Detour Quote by Friedrich Nietzsche

There are men who, by their sympathetic attractions, carry nations with them, and lead the activity of the human race.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

All men are by nature free; you have therefore an undoubted liberty to depart whenever you please, but will have many and great difficulties…

— Voltaire

Nations, like families, have great men only in spite of themselves.

— Charles Baudelaire

The great men of a nation reach out to all mankind. They are unifying, not divisive; internationally conciliating and still great nationally.

— Gustav Stresemann

The growth of our nation and all its activities are in the hands of a few men.

— Woodrow Wilson

Nations, like men, have their infancy.

— Henry Bolingbroke

What makes a nation great is not primarily its great men, but the stature of its innumerable mediocre ones.

— Jose Ortega y Gasset

It is in times of difficulty that great nations like great men display the whole energy of their character and become an object of…

— Napoleon Bonaparte

A great nation is any mob of people which produces at least one honest man a century.

— H. L. Mencken

Just after they exist, all men start travelling; some towards the land of the truth, some towards the land of the stupidity! Most men…

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

Men are now proud of belonging to a conquering nation, and without a murmur they lay down their persons and their wealth, if by…

— William James

It is true that men themselves made this world of nations... but this world without doubt has issued from a mind often diverse, at…

— Giambattista Vico