Ability Quote by James A. Garfield

I'm suggesting that, ironically, the secret to becoming a world 'hyperpower' is tolerance. If you look at history, you see great powers being very…

— Amy Chua

The great powers claim that whatever they possess is theirs by right, but whatever we, the smaller countries possess is negotiable.

— Mohammed Reza Pahlavi

We will not regard any great power as necessarily right in a given dispute unless we are convinced of this, yet at the same…

— Errol Barrow

No man has the right to use the great powers of the Presidency to lead the people, indirectly, into war.

— Wendell Willkie

There will be a meeting of the great powers who will disagree, and the next noise we hear will be the screeching of elevators…

— Mordecai Wyatt Johnson

We may anticipate a state of affairs in which two Great Powers will each be in a position to put an end to the…

— J. Robert Oppenheimer

The great powers of the world may have done wonders in giving the world an industrial and military look but the great gift still…

— Steven Biko

With the defeat of the Reich and pending the emergence of the Asiatic, the African and, perhaps, the South American nationalisms, there will remain…

— Adolf Hitler

I don't want to directly confront great powers, which we cannot defeat on their terms. They have more money, more clout, more airtime. We…

— Edward Snowden

You know, great powers don't get angry, great powers don't make decisions hastily in a crisis.

— John R. Allen

Great Power, capable of everything and only temporarily handicapped by economic difficulties. We are not a great power and never will be again. We…

— Henry Tizard

Great powers must be forever vigilant and never subordinate survival to any other goal, including prosperity.

— John Mearsheimer