There have been in this century only one great man and one great thing: Napoleon and liberty. For want of the great man, let us have the great thing.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Nothing great will ever be achieved without great men, and men are great only if they are determined to be so.
In America, we may acknowledge Washington and Lincoln as great men, and probably Franklin and Jefferson and maybe Franklin Delano Roosevelt and possibly even several more, but we would probably disagree about precisely what it was that made them great, what it was that enabled them to give a lasting direction to the course of events.
No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men.
The greatest man is he who forms the taste of a nation; the next greatest is he who corrupts it.
The great men of a nation reach out to all mankind. They are unifying, not divisive; internationally conciliating and still great nationally.
A great man is made up of qualities that meet or make great occasions.
As I looked up at the Statue of Liberty, I thought at that time, 'What a wonderful country.'
To have united the purposes of an entire Nation, is the great historical achievement of the man in whose strong hands our President has placed the fate of our people.
For a man of my generation, our century has been a long intellectual and political struggle in favor of freedom.
No man is truly great who is great only in his lifetime. The test of greatness is the page of history.