Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.
| NUMBER: | 51 |
| AUTHOR: | Thomas Henry Huxley (1825–95) |
| QUOTATION: | I cannot say that I am in the slightest degree impressed by your bigness, or your material resources, as such. Size is not grandeur, and territory does not make a nation. The great issue, about which hangs true sublimity, and the terror of overhanging fate, is what are you going to do with all these things? |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey used the same words in a commencement address at the Holton-Arms School, Bethesda, Maryland, June 1967.—The Washington Post, June 11, 1967, p. K3. |
| SUBJECTS: | America |