Great Nations Quotes

21 quotes by 19 authors

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… — Napoleon Bonaparte
That four great nations, flushed with victory and stung with injury, stay the hand of vengeance and voluntarily submit their captive enemies to the judgment… — Robert H. Jackson
Great nations of the world are moving toward democracy. — George H. W. Bush
The privilege of opening the first trial in history for crimes against the peace of the world imposes a grave responsibility. The wrongs, which we… — Robert H. Jackson
Canada is destined to be one of the great nations of the world and Canadian women must be ready for citizenship. — Nellie L. McClung
Every virile people has established colonial power. All great nations in the fullness of their strength have desired to set their mark upon barbarian lands… — Heinrich von Treitschke
Great nations need organizing principles, and 'Don't do stupid stuff' is not an organizing principle. — Hillary Clinton
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
Great nations which fail to meet their responsibilities to God are consigned to the dust bin of history. We grew from that small, weak republic… — 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… — Mikhail Saakashvili
Nations, great nations have limitations. All nations have limitations. Even great powers have limitations. — Chuck Hagel
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… — Mikhail Gorbachev
There are at the present time two great nations in the world allude to the Russians and the Americans All other nations seem to have… — Alexis de Tocqueville
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… — R. Buckminster Fuller
The great nations have always acted like gangsters, and the small nations like prostitutes. — Stanley Kubrick
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
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… — Edward Abbey
History is not reassuring on the subject of the longevity of seemingly lasting great nations, is it? — Dick Cavett
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… — David Friedman
Numerous emigrants, of every lineage and language, attracted by the civil and religious freedom we enjoy and by our happy condition, annually crowd to our… — James K Polk

Who Wrote These Great Nations Quotes

19 authors contributed a total of 21 Great Nations Quotes as follows: