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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.

Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.

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 is only money... they do not know how to enjoy it, because they have no imagination.

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.

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.

Pray that your loneliness may spur you into finding something to live for, great enough to die for.

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.

I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure.

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.

The greatest humiliation in life, is to work hard on something from which you expect great appreciation, and then fail to get it.

Only passions, great passions can elevate the soul to great things.

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.

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.

If you listen to your fears, you will die never knowing what a great person you might have been.

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.

Do not wait for extraordinary opportunities. Seize common occasions and make them great. Weak men wait for opportunities strong men make them.

Great dancers are not great because of their technique, they are great because of their passion.

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.

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.

I believe the first test of a truly great man is in his humility.