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I want things to be the best they can be. I want greatness.

You are watching what greatness, is all about.

Tonight, we gather to affirm the greatness of our nation - not because of the height of our skyscrapers, or the power of our military, or the size of our economy. Our pride is based on a very simple premise, summed up in a declaration made over two hundred years ago.

A child does not notice the greatness and the beauty of nature and the splendor of God in his works.

I believe that history has shape, order, and meaning; that exceptional men, as much as economic forces, produce change; and that passe abstractions like beauty, nobility, and greatness have a shifting but continuing validity.

The greatness of man is great in that he knows himself to be wretched. A tree does not know itself to be wretched.

Man's greatness lies in his power of thought.

You see, greatness for a state doesn't require some huge monument for all to see. It is not a journey to a particular destination - but a commitment to follow a course of constant and never-ending improvement.

No, our greatness does not come from our government.

I believe Georgia should aspire to nothing less than greatness. And I believe greatness is within our grasp.

Every person seems to acknowledge his greatness. He blends together the profound politician with the scholar.

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

People do not always understand the motives of sublime conduct, and when they are astonished they are very apt to think they ought to be alarmed. The truth is none are fit judges of greatness but those who are capable of it.

No university in the world has ever risen to greatness without a correspondingly great library... When this is no longer true, then will our civilization have come to an end.

I want our leaders to lead our country to greatness, but President Obama and his misguided policies and ideology have really fundamentally changed our country in the wrong way, more so than any president in our history.

The United States is a big country but unfortunately it seems it has the brain of a little bird not befitting the greatness of the country.

My fellow Minnesotans join me in mourning the loss of America's 40th President and celebrating the life of a man who personified both the greatness and goodness of America.

Ask yourself whether the dream of heaven and greatness should be waiting for us in our graves - or whether it should be ours here and now and on this earth.

Greatness, in the last analysis, is largely bravery - courage in escaping from old ideas and old standards and respectable ways of doing things.

Those who occupy their minds with small matters, generally become incapable of greatness.