He had no failings which were not owing to a noble cause to an ardent generous perhaps an immoderate passion for fame a passion which is the instinct of all great souls.

It is part of a good man to do great and noble deeds though he risk everything.

Let us not listen to those who think we ought to be angry with our enemies and who believe this to be great and manly. Nothing is so praiseworthy nothing so clearly shows a great and noble soul as clemency and readiness to forgive.

Just as a man would not cherish living in a body other than his own so do nations not like to live under other nations however noble and great the latter may be.

I long to accomplish a great and noble task but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble.

Two hundred years ago our Founding Fathers gave us a democracy. It was based upon the simple yet noble idea that government derives its validity from the consent of the governed.

To be good is noble but to show others how to be good is nobler and no trouble.

An honest God is the noblest work of man.

An honest man's the noblest work of God.

I will far rather see the race of man extinct than that we should become less than beasts by making the noblest of God's creation woman the object of our lust.