Donald Trump Quotes

The belief in American exceptionalism has vanished with the end of empire, the weakening of power, the loss of faith in America’s future.

Predictions of America’s decline are as old as the republic. But they perform a critical function in driving the kind of renewal that is required of each generation of Americans….as long as we’re worried about the future, the future will be better.

I, for one, will be convinced that the Canada we know and love will be gone forever. But, then, Thucydides wrote that Themistocles' greatness lay in the fact that he realized Athens was not immortal. I think we have to realize that Canada is not immortal; but, if it is going to go, let it go with a bang rather than a whimper.

I can't bear Britain in decline. I just can't.

Join me in taking back our country and creating a bright, glorious, and prosperous new future for our people. We will make America great again, and it will happen quickly.

Let's give some substance to patriotism. It may take a generation.

Donald Trump has a mantra of despair, of loss. He says we don't have victories anymore. We used to have victories, but we don't. And he says the American dream is dead.

We have to straighten out our country; we have to make our country great again, and we need energy and enthusiasm.

I believe the future of our country can be really great.

I think America has a brilliant future.

Traditionalists are pessimists about the future and optimists about the past.

Everything I have done has been wasted. In another 20 years France will be dead.

Resuscitation will not be promoted by recrimination. The distrust of the present will not be relieved by a distrust of the future. A patriot makes a better citizen than a pessimist. And we have got to be patient.

You, gentlemen, are in need of great upheavals; we are in need of Great Russia

The nation which is satisfied is lost. The nation which is not progressive is retrograding.

As far as we can look back into history, the downfall of any nation can be traced from the moment that nation became timid about spending its best blood.

We need to think forward and keep making America greater. Not that old America, again.

America is never great. America is great in what it can be, which is the American dream.

'Tis pride that pulls the country down.

I am proud that for the first time in the history of Afghanistan, I am raising the flag of such a people, who are producing all material and immaterial equipment necessary for the life in this country and who make all efforts for prosperity and serendipity of the society. This glorious and magnificent red flag is the symbol of the greatness and pride of these people.

You could not be born at a better period than the present, when we have lost everything.

I am going to make America great.

We should be breaking down barriers not building walls. We're not going to succeed by dividing this country between us and them. You know, to be great, we can't be small. We can't lose what made America great in the first place.

Margaret Thatcher - a woman I greatly admire - once said that she was not content to manage the decline of a great nation. Neither am I. I am prepared to lead the resurgence of a great nation.

I don't know what the future holds. It seems to be going in a really bad, bad place really quickly, and I don't have the answers and I don't have the solutions and I don't know what's gonna happen to change it. But the continued apathy will only lead to a worse situation for everybody.