Born Quote by Joseph Pulitzer

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

— Jose Ortega y Gasset

Every person born in the USA is endowed with life, liberty, and a substantial share of the national debt.

— Francis Bacon

Our forefathers paved the way for us. Let's take their values and their strengths and rededicate ourselves to doing whatever it takes to keep…

— Nikki Haley

“The greatest people are the ones who have not sought greatness, but served greatly the causes, values, and missions that were much bigger than…

— Henry Cloud

That is the story of our history - whether it's the pursuit of prosperity for our people or the struggle for equality for all…

— Barack Obama

My fellow citizens, our nation is poised for greatness. We must do what we know is right, and do it with all our might.…

— Ronald Reagan

“To my countrymen who gave unto themselves the constitution but not the ability to keep it,who inherited resplendent heritage but not the wisdom to…

— Nani Palkhiwala

All men are interdependent. Every nation is an heir of a vast treasury of ideas and labor to which both the living and the…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

'Tis virtue, and not birth that makes us noble: Great actions speak great minds, and such should govern.

— John Fletcher

“Few of the university's sons had been distinguished in the nation's life--there had been an obscure President of the United States, and a few…

— Thomas Wolfe

In speaking to you men of the greatest city of the West, men of the state which gave to the country Lincoln and Grant,…

— Theodore Roosevelt

That nation is proudest and noblest and most exalted which has the greatest number of really great men.

— Sinclair Lewis