Betrayed Quote by Daniel Inouye

Great nations which fail to meet their responsibilities are consigned to the dustbin of history. We grew from that small, weak republic which had…

— Ronald Reagan

A nation's path to greatness lies in its economic prowess and ... militarism, empire, and aggression lead to a dead end.

— Fareed Zakaria

Great-power politics is tragic because the structure of the international system forces states that seek only to be secure nonetheless to act aggressively toward…

— John Mearsheimer

We are all hostages, and we are all terrorists. This circuit has replaced that other one of masters and slaves, the dominating and the…

— Jean Baudrillard

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

Powerful dictatorships that make their leaders powerful need to stage wars to get ordinary people to march in lockstep like mindless Nazi robots. That…

— Michael A. Ledeen

“And the great owners, who must lose their land in an upheaval, the great owners with access to history, with eyes to read history…

— John Steinbeck

...the true greatness of a nation is founded on principles of humanity.

— Thomas Paine

Ruthless, greedy, tyrannical, disreputable they have had one principle worth all the rest, the principle of delight!

— Kenneth Clark

That four great nations, flushed with victory and stung with injury, stay the hand of vengeance and voluntarily submit their captive enemies to the…

— Robert H. Jackson

A nation to be great ought to be compressed in its increment by nations more civilized than itself.

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“A nations path to greatness lies in its economic prowess and that militarism, empire, and aggression lead to a dead end.”

— Fareed Zakaria