Based on all criteria - military power, economic influence, cultural dominance - America remains number one, even though other, new players are increasingly challenging it in that role.
It is wonderful how much time good people spend fighting the devil. If they would only expend the same amount of energy loving their fellow men, the devil would die in his own tracks of ennui.
M. Russell Ballard, Clergyman (1928) |
Rona Barrett, Journalist (1936) |
Nick Cannon, Musician (1980) |
Lord Caradon, Diplomat (1907) |
David Carradine, Actor (1936) |
Matt Damon, Actor (1970) |
William Allen Egan, Politician (1914) |
Jim Elliot, Clergyman (1927) |
John W. Gardner, Educator (1912) |
Gus Hall, Businessman (1910) |
Vittorio Alfieri, Dramatist (1803) |
Jacques Derrida, Philosopher (2004) |
Henry Fielding, Novelist (1754) |
John Hancock, Politician (1793) |
Gus Kahn, (1941) |
Fernando Lamas, Actor (1982) |