Men Quotes
All men who have achieved great things have been great dreamers.Orison Swett Marden
Why has government been instituted at all? Because the passions of men will not conform to the dictates of reason and justice, without constraint.Alexander Hamilton
Men often applaud an imitation, and hiss the real thing.Aesop
Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and forms of government.Aristotle
Before all else, each of us must take a fundamental risk - - To be true to ourselves.Jim We
True godliness does not turn men out of the world, but enables them to live better in it and excites their endeavors to mend it.William Penn
Women are at last becoming persons first and wives second, and that is as it should be.May Sarton
I bear solemn witness to the fact that NATO heads of state and of government meet only to go through the tedious motions of reading speeches, drafted by others, with the principal objective of not rocking the boat.Pierre Elliott Trudeau
For all their strength, men were sometimes like little children.Lawana Blackwell, The Dowry of Miss Lydia Clark, 1999
The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. But it does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods, or no god. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.Thomas Jefferson, Notes on the State of Virginia, 1781 - 82
Why grab possessions like thieves, or divide them like socialists, when you can ignore them like wise men.Natalie Clifford Barney
In Cyberspace, the First Amendment is a local ordinance.John Perry Barlow
All men are in some degree impressed by the face of the world; some men even to delight. This love of beauty is taste. Others have the same love in such success that, not content with admiring, they seek to embody it in new forms. The creation of beauty is art.Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.Graham Greene, The Power and the Glory
The history of ideas is the history of the grudges of solitary men.E. M. Cioran
We may pass violets looking for roses. We may pass contentment looking for victory.Bern Williams
Mental toughness is essential to success.Vince Lombardi
A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral.Antoine De Saint - Exupery
Women have more to offer this world than just a fallopian tube. Nothing is going to change until you quit looking at us as just sperm receptacles.Barbara Hall, Northern Exposure, Baby Blues, 1994
The First Amendment is often inconvenient. But that is besides the point. Inconvenience does not absolve the government of its obligation to tolerate speech.Justice Anthony Kennedy
Animals have these advantages over man: they never hear the clock strike, they die without any idea of death, they have no theologians to instruct them, their last moments are not disturbed by unwelcome and unpleasant ceremonies, their funerals cost them nothing, and no one starts lawsuits over their wills.Voltaire
We have entered an age in which education is not just a luxury permitting some men an advantage over others. It has become a necessity without which a person is defenseless in this complex, industrialized society. ... We have truly entered the century of the educated man.Lyndon B. Johnson
The very idea of the power and the right of the people to establish Government, presupposes the duty of every individual to obey the established Government.George Washington
In a way the CID man was pretty lucky, because outside the hospital the war was still going on. Men went mad and were rewarded with medals. All over the world, boys on every side of the bomb line were laying down their lives for what they had been told was their country, and no one seemed to mind, least of all the boys who were laying down their young lives.Joesph Heller, Catch - 22
Never have anything to do with an unlucky place, or an unlucky man. I have seen many clever men, very clever men, who had not shoes to their feet. I never act with them. Their advice sounds very well, but they cannot get on themselves; and if they cannot do good to themselves, how can they do good for me?Rothschild
In nature there are neither rewards not punishments - - There are consequences.Robert Green Ingersoll
Whoever is open, loyal, true; of humane and affable demeanour; honourable himself, and in his judgement of others; faithful to his word as to law, and faithful alike to God and man.... such a man is a true gentleman.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Many brave men lived before Agamemnon; but all are overwhelmed in eternal night, unwept, unknown, because they lack a sacred poet.Horace, Odes
Bad mind, bad heart. Mals Mens, Malus Animus.Anacharsis Cloots
Men are so stupid and concerned with their present needs, they will always let themselves be deceived.Machiavelli, The Prince
Men are not made religious by performing certain actions which are externally good, but they must first have righteous principles, and then they will not fail to perform virtuous actions.Martin Luthe
Anyone can revolt. It is more difficult silently to obey our own inner promptings, and to spend our lives finding sincere and fitting means of expression for our temperament and our gifts.Georges Rouault
Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.Gilbert Keith Chesterton
Love, free as air at sight of human ties, Spreads his light wings, and in a moment flies.Alexander Pope
The secretary of education does not work for the education establishment. The secretary works for the American people.William John Bennett
Government is the great fiction through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else.Frederick Bastiat, "Government" published in 1848
He with whom neither slander that gradually soaks into the mind, nor statements that startle like a wound in the flesh, are successful may be called intelligent indeed.Confucius, The Confucian Analects
