations, is it? -- Dick Cavett
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
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. -- Mikheil Saakashvili
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
Great nations are simply the operating fronts of behind-the-scenes, vastly ambitious individuals who had become so effectively powerful because of their ability to remain invisible while operating behind the national scenery. -- R. Buckminster Fuller
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. -- Gore Vidal
Great nations of the world are moving toward democracy. -- George H. W. Bush
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Nations, like families, have great men only in spite of themselves. -- Charles Baudelaire
The personal was, compared with the tides of great nations, a bothersome detail. -- Gregory Benford
As long as there are sovereign nations possessing great power, war is inevitable. -- Albert Einstein
Socialists cannot achieve their great aim without fighting against all oppression of nations. -- Vladimir Lenin
The United Nations is our one great hope for a peaceful and free world. -- Ralph Bunche
The great cause of revolutions is this, that while nations move onward, constitutions stand still. -- Thomas B. Macaulay
Great nations are never impoverished by private, though they sometimes are by public prodigality and misconduct. -- Adam Smith
Great nations don't have to remind others of their greatness. They merely have to be great. -- Kathleen Parker
A nation to be great ought to be compressed in its increment by nations more civilized than itself. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Emblem: the carapace of the great crowned snail is painted with all the flags of the United Nations. -- Mason Cooley
Whatever the scenario, the dynamism of developing nations, their demographics and competitive power are great sources for superiority. -- Ali Babacan
Nations in their great ages have not been great in art or science, but in art and science. -- Jacob Bronowski
Compromise, if not the spice of life, is its solidity. It is what makes nations great and marriages happy -- Phyllis McGinley
You were born to influence, you were called to influence, your existence is a great influence to all nations. -- Euginia Herlihy
The great men of power who seek to change the nations they belong to usually are pretty terrible people. -- John Keegan
In this nation, the greatest of all nations, there are no second-class families. That is our great American conviction. -- Benjamin Todd Jealous
In this nation, the greatest of all nations, there are no second-class families. That is our great American conviction. -- Benjamin Todd Jealous
The history of knowledge is a great fugue in which the voices of the nations one after the other emerge. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Whenever we forgive, in small ways at home, or in great ways between nations, we free ourselves from the past. -- Jack Kornfield
The great armies, accumulated to provide security and preserve the peace, carried the nations to war by their own weight. -- A. J. P. Taylor
Great nations do not succumb through lost wars, but rather through racial decay and the destruction of their internal order. -- Adolf Hitler
If we fail to solve this moral and spiritual crisis we may be doomed like the great nations of the past. -- Billy Graham
Canada is destined to be one of the great nations of the world and Canadian women must be ready for citizenship. -- Nellie L. McClung
Standing alone among great democratic nations in imposing the death penalty is another moral decision that Americansare being forced to confront. -- Jimmy Carter
We need to remember that trade is a great peacemaker that enriches people and increases international understanding and ties between nations. -- Dan Quayle
the distinction between rich nations and poor nations is one of the great dominant political and international themes of our century. -- Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth
Justice, sir, is the great interest of man on earth. It is the ligament which holds civilized beings and civilized nations together. -- Daniel Webster
Men in a state of nature, uncivilized nations, children, have a great fondness for colors in their utmost brightness, and especially for yellow-red. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
John Danforth, I thought, was a great senator and did a great job with the United Nations. I think he's a good man. -- Ken Mehlman
If we want our nations to be truly great we must lay less emphasis on material wealth, natural resources or even human resources. -- Sunday Adelaja
Great men, great nations, have not been boasters and buffoons, but perceivers of the terror of life, and have manned themselves to face it. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The great free nations of the world must take control of our monetary problems if these problems are not to take control of us. -- John F. Kennedy
No nation is so great as to be able to afford, in the long run, to remain outside an increasingly universal League of Nations -- Hjalmar Branting
Warned by the disaster of the last great war, the statesmen of all nations have been taking measures to prevent the return of another such calamity. -- Frank B. Kellogg
They enlarged the domains of commerce by treaties with all nations, upon the great principle of equal justice to all nations, and special favors to none. -- Robert Toombs
The neutron warhead is a defensive weapon designed to offset the great superiority that the Soviet Union has on the western front against the NATO nations. -- Ronald Reagan
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. -- Mikheil Saakashvili
The United Nations has been in the Great Lakes Region and Sahel for 50 years, mostly investing in peacekeeping. NOW is the time to invest in young people! -- Babatunde Osotimehin
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
The great rule of conduct for us, in regard to foreign nations, is, in extending our commercial relations, to have with them as little political connection as possible. -- George Washington
Decades of providing technology in growing volume and at decreasing costs have driven great gains for developing nations, communities and people worldwide, but there is still much to do. -- Paul Otellini
In the next century, nations as we know it will be obsolete; all states will recognize a single, global authority. National sovereignty wasn't such a great idea after all. -- Strobe Talbott
John Danforth, I thought, was a great senator and did a great job with the United Nations. I think he's a good man. I would respectfully disagree with that. -- Ken Mehlman
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 -- David Friedman
Extending over more than a century and including most nations of the globe, the cause of woman suffrage has been one of the great democratic forces in human history. -- Ellen DuBois
I would never betray a friend to serve a cause. Never reject a friend to help an institution. Great nations may fall in ruin before I would sell a friend to save them. -- Edward Abbey
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. -- Sunday Adelaja

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