Famous quotes containing the words greater and/or common:
“I never dreamed of any enormity greater than I have committed. I never knew, and never shall know, a worse man than myself.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“The genius of the United States is not best or most in its executives or legislatures, nor in its ambassadors or authors or colleges, or churches, or parlors, nor even in its newspapers or inventors, but always most in the common people.”
—Walt Whitman (1819–1892)