Great Quotes

"Our great Republic is a government of laws and not of men. Here, the people rule"

"Our constitution works. Our great republic is a government of laws, not of men"

"He didn't maintain my illusion of myself, he gave me an illusion of myself. Before I met him, I never thought of myself as an actress. Boy, he sidetracked me in a great way!"

Judy Holliday, Actress

"Macbeth is a very popular play with audiences. If you want to sell out a theater, just mount a production of Macbeth. It's a short play, it's an exciting play, it's easy to understand, and it attracts great acting"

Ian Mckellen, Actor

"The Pilgrim and the Puritan whom we honor tonight were men who did a great deal of work in the world. They had their faults and their - shortcomings, but they were not slothful in business and they were most fervent in spirit"

Henry Cabot Lodge, Politician

"Strong, generous, and confident, she has nobly served mankind. Beware how you trifle with your marvellous inheritance, this great land of ordered liberty, for if we stumble and fall freedom and civilization everywhere will go down in ruin"

Henry Cabot Lodge, Politician

"I learn so much from watching films like that with commentary and then when you get to hear another filmmaker talk about their films it's a really great experience"

Jay Roach, Director

"A great poet is the most precious jewel of a nation"

Ludwig van Beethoven, Composer

"If I were John Bolton, I'd take great consolation in the words of my principal supporter on the committee, who gave a ringing endorsement, which was, There is no evidence that he has broken any laws"

Mark Shields, Journalist

"Sam is there, Sam has been playing well, he has been doing great in camp"

Latrell Sprewell, Athlete

"One tends to overlook the fact that all during the 30's and actually during the late 40's I was a highly successful writer and a great many properties accumulated during that period of time"

L. Ron Hubbard, Author

"Markets are designed to allow individuals to look after their private needs and to pursue profit. It's really a great invention and I wouldn't under-estimate the value of that, but they're not designed to take care of social needs"

George Soros, Businessman

"The great men of a nation reach out to all mankind. They are unifying, not divisive; internationally conciliating and still great nationally"

Gustav Stresemann, Politician

"Nothing in the reporting of a nation's history could so mislead the younger generation as to represent great events in such a way that they appear to have happened as a matter of course"

Gustav Stresemann, Politician

"Great joy, especially after a sudden change of circumstances, is apt to be silent, and dwells rather in the heart than on the tongue"

Henry Fielding, Novelist

"The Beatles, the Small Faces and the Kinks were great bands, but that was in the '60s"

Gavin Rossdale, Musician

"Victor Mature was a big man; he had a great swagger. I liked him and I knew we'd be good together on screen"

Esther Williams, Actress

"I heard that people were really interested in the new haircut, which I think is so funny. Great haircut, I really like it. It goes great with the time period. And I was super, super, super-happy to have my bangs swept to the side rather than straight in front of me, which I dealt with for three seasons. I'm very, very much done with that"

Elizabeth Moss, Actress

"I feel so very grateful to have the voice God gave me. It takes a lot of rest and training to sing, and I was lucky that I found a great teacher when I first moved to New York"

Judy Collins, Musician

"I was a very good baseball and football player, but my father always told me I was much more interested in how I looked playing baseball or football than in actually playing. There's great truth in that"

John Malkovich, Actor

"I was brought up in the great tradition of the late nineteenth century: that a writer never complains, never explains and never disdains"

James A. Michener, Novelist

"Comic books and graphic novels are a great medium. It's incredibly underused"

Darren Aronofsky, Director

"The really great writers are people like Emily Bronte who sit in a room and write out of their limited experience and unlimited imagination"

James A. Michener, Novelist

"We have had a great depression in agriculture, caused mainly by several seasons of bad harvests, and some of our traders have suffered much from a too rapid extension in prosperous years"

John Bright, Politician

"Be the measure great or small, let it be honest in every part"

John Bright, Politician

"Any Reform Bill which is worth a moment's thought, or the smallest effort to carry it, must at least double, and it ought to do much more than double, the representation of the metropolitan boroughs and of all the great cities of the United Kingdom"

John Bright, Politician

"The human imagination... has great difficulty in living strictly within the confines of a materialist practice or philosophy. It dreams, like a dog in its basket, of hares in the open"

John Berger, Artist

"Anarchism is the great liberator of man from the phantoms that have held him captive; it is the arbiter and pacifier of the two forces for individual and social harmony"

Emma Goldman, Activist

"Anytime a large, emergency spending bill makes its way through Congress, the potential for mischief is great"

Chris Chocola, Politician

"The great thing about Pete and Peggy's storyline is that you barely have to do anything. There's so much there, so much history, that you can have them exchange a look and it's so loaded. So you honestly don't have to do anything"

Elizabeth Moss, Actress

"Standing, as I believe the United States stands for humanity and civilization, we should exercise every influence of our great country to put a stop to that war which is now raging in Cuba and give to that island once more peace, liberty, and independence"

Henry Cabot Lodge, Politician

"The Constitution is a document that should only be amended with great caution"

Carl Levin, Politician

"Education is not solely about earning a great living. It means living a great life"

Brad Henry, Politician

"Hydrogen holds great promise to meet many of our future energy needs, and it addresses national security and our environmental concerns. Hydrogen is the simplest, most abundant element in the universe"

Dan Lipinski, Politician

"The most striking development of the great depression of 1929 is a profound skepticism of the future of contemporary society among large sections of the American people"

C. L. R. James, Journalist

"The international proletariat first appeared on the scene in the early Thirties of the nineteenth century, and its first great action was the French Revolution of 1848"

C. L. R. James, Journalist

"As the class struggle sharpens in the U.S. Marxism will come into its own as a great popular study"

C. L. R. James, Journalist

"George W. Bush is not only a great president; he was a great candidate"

Ed Gillespie, Politician

"Great woman belong to history and to self sacrifice"

Leigh Hunt, Poet

"If the conditions were right there could be great acceptance. Often it is only when they pose an economic or political threat that it turns really ugly"

Iris Chang, Historian

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