“The great nations have always acted like gangsters, and the small nations like prostitutes.”
“Nations, like individuals, have been always disposed from interest or vanity to forget their day of small things; like individuals, too, they have always been unwilling to isolate their origins from the great ones who have gone before.”
“Nations, like families, have great men only in spite of themselves.”
“How can a nation be called great if its bread tastes like kleenex?”
“A great nation is like a great man...He thinks of his enemy as the shadow that he himself casts.”
“The happiest women, like the happiest nations, have no history.”