Competitive Quote by Ali Babacan

Permanent superiority has never been realized by any nation in history. After the rise comes the fall.

— Paul Harris

With the decline of America's global preeminence, weaker countries will be more susceptible to the assertive influence of major regional powers.

— Zbigniew Brzezinski

The very strength of a nation eventually proves to be its weakness.

— Paul Harris

The superiority...enjoyed by nations that have...perfected a branch of industry, constitutes a...formidable obstacle.

— Alexander Hamilton

The more developed a nation is, the more complete is the independence of the individual, and the safer the individual from encroachments by another.

— Dmitry Pisarev

The imbalance between developed and underdeveloped countries - caused by the relationships of dependence - becomes more acute if the cultural point of view…

— Gustavo Gutiérrez

The whole history of the world is summed up in the fact that, when nations are strong, they are not always just, and when…

— Anonymous

Wars of aggression are popular nowadays with those nations convinced that only victory and conquest could improve their material well-being.

— Ludwig von Mises

Nations, like plants and human beings, grow. And if the development is thwarted they are dwarfed and overshadowed.

— Claude McKay

We have the tools to be a stronger nation than we were before Sept. 11, 2001. We have learned valuable lessons about the danger…

— MJ Hegar

“those nations which are strongest tend to prevail over the others; and in certain marked peculiarities the strongest tend to be the best.”

— Paul Ham

“And more than the quality of its institutions, what distinguishes a developed country from a developing one is the degree of consensus in its…

— Raghuram G. Rajan