Thomas Huxley Quotes

Size is not grandeur, and territory does not make a nation.

This generation of Americans has a rendezvous with destiny.

We have the most glorious purposes of any nation in history.

... My firm conviction [is] that it is the force of ideas rather than the impact of material things that made us a great nation. It is my conviction, too, that only the power of ideas, of enduring values, can keep us a great nation. For where there is not vision the people perish

We have become a great nation, forced by the fact of its greatness into relations with the other nations of the earth.

A nation cannot be truly great without a moral compass.

The German countryside must be preserved under all circumstances, for it is and has forever been the source of strength and greatness of our people.

There's nothing wrong with loving your country. There's nothing wrong with caring about who gets into your country. There's nothing wrong about wanting your country to be great. There's nothing wrong with thinking that the country comes before the world. There's nothing wrong at all, and that's been wrong in the past and we're gonna make it right. We're gonna love America, we're gonna unify, we're gonna make America great again.

Any number of depraved units cannot form a great nation.

It is by no means necessary that a great nation should always stand at the heroic level. But no nation has the root of greatness in it unless in time of need it can rise to the heroic mood.

It wants to be, and proclaims itself to be, 'the greatest', but greatness is not required of a country; only goodness is.

A nation's greatness is measured not just by its gross national product or military power, but by the strength of its devotion to the principles and values that bind its people and define their character.

What sort of love is this love that we have for countries? What sort of country is it that will ever live up to our dreams? What sort of dreams were these that have been broken? Isn't the greatness of great nations directly proportionate to their ability to be ruthless, genocidal? Doesn't the height of a country's 'success' usually also mark the depths of its moral failure?

The British are special. The world knows it. In our innermost thoughts we know it. This is the greatest nation on earth.

Let us pick up again these lost strands and weave them again into the fabric of America, sort out the music from the sounds and again respond to the trumpet and the steady drum.

I have one love - Canada; one purpose - Canada's greatness; one aim - Canadian unity from the Atlantic to the Pacific.

If we only have great companies, we will merely have a prosperous society, not a great one. Economic growth and power are the means, not the definition, of a great nation.

Diversity hasn't a thing to do with why this country is great. Diversity is not a factor in any way when defining or explaining America's greatness.

Anything which elevates the mind is sublime. Greatness of matter, space, power, virtue or beauty, are all sublime.

I'm a Christian. I believe that greatness has to do with the quality of love shown to the least of thy brethren and the quality of service to those who are catching hell. When you look at it in that sense, I'd say America has had great moments, but I wouldn't call it a great nation. I don't think there have been any great nations in the history of the world, because in every nation you find poor people being subjugated. So, I see the term "great nation" as a contradiction, as an oxymoron.

...the true greatness of a nation is founded on principles of humanity.

If America is to be great in the future, it will be if we understand that our source is not civic and temporal, but our source is godly and eternal.

We are a great country, and whatever choice we make we will still be great. But I believe the choice is between being an even greater Britain inside a reformed EU or a great leap into the unknown.

I love America. It's got potential to be great again. But, really, it's not great right now.