“…Small countries are no less concerned with retaining their national and political identity than Great Powers. The Uprising was a spontaneous outburst of the Hungarian people against the intolerable oppression of tyrannical and largely alien rule, and for the cause of national freedom. …”

“…Alongside Europe's better-known stories - human, national and international - he examines subjects often spurned or neglected - Europe's stateless nations, for example, as well as the nation-states and great powers, and the minority groups from heretics and lepers to Romanies, Jews, and Muslims. …”

“…The reference to a Great Power coming across the throat of the British Commonwealth was no more auspicious. …”

“…The IFTU cannot forget that the situation [state of affairs] to which the great Powers are hastening to adjust themselves is entirely due to their passivity in face of the aggression carried on by the two great Fascist Powers against a people of which the majority had freely chosen for themselves - a regime and a government in conformity with their national outlook. …”

“…Even in this time of unparalleled stress and anxiety we make an earnest appeal to you to consider whether you can use your great power through diplomatic channels so that clemency may be shown by the Courts In their Judgment of this case. …”

“…Contrasting the experiences of five great powers (Britain, France, Germany, the USA and Japan) during five periods of technological and industrial leadership, from the Industrial Revolution to the beginning of the twenty-first century, the book draws on historical and comparative methods to draw causal inferences about international progress and leadership. …”

“…It is true that he added that this policy rested on the main agreement and co-operation between the Great Powers that emerged from the War. It had always been a cardinal point with many socialists, inside as well as outside the Labour Party, that the Churchill Government, in seeking to restore the Kings, capitalists, and colonies of 1939, was following a line which they hated and would alter if they could. …”

“…If they cling to the Empire, they will clash with one rival Great Power, Russia, and only get the other's, U.S.A.'s, help, at the price of obeying her orders. …”

“…The General Council issues an urgent appeal to the conscience of all forces in the world which stand on the side of freedom, democracy and peace, to prevent Spain - which has given such a magnificent example of self-sacrifice for the cause of humanity - being sacrificed in the egoistical national or imperialist interests of the Great Powers. Public opinion in all countries which remain free should rise up with overwhelming energy against any attempt to impose a solution of force on the Spanish people from outside. …”

“…This Council, with its planning perspective and objective, may be possessed of great powers and influence later on, and true representation of all Health Workers hear, elected from democratic organisations, is the crucial question in its composition. …”

“…The extent of the Minister's powers made even the Socialist Lord Chancellor gasp: "I concede at once," said Lord Jowitt during the House of Lords debate on the second reading, "that the Minister of Health under this Bill does have very great powers. He is in the position of a Commander-in-Chief planning a campaign ... it is inevitable that he should ... see that the administration is as he desires it.…”

“…As each day ends with the missiles resting on their launching pads, the danger is so much greater that the next will witness the outbreak, by accident or design, of a suicidal nuclear war. [] The political heads of the great Powers solemnly declare that all-out thermonuclear war is unthinkable. …”