Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery, of party, faction, and division of society.
John Adams

Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak.
John Adams

For there is no one so great or mighty that he can avoid the misery that will rise up against him when he resists and strives against God.
John Calvin

Man has two great spiritual needs. One is for forgiveness. The other is for goodness.
Billy Graham

From success you get a lot of things, but not that great inside thing that love brings you.
Samuel Goldwyn

I have great faith in fools; self-confidence my friends call it.
Edgar Allan Poe

To vilify a great man is the readiest way in which a little man can himself attain greatness.
Edgar Allan Poe

Death will be a great relief. No more interviews.
Katharine Hepburn

Nothing is so great an example of bad manners as flattery. If you flatter all the company, you please none; If you flatter only one or two, you offend the rest.
Jonathan Swift

Interest is the spur of the people, but glory that of great souls. Invention is the talent of youth, and judgment of age.
Jonathan Swift

Everyone has inside of him a piece of good news. The good news is that you don't know how great you can be! How much you can love! What you can accomplish! And what your potential is!
Anne Frank

In principle the great religions of the world do not differ as much as they appear to.
Ernest Holmes

A great country worthy of the name does not have any friends.
Charles de Gaulle

Nothing great will ever be achieved without great men, and men are great only if they are determined to be so.
Charles de Gaulle

The great leaders have always stage-managed their effects.
Charles de Gaulle

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.
Karl Marx

On a level plain, simple mounds look like hills; and the insipid flatness of our present bourgeoisie is to be measured by the altitude of its great intellects.
Karl Marx

When we recall the past, we usually find that it is the simplest things - not the great occasions - that in retrospect give off the greatest glow of happiness.
Bob Hope

How great are the dangers I face to win a good name in Athens.
Alexander the Great

After great pain, a formal feeling comes. The Nerves sit ceremonious, like tombs.
Emily Dickinson