Great Commoner

Of course, Obama's base of support is quite different from that of the Great Commoner.

Michael Kazin: Surging for Obama? 2008

E.pire -- as real to-day as the Roman E.pire in the days of Julius Caesar; the French E.pire under the Little Corporal, or the British E.pire of the Great Commoner, William E. Gladstone.

The American Empire Scott Nearing 1933

The school reference librarian selected some 60 topics of English history -- Bretwalda, Sir Isaac Newton, East India Company, the Great Commoner, etc.

Library Work with Children 1917

The responsibility relinquished by the Great Commoner was assumed by Charles Townshend, Chancellor of the Exchequer, a man well fitted to foster the spirit of discord which then reigned, to the king's great content, in that "mosaic" ministry.

Beginnings of the American People Carl Lotus Becker 1909

Following closely the argument in Dulaney's pamphlet, which he held up as a masterly performance, the Great Commoner declared that "taxation is no part of the governing or legislating power."

Beginnings of the American People Carl Lotus Becker 1909

But the cold eyes of the Great Commoner, leader of leaders, sparkled, and his grim lips smiled.

The Clansman An Historical Romance of the Ku Klux Klan Thomas Dixon 1905

With savage energy the Great Commoner pressed to trial the first impeachment of a President of the United States for high crimes and misdemeanours.

The Clansman An Historical Romance of the Ku Klux Klan Thomas Dixon 1905

The Clerk read the Eleventh Article, drawn by the Great Commoner as the supreme test.

The Clansman An Historical Romance of the Ku Klux Klan Thomas Dixon 1905

Was it not because he at last saw the pettiness of his own pride and petulance when contrasted with the self-abnegation of him who was truly the Great Commoner?

William Pitt and the Great War John Holland Rose 1898

And there, above the confluence of the two rivers, the city named after the Great Commoner stands to-day.

The History of the United States from 1492 to 1910, Volume 1 From Discovery of America October 12, 1492 to Battle of Lexington April 19, 1775 Julian Hawthorne 1890