The great man, who sees facts and reads the future, uses other men, knows the bounds of possibility in action, can decide instantly if need be, but leaves rash conclusions to those who are incapable of reaching any others.
This quote highlights the qualities of a great leader, emphasizing decisiveness and the ability to utilize others' strengths.
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The vulgar hatred of wealth found no place in his heart.
He fought to free the colonies from England, and make them independent, not to play the part of a Cæsar or a Cromwell in the wreck and confusion of civil war.
He flung aside the suggestion of supreme power, not simply as dishonorable and unpatriotic, but because such a result would have defeated the one great and noble object at which he aimed.
Fortitude in misfortune is more common than composure in the hour of victory.