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Fortune, which has a great deal of power in other matters but especially in war, can bring about great changes in a situation through very slight forces.

Material possessions, winning scores, and great reputations are meaningless in the eyes of the Lord, because He knows what we really are and that is all that matters.

I don't feel we did wrong in taking this great country away from them. There were great numbers of people who needed new land, and the Indians were selfishly trying to keep it for themselves.

Well, I have great respect for Senator Hirono.

I look forward to a great future for America - a future in which our country will match its military strength with our moral restraint, its wealth with our wisdom, its power with our purpose.

This Sunday School has been of help to me, greater perhaps than any other force in my Christian life, and I can ask no better things for you than that you, and all that shall come after you in this great band of workers for Christ, shall receive the same measure of blessedness which I have been permitted to have.

The greatest mistake we make is living in constant fear that we will make one.

Growth is the great separator between those who succeed and those who do not. When I see a person beginning to separate themselves from the pack, it's almost always due to personal growth.

You say that you are my judge; I do not know if you are; but take good heed not to judge me ill, because you would put yourself in great peril.

Whoever renders service to many puts himself in line for greatness - great wealth, great return, great satisfaction, great reputation, and great joy.

Behind every great man is a woman rolling her eyes.

The great responsibility that we have today is to put the poor and the near poor back on front of the American agenda.

There's great disparity between who goes to college and who goes to jail. Who lives long and who dies prematurely, is the defining issue of our time. And I submit to you, there's a significant race dimension, it is basically class-driven.

Great things happen in small places. Jesus was born in Bethlehem. Jesse Jackson was born in Greenville.

We have to judge politicians by their cumulative score. In one innings they make a great catch, in another they drop the ball. In one they score a home run, in another they strike out. But it is their cumulative batting average that we are interested in.

However great a man's natural talent may be, the act of writing cannot be learned all at once.

In Republics, the great danger is, that the majority may not sufficiently respect the rights of the minority.

As usual, there is a great woman behind every idiot.

The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie, deliberate, contrived and dishonest, but the myth, persistent, persuasive and unrealistic.

The great advantage about telling the truth is that nobody ever believes it.