I never knew a man come to greatness or eminence who lay abed late in the morning.

The test of leadership is not to put greatness into humanity but to elicit it for the greatness is already there.

I want to deploy the leadership to meet the challenges that face us and to restore America's greatness.

The task of leadership is not to put greatness into humanity but to elicit it for the greatness is already there.

Human relations are built on feeling not on reason or knowledge. And feeling is not an exact science like all spiritual qualities it has the vagueness of greatness about it.

There is something mean in human nature that prefers to think evil that gives a willing ear and a ready welcome to calumny a sort of jealousy of goodness and greatness and things of good report.

The past always seems somehow more golden more serious than the present. We tend to forget the partisanship of yesteryear preferring to re-imagine our history as a sure and steady march toward greatness.

This is the greatest society in all of human history the greatest country ever. Many of the decisions being made in Washington today by both parties are threatening that greatness. And if we stay on this road we're on right now our children are going to be the first Americans ever to inherit a diminished country.

No man is truly great who is great only in his lifetime. The test of greatness is the page of history.

Our nation was created in ways that allow human potential to prosper and it created the greatest nation for people in the history of humanity. Now Obama is dismantling it because he has no appreciation for our greatness. In fact he resents it. He blames this country for whatever evils he sees around the world.