Why should any country continue, forever, to be "great"?

Life can't be all bad when for ten dollars you can buy all the Beethoven sonatas and listen to them for ten years.

If you had a European prime minister who experienced what we've experienced it would be expected that he would retire or resign.

He was a conservative all right, but invariably he gave the impression that he was a conservative because he was surrounded by liberals; that he had been a revolutionist if that had been required in order to be socially disruptive.

The police can't use clubs or gas or dogs. I suppose they will have to use poison ivy.

The majority of the senior class of Vassar does not desire my company and I must confess, having read specimens of their thought and sentiments, that I do not desire the company of the majority of the senior class of Vassar.

Why should any country continue, forever, to be "great"?