In America, we may acknowledge Washington and Lincoln as great men, and probably Franklin and Jefferson and maybe Franklin Delano Roosevelt and possibly even several more, but we would probably disagree about precisely what it was that made them great, what it was that enabled them to give a lasting direction to the course of events.


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I have enjoyed great satisfaction from my climb of Everest and my trips to the poles. But there'...
EDMUND HILLARY
I think that a good mountaineer is usually a sensible mountaineer.
EDMUND HILLARY
I was scared many times on Everest, but this is all part of the challenge. When I fell down a crevas...
EDMUND HILLARY
The truth is, I'm just a rough old New Zealander who has enjoyed many challenges in his life.
EDMUND HILLARY
My relationship with the mountains actually started when I was 16. Every year, a group used to be ta...
EDMUND HILLARY
No one remembers who climbed Mount Everest the second time.
EDMUND HILLARY
Life's a bit like mountaineering - never look down.
EDMUND HILLARY
Human life is far more important than just getting to the top of a mountain.
EDMUND HILLARY
I have never regarded myself as a hero, but Tenzing undoubtedly was.
EDMUND HILLARY
It's not a real adventure when you have to pay for it.
EDMUND HILLARY
There is something about building up a comradeship - that I still believe is the greatest of all fea...
EDMUND HILLARY
If you cannot understand that there is something in man which responds to the challenge of this moun...
EDMUND HILLARY
I say further that our system of education should be unsectarian.
EDMUND BARTON
The difference between the denominational system and the public school system is all the difference ...
EDMUND BARTON
Creating a nation requires the will of the people!
EDMUND BARTON
If it is the duty of the State to educate, it is the duty of the State also to bear the burden of ed...
EDMUND BARTON
It is the duty of the State to educate, and the right of the people to demand education.
EDMUND BARTON
She is not made to be the admiration of all, but the happiness of one.
EDMUND BURKE
My vigour relents. I pardon something to the spirit of liberty.
EDMUND BURKE
The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion.
EDMUND BURKE
But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; ...
EDMUND BURKE
The writers against religion, whilst they oppose every system, are wisely careful never to set up a...
EDMUND BURKE
But the religion most prevalent in our northern colonies is a refinement on the principle of resist...
EDMUND BURKE
What shame keeps its watch, virtue is not wholly extinguished in the heart.
EDMUND BURKE
The fear of Hell, or aiming to be blest, Savors too much of private interest. This moved not Moses...
EDMUND WALLER
The seas are quiet when the winds give o'er; So calm are we when passions are no more!
EDMUND WALLER
The balance of power.
EDMUND BURKE
Of this stamp is the cant of, not men, but measures.
EDMUND BURKE
You had that action and counteraction which, in the natural and in the political world, from the re...
EDMUND BURKE
I do not know the method of drawing up an indictment against an whole people.
EDMUND BURKE
There was an ancient Roman lawyer, of great fame in the history of Roman jurisprudence, whom they c...
EDMUND BURKE
The nerve that never relaxes, the eye that never blanches, the thought that never wanders, the purp...
EDMUND BURKE
Things can get only so bad. People want to eat, so at some point they resist further cuts to their c...
EDMUND PHELPS
I am, I must confess, suspicious of those who denounce others for having too much sex. At what point...
EDMUND WHITE
If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free. If our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed.
EDMUND BURKE
Under the pressure of the cares and sorrows of our mortal condition, men have at all times, and in a...
EDMUND BURKE
Like stones, words are laborious and unforgiving, and the fitting of them together, like the fitting...
EDMUND MORRISON
It is the mind that maketh good of ill, that maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor.
EDMUND SPENSER
Who will not mercie unto others show, How can he mercie ever hope to have?
EDMUND SPENSER
Virtue may be cheerful without forgetting its dignity.
EDMUND SPENSER
It is an honourable thing to be merciful to the vanquished.
EDMUND SPENSER