Sentences with phrase «national greatness»

His conception of national greatness rested on faith in the creative energies of the American people rather than in their government.

Now their laser - like focus on the pursuit of national greatness has not changed, what has changed is that their assessment of what it will take has.

Bhutan conforms better than any other modern state to my criteria for national greatness: a sane way of life, a thriving ecology, civilized aesthetic and ethical principles, an absolute prohibition on strip malls, and general harmlessness.

Utopian fantasies and exaggerated dreams of national greatness agitated millions in the twentieth century, providing legitimacy to communist and fascist regimes.

Rather, I present myself as one with the required knowledge, understanding, competence and, above all, the political will to coordinate the human and material resources that we have in abundance to achieve national greatness.

Colleges and universities were hailed as the well from which national greatness flowed, and a bachelor's degree was seen as an admission ticket to the highest levels of government, commerce, and the arts.

Many Harlem residents are asking that question, as the neighborhood loses its reputation as a place where black leaders are groomed for national greatness.

They discovered and refined potent themes about keeping out immigrants, «draining the swamp» and restoring an earlier era of national greatness — as understood mainly to mean for white American men.

That biblical vision helped form the bedrock convictions of the American idea: that government stood under the judgment of divine and natural law; that government was limited in its reach into human affairs, especially the realm of conscience; that national greatness was measured by fidelity to the moral truths taught by revelation and inscribed in the world by a demanding yet merciful God; that only a virtuous people could be truly free.

To the slave, Douglass told his white audience, «your celebration is a sham; your boasted liberty, an unholy license; your national greatness, swelling vanity; your sounds of rejoicing are empty and heartless; your shouts of liberty and equality, hollow mock; your prayers and hymns, your sermons and thanksgivings, with all...

Most of the Jews were looking for a messiah who would restore their national greatness and sit again on the throne of David; others were looking for a messiah, as described in Daniel and in the apocalyptic books written between the Testaments, who would descend from heaven with great glory to judge the earth.

But the key to this view is that national greatness, of the sort you can obtain with the greatest policies, is more important than political liberty.

The key to national greatness, on this view, is policy greatness.

This volume by Matthew Spalding and Patrick J. Garrity shows the extent to which George Washington tied personal character to national greatness - and thereby made himself the most Aristotelian of the Founders.

They discovered and refined potent themes about keeping out immigrants, «draining the swamp» and restoring an earlier era of national greatness — as understood mainly to mean for white American men.