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A battle lost or won is easily described, understood, and appreciated, but the moral growth of a great nation requires reflection, as well as observation, to appreciate it. ↗

— Frederick Douglass

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

— Stanley Kubrick

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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. ↗

— Theodore Roosevelt

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

— Lao Tzu

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Those who want to reap the benefits of this great nation must bear the fatigue of supporting it. ↗

— Thomas Paine

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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. ↗

— Mikhail Saakashvili

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Madam Speaker, it is time to halt illegal entry into this country. It is time to halt the flow of illegal drugs and weapons into this great Nation, and it is time to secure our borders. ↗

— Marsha Blackburn

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We all learned in kindergarten that the beginning is a very good place to start. As we have this debate on illegal immigration and illegal entry into this country, let's begin at the very beginning by sealing the borders to this great Nation. ↗

— Marsha Blackburn

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If we are to fulfill the promise of this great Nation that everybody in our society has equal access to the law, obviously having the resources to have access to the law is extremely important. ↗

— Alan Mollohan

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We must always remember that America is a great nation today not because of what government did for people but because of what people did for themselves and for one another. ↗

— Richard M. Nixon

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