Quote by Ada Palmer

“The greatness of a nation is dependent on the potentials of its citizens. Great nations don’t make great people, only great people make great…

— CLEMENT OGEDEGBE

Nations are not truly great solely because the individuals composing them are numerous, free, and active; but they are great when these numbers, this…

— Matthew Arnold

“I judge the people and the nations by their ideals; the higher the ideals, the profounder the person, the greater the nation.”

— Mehmet Murat ildan

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…

— Laozi

“What people discard could make a nation”

— Don DeLillo

“However enlightened and however skilful a central power may be, it cannot of itself embrace all the details of the existence of a great…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

“This nation is very strange. It watches tyranny in silence and in time it proves its own will—the fact of its existence—through passive resistance”

— Azar Nafisi

“The greatness of a nation is not the military power to enforce its will upon others, but rather its capacity to inspire high ideals…

— Anonymous

Nothing is good for a nation but that which arises from its own core and its own general wants, without apish imitation of another.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can excersize…

— Abe Lincoln

There comes a time when the nation is great than an individual

— James Mwenda

“A Nation should not be judged by how it treats its highest citizens, but it's lowest ones”

— Nelson Mandela