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.
Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex, the ugly ones included.
I have come to believe that a great teacher is a great artist and that there are as few as there are any other great artists. Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit.
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.
To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream not only plan, but also believe.
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.
Fishes live in the sea, as men do a-land the great ones eat up the little ones.
The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie, deliberate, contrived and dishonest, but the myth, persistent, persuasive and unrealistic.
The Creator has not thought proper to mark those in the forehead who are of stuff to make good generals. We are first, therefore, to seek them blindfold, and then let them learn the trade at the expense of great losses.
Trust men and they will be true to you treat them greatly and they will show themselves great.
Faith, there hath been many great men that have flattered the people who ne'er loved them.
I am concerned for the security of our great Nation not so much because of any threat from without, but because of the insidious forces working from within.
The great danger for family life, in the midst of any society whose idols are pleasure, comfort and independence, lies in the fact that people close their hearts and become selfish.
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.
Great ambition is the passion of a great character. Those endowed with it may perform very good or very bad acts. All depends on the principles which direct them.
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.
I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.
There have been many great men that have flattered the people who ne'er loved them.
Presents don't really mean much to me. I don't want to sound mawkish, but - it was the realization that I have a great many people in my life who really love me, and who I really love.
Only he can take great resolves who has indomitable faith in God and has fear of God.
I'd rather attempt to do something great and fail than to attempt to do nothing and succeed.
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.
Now that the House of Commons is trying to become useful, it does a great deal of harm.
There are no great limits to growth because there are no limits of human intelligence, imagination, and wonder.
The salesman knows nothing of what he is selling save that he is charging a great deal too much for it.
Death comes to all, but great achievements build a monument which shall endure until the sun grows cold.
Enthusiasm is the mother of effort, and without it nothing great was ever achieved.
Great men are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any material force - that thoughts rule the world.
A man's work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened.
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.