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.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Great countries are those that produce great people.
Nations, great nations have limitations. All nations have limitations. Even great powers have limitations.
Nations have always good reasons for being what they are, and the best of all is that they cannot be otherwise.
Nations have their ego, just like individuals.
The great nations have always acted like gangsters, and the small nations like prostitutes.
America is exceptional in combining standard great-power realism with extravagant idealism about the country's redemptive role in creating international order.
No nation is so great as to be able to afford, in the long run, to remain outside an increasingly universal League of Nations.
The great men of power who seek to change the nations they belong to usually are pretty terrible people.
There was never a nation great until it came to the knowledge that it had nowhere in the world to go for help.
The great men of a nation reach out to all mankind. They are unifying, not divisive; internationally conciliating and still great nationally.