“Nurture your minds with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes heroes.”– Benjamin Disraeli Related Quotes “In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men you must first enable the government to control the governed and in the next place oblige it to control itself.”– James Madison “Cross country skiing is great if you live in a small country.”– Steven Wright “It is the mark of a great man that he puts to flight all ordinary calculations. He is at once sublime and touching, childlike and of the race of giants.”– Honore de Balzac