France will always be a great nation.

Ultimately a great nation is a compassionate nation.

It is possible for great nations to rot from within.

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

Great nations don't have to remind others of their greatness. They merely have to be great.

History is not reassuring on the subject of the longevity of seemingly lasting great nations, is it?

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

Nations, great nations have limitations. All nations have limitations. Even great powers have limitations.

Great economies and great nations, prosperity, and abundance of nations and communities are created by men and not spirits.

I dream of an India that is prosperous, strong and caring. An India, that regains a place of honour in the comity of great nations.

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

We say arts education is good for general education, but that's not the point. The arts are what great nations are remembered for. They are a mirror.

Surely, God on high has not refused to give us enough wisdom to find ways to bring us an improvement in relations between the two great nations on earth.

By the end of World War II, we were the most powerful and least damaged of the great nations. We also had most of the money. America's hegemony lasted exactly five years.

Keeping small nations enslaved because of the deals between the great nations or because of any pragmatic considerations that might have been there are totally unacceptable.

Great nations are simply the operating fronts of behind-the-scenes, vastly ambitious individuals who had become so effectively powerful because of their ability to remain invisible while operating behind the national scenery.

Peking welcomed me with tremendous parades and gun salutes. The people with me are proud of me, proud that our downtrodden country has taken its place among the great nations. And now, people of America, I ask you, why didn't Eisenhower accord me the same respect?

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