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• The greatness of kings is made at the margin; the greatness of legislatures, at the mean.
  That is to say, a monarch is judged by individual virtues and performance, but no legislature can be called great because it contained one or a few impressive individuals, to whom it paid no heed....
• The greatness of individuals can be decided only by those who live after them, not by their contemporaries.
• The greatness of a nation can be judged by the way its animals are treated. Gandhi
• There is no such thing as a little country. the greatness of a people is no more determined by their number than the greatness of a man is determined by his height.
  -- Victor Hugo (1802-1885)...
• The great man fights the elements in his time that hinder his own greatness, in other words his own freedom and sincerity.
  -- Nietsche...
• The greatness of a man can nearly always be measured by his willingness to be kind. YOUNG
• The price of greatness is responsibility.
• Politics and the fate of mankind are formed by men without ideals and without greatness.
  Those who have greatness within them do not go in for politics. -- Albert Camu...
• There is a tendency for the person in the most powerful position in an organisation to spend all of his or her time serving on committees and signing letters.
  -- Oeser's Law...