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“The greatest man is he who chooses right with the most invincible resolution; who resists to sorest temptation from within and without; who bears the heaviest burdens cheerfully; who is calmest in storms, and most fearless under menaces and frowns; whose reliance on truth, on virtue, and on God is most unfaltering.”

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Author:Seneca the Younger

“In this country kings or dukes don't amount to nothing. The greatest man around then was Franklin D. Roosevelt, and he was the President; so I started calling Lester the President. It got shortened to Pres.”

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Author:Billie Holiday

“Calvin Coolidge was the greatest man who ever came out of Plymouth Corner, Vermont.”

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Author:Clarence Darrow

“It is India that gave us the ingenious method of expressing all numbers by means of ten symbols, each symbol receiving a value of position as well as an absolute value; a profound and important idea which appears so simple to us now that we ignore its true merit. But its very simplicity and the great ease which it has lent to computations put our arithmetic in the first rank of useful inventions; and we shall appreciate the grandeur of the achievement the more when we remember that it escaped the genius of Archimedes and Apollonius, two of the greatest men produced by antiquity.”

“In my idea General Washington is the greatest man; for I look upon him as the most virtuous.”

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Author:Marquis de Lafayette

“I lost two of the greatest men I've ever known to assassination - and a son to suicide.”

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Author:Pierre Salinger

“Of all the people on Earth, the prefect and the greatest Man prayed.”

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Author:Joseph Prince

“If he does that, he will be the greatest man in the world.”

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Author:George III

“Rocks whereon greatest men have oftest wreck'd.”

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Book:The Poetical Works of John Milton: With Notes of Various Authors; and with Some Account of the Life and Writings of Milton, Derived Principally from Original Documents in Her Majesty's State-paper Office

Source: The Poetical Works of John Milton: With Notes of Various Authors; and with Some Account of the Life and Writings of Milton, Derived Principally from Original Documents in Her Majesty's State-paper Office

“I do believe he’s the greatest, but forget about boxing - give that to Joe Louis, or somebody - I believe he’s one of the greatest men I’ve ever met.”

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Author:George Foreman

“And I loved Frank Lloyd Wright. I think he was the greatest man I have ever met in my life.”

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Author:Anthony Quinn

“Party loyalty lowers the greatest men to the petty level of the masses.”

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Author:Jean de la Bruyere

“The greatest man is he who forms the taste of a nation; the next greatest is he who corrupts it.”

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Author:Joshua Reynolds

“You will be favourable to Burr, and so must fail because the American reader cannot bear a surprise. He knows that this is the greatest country on earth, Washington the greatest man that ever lived, Burr the wickedest, and evidence to the contrary is not admissible. That means no inconvenient facts, no new information. If you really want the reader's attention, you must flatter him. Make his prejudices your own. Tell him things he already knows. He will love your soundness.”