“I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened.”
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“Until the great mass of the people shall be filled with the sense of responsibility for each other's welfare, social justice can never be attained.”
“A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.”
“These are not dark days: these are great days - the greatest days our country has ever lived.”
“It is for us to pray not for tasks equal to our powers, but for powers equal to our tasks, to go forward with a great desire forever beating at the door of our hearts as we travel toward our distant goal.”
“The great defense against the air menace is to attack the enemy's aircraft as near as possible to their point of departure.”
“Man becomes great exactly in the degree in which he works for the welfare of his fellow-men.”
“I always seem to get inspiration and renewed vitality by contact with this great novel land of yours which sticks up out of the Atlantic.”
“Instead of comparing our lot with that of those who are more fortunate than we are, we should compare it with the lot of the great majority of our fellow men. It then appears that we are among the privileged.”
“Fishes live in the sea, as men do a-land; the great ones eat up the little ones.”
“Trust men and they will be true to you treat them greatly and they will show themselves great.”
“Too often the great decisions are originated and given form in bodies made up wholly of men, or so completely dominated by them that whatever of special value women have to offer is shunted aside without expression.”
“Just as a man would not cherish living in a body other than his own, so do nations not like to live under other nations, however noble and great the latter may be.”
“There have been many great men that have flattered the people who ne'er loved them.”
“I believe in the fundamental truth of all great religions of the world.”
“Now that the House of Commons is trying to become useful, it does a great deal of harm.”
“I call upon the scientific community in our country, those who gave us nuclear weapons, to turn their great talents now to the cause of mankind and world peace: to give us the means of rendering these nuclear weapons impotent and obsolete.”
“A great empire, like a great cake, is most easily diminished at the edges.”
“There never was a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous.”
“It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous.”
“Pain and foolishness lead to great bliss and complete knowledge, for Eternal Wisdom created nothing under the sun in vain.”
“Surrealism had a great effect on me because then I realised that the imagery in my mind wasn't insanity. Surrealism to me is reality.”
“Great hearts steadily send forth the secret forces that incessantly draw great events.”
“A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one.”