Germany has reduced savagery to a science, and this great war for the victorious peace of justice must go on until the German cancer is cut clean out of the world body. Theodore Roosevelt
Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand. Plato
The reason we have poverty is that we have no imagination. There are a great many people accumulating what they think is vast wealth, but it's only money... they don't know how to enjoy it, because they have no imagination. Alan Watts
America's fighting men and women sacrifice much to ensure that our great nation stays free. We owe a debt of gratitude to the soldiers that have paid the ultimate price for this cause, as well as for those who are blessed enough to return from the battlefield unscathed. Allen Boyd
No one in this world has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people. Nor has anyone ever lost public office thereby. H. L. Mencken
Pray that your loneliness may spur you into finding something to live for, great enough to die for. Dag Hammarskjold
Ignorance of all things is an evil neither terrible nor excessive, nor yet the greatest of all but great cleverness and much learning, if they be accompanied by a bad training, are a much greater misfortune. Plato
I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure. Clarence Darrow
There are events which are so great that if a writer has participated in them his obligation is to write truly rather than assume the presumption of altering them with invention. Ernest Hemingway
The greatest humiliation in life, is to work hard on something from which you expect great appreciation, and then fail to get it. E. W. Howe
Only passions, great passions can elevate the soul to great things. Denis Diderot
The Great Depression, like most other periods of severe unemployment, was produced by government mismanagement rather than by any inherent instability of the private economy. Milton Friedman
Those who intend on becoming great should love neither themselves nor their own things, but only what is just, whether it happens to be done by themselves or others. Plato
If you listen to your fears, you will die never knowing what a great person you might have been. Robert H. Schuller
What's right about America is that although we have a mess of problems, we have great capacity - intellect and resources - to do some thing about them. Henry Ford
Don't wait for extraordinary opportunities. Seize common occasions and make them great. Weak men wait for opportunities strong men make them. Orison Swett Marden
Great dancers are not great because of their technique, they are great because of their passion. Martha Graham
Of course, to have money is just great because you can do what you think is important to you. I always was a rich person because money's not related to happiness. Paulo Coelho
There are two powers in the world one is the sword and the other is the pen. There is a great competition and rivalry between the two. There is a third power stronger than both, that of the women. Muhammad Ali Jinnah
I believe the first test of a truly great man is in his humility. John Ruskin