The great person is ahead of their time the smart make something out of it and the blockhead sets themselves against it.
King Louis Philippe once said to me that he attributed the great success of the British nation in political life to their talking politics after dinner.
Great minds are to make others great. Their superiority is to be used not to break the multitude to intellectual vassalage not to establish over them a spiritual tyranny but to rouse them from lethargy and to aid them to judge for themselves.
Our actions seem to have their lucky and unlucky stars to which a great part of that blame and that commendation is due which is given to the actions themselves.
Those that have had great passions esteem themselves for the rest of their lives fortunate and unfortunate in being cured of them.
The great secret of doctors known only to their wives but still hidden from the public is that most things get better by themselves most things in fact are better in the morning.
Great men are seldom over-scrupulous in the arrangement of their attire.
Great men are like eagles and build their nest on some lofty solitude.
What distinguishes a great artist from a weak one is first their sensibility and tenderness second their imagination and third their industry.
Men are not great or small because of their material possessions. They are great or small because of what they are.
Moderation has been called a virtue to limit the ambition of great men and to console undistinguished people for their want of fortune and their lack of merit.
The great constitutional corrective in the hands of the people against usurpation of power or corruption by their agents is the right of suffrage and this when used with calmness and deliberation will prove strong enough.
Some people hear their own inner voices with great clearness. And they live by what they hear. Such people become crazy... or they become legend.
The sensitivity of men to small matters and their indifference to great ones indicates a strange inversion.
One great object of the Constitution was to restrain majorities from oppressing minorities or encroaching upon their just rights.
History shows that the majority of people that have done anything great have passed their youth in seclusion.
All who have accomplished great things have had a great aim have fixed their gaze on a goal which was high one which sometimes seemed impossible.
It is a melancholy truth that even great men have their poor relations.
The herd seek out the great not for their sake but for their influence and the great welcome them out of vanity or need.
Motherhood is a great honor and privilege yet it is also synonymous with servanthood. Every day women are called upon to selflessly meet the needs of their families. Whether they are awake at night nursing a baby spending their time and money on less-than-grateful teenagers or preparing meals moms continuously put others before themselves.
Everyone who achieves success in a great venture solves each problem as they came to it. They helped themselves. And they were helped through powers known and unknown to them at the time they set out on their voyage. They keep going regardless of the obstacles they met.
The willow which bends to the tempest often escapes better than the oak which resists it and so in great calamities it sometimes happens that light and frivolous spirits recover their elasticity and presence of mind sooner than those of a loftier character.
On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.
The principles that made this nation a great and powerful leader of the world have not lost their meaning. They never will. We know we can bring this country back. I'm Mitt Romney. I believe in America. And I'm running for president of the United States.