Greatest Number

Famous quotes containing the words greatest number, greatest and/or number:

    “The highest proof of civility is that the whole public action of the State is directed on securing the greatest good of the greatest number.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    “I got it: Man Without Head Kills Rich Jeweler. What an eight- column spread that’d be on the front page. Why that’s the greatest story since Lindbergh flew to Paris. Oh boy, if only it was true.”
    —P. J. Wolfson, John L. Balderston (1899–1954)

    “Today, almost forty years later, I grow dizzy when I recall that the number of manufactured tanks seems to have been more important to me than the vanished victims of racism.”
    —Albert Speer (1905–1981)