National Power Quotes

American power remains today what it was in the Second World War and the Cold War: the greatest force for freedom in the world.

There is no power on earth that can undo Pakistan

The nation is a power hard to rouse, but when roused harder still and more hopeless to resist.

We are the most powerful nation on earth. No external power, no terrorist organization, can defeat us. But we can defeat ourselves by getting caught in a quagmire.

if anyone asks me what I think the chief cause of the extraordinary prosperity and growing power of this nation [America], I should answer that it is due to the superiority of their women.

When the economies of countries grow, their militaries generally do as well.

Shall we be defenseless America, a weak and harmless nation, or shall we be defensive America, the fear and dread of all nations?

My entire life was dedicated to defeating communism. I felt really great when Ronald Reagan helped us establish peace and the elimination of communism from Russia. We are now dealing with a national power, and, you know, it is a big power in the world. It's no longer being motivated by communist ideology that has it trying to overthrow democratic governments and replace them with atheistic communist dictatorships.

The nation who has never admitted a chapter of morality into her political code,... will boldly avow that whatever power she can make hers is hers of right

There is a limitation upon the ability of the U. S. to solve these problems [of foreign policy].

A great nation should have only two great objectives before its eyes, principles and force.

Disunion and civil war are at hand; and yet I fear disunion and war less than compromise. We can recover from them. The free States alone, if we must go on alone, will make a glorious nation. Twenty millions in the temperate zone, stretching from the Atlantic to the Pacific, full of vigor, industry, inventive genius, educated, and moral; increasing by immigration rapidly, and, above all, free--all free--will form a confederacy of twenty States scarcely inferior in real power to the unfortunate Union of thirty-three States which we had on the first of November.

Are wars anything but the means whereby a nation is nourished, whereby it is strengthened, whereby it is buttressed?

The nation is too brave, too strong, too powerful, and too just to engage in an unrighteous and precipitate war.

With a nation, as with a boxer, one of the greatest assurances of safety is to add reach to power.

England's battles, it used to be said, were won on the playing fields of Eaton.... America’s battles can be won on the assembly lines of Detroit.

Weak countries always exaggerate their power.

Anyone who has seen the auto factories in Detroit and the oil fields in Texas knows that Japan lacks the national power for a naval race with America.

The more I see, hear, and think in Europe, the more I wish for every measure that can ensure to the United States dignity, power, and public confidence.

Power tends to confuse itself with virtue, and a great nation is particularly susceptible to the idea that its power is a sign of God's favor.

Never believe that technology alone will allow America to prevail as a superpower.

The House of Representatives is the center of power of the most powerful nation in the world.

What really matters for great powers is power—national economic and military strength—and that speaks loudly and clearly for itself.

Democrats hate America being a world power because world power gives power to the nation instead of to Democrats.

The Riches or Strength of a Nation consists in the Number of its Inhabitants