WHEN YOU HAVE MEN WHO ARE READY TO SACRIFICE THEIR EVERYTHING FOR THEIR COUNTRY, SINCERE TO THE BACKBONE - WHEN SUCH MEN ARISE, INDIA WILL BECOME GREAT IN EVERY RESPECT.

Q: "What is the key to Japan's sudden greatness?"

Swamiji: "The faith of the Japanese in themselves, and their love for their country. When you have men who are ready to sacrifice their everything for their country, sincere to the backbone — when such men arise, India will become great in every respect. It is the men that make the country! What is there in the country? If you catch the social morality and the political morality of the Japanese, you will be as great as they are. The Japanese are ready to sacrifice everything for their country, and they have become a great people. But you are not; you cannot be, you sacrifice everything only for your own families and possessions."

- Swami Vivekananda
THE ABROAD AND THE PROBLEMS AT HOME
 (The Hindu, Madras, February, 1897)