Quotes on Great Nations

I am proud of my country. But we need to unite to make a unified India, free of communalism and casteism. We need to build India into a land of equal opportunity for all. We can be a truly great nation if we set our sights high and deliver to the people the fruits of continued growth, prosperity and equal opportunity.

If Harvey [Milk] had not been taken from us 30 years ago, I think he would want me to say to all the gay and lesbian kids out there tonight who have been told they are less than by the churches, by the government, by their families, that you are beautiful, wonderful creatures of value, and that no matter what anyone tells you, God does love you and that very soon, I promise you, you will have equal rights, federally, across this great nation of ours.

America needs no words from me to see how your decision in Roe v. Wade has deformed a great nation. The so-called right to abortion has pitted mothers against their children and women against men.

A mother is a school. Empower her; and you empower a great nation.

Together we resolve that a great nation must care for the vulnerable and protect its people from life's worst hazards and misfortune.

A good government may, indeed, redress the grievances of an injured people; but a strong people can alone build up a great nation.

The great nations have always acted like gangsters, and the small nations like prostitutes.

Ultimately a great nation is a compassionate nation.

Power tends to confuse itself with virtue, and a great nation is peculiarly susceptible to the idea that its power is a sign of God's favor.

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

Rhetoric is a poor substitute for action, and we have trusted only to rhetoric. If we are really to be a great nation, we must not merely talk; we must act big.

Great nations need organizing principles, and 'Don't do stupid stuff' is not an organizing principle.

I am concerned for the security of our great Nation; not so much because of any threat from without, but because of the insidious forces working from within.

I can recall no parallel in history where a great nation recently at war has so distinguished its former enemy commander.

Truly it has been said that there is nothing new under the sun, _x000D_ for knowledge is revealed and is submerged again, even as a nation rises and falls. _x000D_ Here is a system, tested throughout the ages, but lost again and again by ignorance or prejudice, _x000D_ in the same way that great nations have risen and fallen _x000D_ and been lost to history beneath the desert sands and in the ocean depths.

Tell me, why is the media here so negative? Why are we in India so embarrassed to recognize our own strengths, our achievements? We are such a great nation. We have so many amazing success stories but we refuse to acknowledge them. Why?.

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 it.He considers those who point out his faultsas his most benevolent teachers.He thinks of his enemyas the shadow that he himself casts.

Great nations write their autobiographies in three manuscripts - the book of their deeds, the book of their words and the book of their art.

Great countries are those that produce great people.

There is no calamity which a great nation can invite which equals that which follows a supine submission to wrong and injustice

Govern a great nation as you would cook a small fish. Do not overdo it.