There was never a nation great until it came to the knowledge that it had nowhere in the world to go for help.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
A nation cannot be truly great without a moral compass.
No nation is so great as to be able to afford, in the long run, to remain outside an increasingly universal League of Nations.
There has never been any country at every moment so virtuous and so wise that it has not sometimes needed to be saved from itself.
Nations have always good reasons for being what they are, and the best of all is that they cannot be otherwise.
If we want a great nation, we have to change it ourselves.
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.
We are not being arrogant or complacent when we are said that our country, as a united nation, has never in its entire history, enjoyed such a confluence of encouraging possibilities.
Were there none who were discontented with what they have, the world would never reach anything better.
A good government remains the greatest of human blessings and no nation has ever enjoyed it.
No nation ever taxed itself into prosperity.