Class Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

There is no tongue to speak his eulogy; Too brightly burned his splendor for our eyes; Far easier to condemn his injurers, Than for…

— Michelangelo

Permanent superiority has never been realized by any nation in history. After the rise comes the fall.

— Paul Harris

Not in his speech, not in his thoughts, I see his greatness, only in his actions, in his life.

— Hermann Hesse

Man is never sufficiently touched and affected by the awareness of his lowly state until he has compared himself with God's majesty.

— John Calvin

The god can no more exist without his people than the nation without its god.

— William Robertson Smith

No man is without some quality, by the due application of which he might deserve well of the world; and whoever he be that…

— Samuel Johnson

Neither man nor nation can exist without a sublime idea.

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

Man's greatness lies in his power of thought.

— Blaise Pascal

In regard to intellect and true virtue, every nation is on a par with the rest, and God has not in these respects chosen…

— Baruch Spinoza

He has given ample evidence of qualities hardly any other living statesman has demonstrated to the same degree: the courage to look facts in…

— Alice Miller

“Because he let the entire world press upon him. For instance? Well, for instance, what it means to be a man. In a city.…

— Saul Bellow

Outside the kingdom of the Lord there is no nation which is greater than any other. God and history will remember your judgment.

— Haile Selassie