"Great thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind, but great actions speak to all mankind." ― Theodore Roosevelt Topic(s): Great More From Theodore Roosevelt "Some men can live up to their loftiest ideals without ever going higher than a basement." "I don’t pity any man who does hard work worth doing. I admire him. I pity the creature who does not work, at whichever end of the social scale he may regard himself as being." "The reactionary is always willing to take a progressive attitude on any issue that is dead." More In Great "A great wind swept over the ghetto, carrying away shame, invisibility and four centuries of humiliation. But when the wind dropped people saw it had been only a little breeze, friendly, almost gentle."― Jean Genet "Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires."― Francois de La Rochefoucauld "The ’60s are gone, dope will never be as cheap, sex never as free, and the rock and roll never as great."― Abbie Hoffman