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"It is not the greatness of a man's means that makes him independent, so much as the smallness of his wants."
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"The excitement of opportunity and challenge inspires us to push for greatness."

"Greatness lies, not in being strong, but in the right using of strength; and strength is not used rightly when it serves only to carry a man above his fellows for his own solitary glory. He is the greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own."

"You have All it takes to be Great, See the unseen, Give the Good in your hand now to Activate that Great Grace for Greatness."

"To seek greatness is the only righteous vengeance."
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"The tendency of taxation is to create a class of persons who do not labor, to take from those who do labor the produce of that labor, and to give it to those who do not labor."


"Never esteem men on account of their riches or their station. Respect goodness, find it where you may."


"The power which money gives is that of brute force; it is the power of the bludgeon and the bayonet."


"Women are a sisterhood. They make common cause in behalf of the sex; and, indeed, this is natural enough, when we consider the vast power that the law gives us over them."


"Another great evil arising from this desire to be thought rich; or rather, from the desire not to be thought poor, is the destructive thing which has been honored by the name of "speculation"; but which ought to be called Gambling."


"The very hirelings of the press, whose trade it is to buoy up the spirits of the people. have uttered falsehoods so long, they have played off so many tricks, that their budget seems, at last, to be quite empty."


"From a very early age I had imbibed the opinion that it was every man's duty to do all that lay in his power to leave his country as good as he had found it."
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