There is no such thing as a little country. The greatness of a people is no more determined by their numbers than the greatness of a man is by his height. (Victor Hugo)

There is no such thing as a little country. The greatness of a people is no more determined by their numbers than the greatness of a man is by his height.

Victor Hugo

Related topics

country greatness height man numbers people thing

Related quotes

Man, unlike any other thing organic or inorganic in the universe, grows beyond his work, walks up the stairs of his concepts, and emerges ahead of his accomplishments. View quote
John Steinbeck
An intellectual is a man who says a simple thing in a difficult way; an artist is a man who says a difficult thing in a simple way. View quote
Charles Bukowski
When the eyes say one thing, and the tongue another, a practiced man relies on the language of the first. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Everything can be taken from a man or a woman but one thing: the last of human freedoms to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way. View quote
Viktor Frankl
It is the desire of the good people of the whole country that sectionalism as a factor in our politics should disappear. View quote
Rutherford B. Hayes