Great men, I have said, are very simple men. [There are just] as many great men here as are to be found anywhere. The greatest error in judging great men is that we think that they will always hold an office. The world knows nothing of its greatest men. Who are the great men of the world? The young man and young woman may well ask the question. It is not necessary that they should hold an office, and yet that is the popular idea. That is the idea we teach now in our high schools and common school, that the great men of the world are those who hold some high office, and unless we change that very soon and do away with that prejudice, we are going to change to an empire.
Russell H. Conwell - "Acres of Diamonds" (Initially publish in 1890)
"and unless we change that very soon and do away with that prejudice, we are going to change to an empire."
ReplyDeleteWell he certainly new something that people didn't follow eh?