“The glory of this land has been its capacity for transcending the moral evils of our past. For example, the long struggle of minority citizens for equal rights, once a source of disunity and civil war, is now a point of pride for all Americans. We must never go back. There is no room for racism, anti-Semitism, or other forms of ethnic and racial hatred in this country.”
Ronald Reagan
“A dying people tolerates the present, rejects the future, and finds its satisfactions in past greatness and half remembered glory”
John Steinbeck
“Land of Hope and Glory, Mother of the Free, / How shall we extol thee, who are born of thee? / Wider still and wider shall thy bounds be set; / God who made thee mighty, make thee mightier yet.”
Arthur Christopher Benson
“We should face reality and our past mistakes in an honest, adult way. Boasting of glory does not make glory, and singing in the dark does not dispel fear.”
King Hussein
“Surely his salvation is nigh them that fear him; that glory may dwell in our land.”
Bible
“Britain's gnawing hunger for retrospection is of Proustian proportions; historical confections of past glory are always being sugared up and nibbled at somewhere in the land.”
Francis X. Clines
“The greater the challenge, the greater the glory.”
Lorrin L. Lee
