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A great man is hard on himself; a small man is hard on others.

A gentleman can see a question from all sides without bias. The small man is biased and can see a question only from one side.

Small men, seeking great wealth or power, have too often and too long turned even the highest levels of public service into mere personal opportunity.

I do date quite small men. And one large man! Just one.

Everybody has to think for himself. A right way for a big man may not be a right way for a small man. A right way for someone who is slow may not be a right way for someone who is quick. Each person must understand his weaknesses and his strengths.

It is the small men and not the great who hold their noses in the air.

A small man can be just as exhausted as a great man.

There have been great men with little of what we call education. There have been many small men with a great deal of learning. There has never been a great people who did not possess great learning.

The gentleman calls attention to the good points in others; he does not call attention to their defects. The small man does just the reverse of this.

They were evidently small men, all wind and quibbles, flinging out their chuffy grain to us with far less interest than a farm-wife feels as she scatters corn to her fowls.

The gentleman sees what is right while the small man sees what is profitable.

The proper man understands equity, the small man profits.

Possessed of courage but devoid of morality, a superior man will make trouble while a small man will be a brigand.

The end of the day is near when small men make long shadows.

The superior man cannot be known in little matters, but he may be entrusted with great concerns. The small man may not be entrusted with great concerns, but he may be known in little matters.

The gentleman is calm and at ease. The gentleman is dignified but not proud; the small man is proud but not dignified.

What the superior man seeks is in himself; what the small man seeks is in others.

I am for the small man who has not forgotten, for the man who loves his beer and his women and his sunlight

While the gentleman cherishes benign rule, the small man cherishes his native land. While the gentleman cherishes a respect for the law, the small man cherishes generous treatment.

The small man thinks that small acts of goodness are of no benefit, and does not do them; and that small deeds of evil do no harm, and does not refrain from them. Hence, his wickedness becomes so great that it cannot be concealed, and his guilt so great that it cannot be pardoned.

A gentleman can withstand hardships; it is only the small man who, when submitted to them, is swept off his feet.

Small Man can be a very funny or a very tiresome Tour Companion, depending on how this kind of thing grabs you. He gambles, he drinks too much and he always runs away. Since the Rules allow him to make Jokes, he will excuse his behaviour in a variety of comical ways. Physically he is stunted and not at all handsome, although he usually dresses flamboyantly. He tends to wear hats with feathers in. You will discover he is very vain. But, if you can avoid smacking him, you will come to tolerate if not love him. He will contrive, in some cowardly way, to play a major part in saving the world.

A great many men – some comparatively small men now – if put in the right position, would be Luthers and Columbuses.

Optimism is the content of small men in high places.

To a small man every greater is an exaggeration.

During the Samuel Johnson days they had big men enjoying small talk; today we have small men enjoying big talk.

Coupled with Usury, Unrestricted Competition destroys the small man for the profit of the great and in so doing produces that mass of economically unfree citizens whose very political freedom comes in question because it has no foundation in any economic freedom, that is, any useful proportion of property to support it. Political freedom without economic freedom is almost worthless, and it is because the modern proletariat has the one kind of freedom without the other that its rebellion is now threatening the very structure of the modern world.

Ofttimes a very small man can cast a very large shadow.

It is now conceded that all idea of British intervention is at an end… I want to hug the army of the Potomac. I want to get the whole army of Vicksburg drunk at my own expense. I want to fight some small man and lick him.

The larger the unit of capital present, the easier the transaction called emission of credit. Centralized lending of this kind (which is today universal) actively promotes the absorption of the small man by the great, the reduction of small property owners to a proletarian condition.

The small man builds cages for everyone he knows While the sage, who has to duck his head when the moon is low, Keeps dropping keys all night long For the beautiful rowdy prisoners.

Power resides only where men believe it resides. […] A shadow on the wall, yet shadows can kill. And ofttimes a very small man can cast a very large shadow.

Dragons old and young, true and false, bright and dark. And you. A small man with a big shadow, snarling in the midst of all.

A small man intoxicated by being allowed to run around with the big, aggressive, powerful boys after so many years as a corduroy-clad peacenik.

A tall, well-built man with a deep chest and broad shoulders can carry a heavy burden with ease and unconcern, and still keep one hand free; a dwarf would be crushed by half that weight. Thus lofty posts make great men greater still, and small men much smaller.