The great men of a nation reach out to all mankind. They are unifying, not divisive; internationally conciliating and still great nationally.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
By a great man, however, we mean a man who, because of his spiritual gifts, his character, and other qualities, deserves to be called great and who as a result earns the power to influence others.
Nothing great will ever be achieved without great men, and men are great only if they are determined to be so.
The greatest man is he who forms the taste of a nation; the next greatest is he who corrupts it.
A nation is a totality of men united through community of fate into a community of character.
It is true that men themselves made this world of nations... but this world without doubt has issued from a mind often diverse, at times quite contrary, and always superior to the particular ends that men had proposed to themselves.
No man is truly great who is great only in his lifetime. The test of greatness is the page of history.
No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men.
The greatest men of a nation are those it puts to death.
The great men of power who seek to change the nations they belong to usually are pretty terrible people.
Great nations are simply the operating fronts of behind-the-scenes, vastly ambitious individuals who had become so effectively powerful because of their ability to remain invisible while operating behind the national scenery.