Quotes on Greatest Man

The great city is that which has the greatest man or woman: if it be a few ragged huts, it is still the greatest city in the whole world.

The President hears a hundred voices telling him that he is the greatest man in the world. He must listen carefully indeed to hear the one voice that tells him his is not.

The work of many of the greatest men, inspired by duty, has been done amidst suffering and trial and difficulty. They have struggled against the tide, and reached the shore exhausted.

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

The greatest man in history was the poorest.

To hold power has always meant to manipulate idiots and circumstances; and those circumstances and those idiots, tossed together, bring about those coincidences to which even the greatest men confess they owe most of their fame