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Govern a great nation as you would cook a small fish. Do not overdo it. -- Laozi
We have a great country, we are a great nation - let us trust in it. -- Felipe VI
Governing a great nation is like cooking a small fish - too much handling will spoil it. -- Lao Tzu
Terrorists cannot threaten the survival of a great nation. -- Conrad Black
Japan is a great nation. It should begin to act like one. -- John C. Danforth
The fundamentals that founded our great nation included the freedom of speech and religion. -- Markwayne Mullin
Germany is a great nation only because its people have so much Polish blood in their veins. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Those who want to reap the benefits of this great nation must bear the fatigue of supporting it. -- Thomas Paine
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
The great men of a nation reach out to all mankind. They are unifying, not divisive; internationally conciliating and still great nationally. -- Gustav Stresemann
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
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
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. -- Strom Thurmond
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
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
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
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
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. -- Muhammad Ali Jinnah
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
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. -- Eldridge Cleaver
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? -- A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
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. -- Vladimir Putin
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
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. -- Ben Stein
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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. -- John Boehner
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. -- Vicente Fox
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. -- Dilma Rousseff
France will always be a great nation. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
Ultimately a great nation is a compassionate nation. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
It is fitting for a great nation to yield. -- Laozi
Any number of depraved units cannot form a great nation. -- Samuel Smiles
Material wealth alone is not enough to build a great nation. -- Sunday Adelaja
Scotland is a great nation, but its horses are very uncomfortable. -- Mel Gibson
We are a great nation because we are a good people. -- Elizabeth Dole
The skills of the British intelligence community are a great national asset. -- John Scarlett
A mother is a school. Empower her; and you empower a great nation. -- Hafez Ibrahim
In a great nation, the majority are incapable of judging wisely of things. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
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
Govern a great nation as you would cook a small fish. Do not overdo it. -- Laozi
Let's light this fire one more time, Mike, and witness this great nation at its best. -- Christopher Ferguson
A great nation cannot abandon its responsibilities. Responsibilities abandoned today return as more acute crises tomorrow. -- Gerald R. Ford
Governing a great nation is like cooking a small fish, too much handling will spoil it. -- Laozi
History is not reassuring on the subject of the longevity of seemingly lasting great nations, is it? -- Dick Cavett
A great nation betrayed the principles which have made it great, and thereby became hostage to hostage-takers. -- Daniel Inouye
I am the living attestation of the American dream. I am the extolment of this great nation. -- Don King
A great nation is any mob of people which produces at least one honest man a century. -- H. L. Mencken
Across our great nation, we've begun to see an acceleration of the power of data to deliver value. -- Megan Smith
We will export death and violence to the four corners of the earth in defense of our great nation. -- George W. Bush
I have something else to ask you, to ask every American. I ask you to pray for this great nation. -- George W. Bush
I can recall no parallel in history where a great nation recently at war has so distinguished its former enemy commander. -- Douglas MacArthur
As a society, we've learned that we're all better off when everyone is included in the opportunities of this great nation. -- Edward Kennedy
Together we resolve that a great nation must care for the vulnerable and protect its people from life's worst hazards and misfortune. -- Barack Obama
There is no calamity which a great nation can invite which equals that which follows a supine submission to wrong and injustice -- Grover Cleveland
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
Compassion is not a dirty word.. it's time we rehabilitated compassion into the national political vocabulary of this great nation of ours. -- Kevin Rudd
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
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
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.
It is not what we have that will make us a great nation; it is the way in which we use it. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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
Let all Americans sit down and read this great document. Since the Constitution's ratification, it has been the framework for our great nation. -- Bob Latta
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.
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
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. -- William Cobbett
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. -- Andrew Johnson
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
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. -- Joachim Peiper
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. -- Rick Scarborough
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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
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 -- Strom Thurmond
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
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. -- Adolf Hitler
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. -- J. William Fulbright
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. -- Elliott Abrams
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. -- John Paul DeJoria
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
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? -- Martin Bashir
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. -- Jimmy Carter
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
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
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
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. -- Rebecca Harding Davis
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. -- Robert Hormats
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. -- James C. Collins
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
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! -- Patrick Henry
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. -- James Monroe
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. -- Rick Riordan
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. -- Abraham Lincoln
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. -- Lowell P. Weicker, Jr.
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. -- Igor Babailov
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 -- Richard Nixon
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. -- Gary Bauer
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
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.
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. -- Romain Rolland
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
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. -- Elijah Cummings
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. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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. -- Michael Winter
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. -- Carly Fiorina
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.' -- Pat Robertson
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 -- Walter Bagehot
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? -- Abraham Lincoln
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
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. -- George Carlin
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. -- Carly Fiorina
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 -- Kathleen Sebelius
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. -- Kathleen Sebelius
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. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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." -- Aporva Kala
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. -- Debbi Fields
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. -- Confucius
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. -- Henry A. Kissinger
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. -- Sarah Palin
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
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

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