Men Quotes

Once you permit those who are convinced of their own superior rightness to censor and silence and suppress those who hold contrary opinions, just at that moment the citadel has been surrendered. For the American citadel is a man. Not man in general. Not man in the abstract. Not the majority of men. But man. That man. His worth. His uniqueness.

Archibald MacLeish

And the wind shall say Here were decent godless people. Their only monument the asphalt road. And a thousand lost golf balls.

T. S. Eliot

Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.

James Boswell, Life of Samuel Johnson, 1791

The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self - Restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it.

Theodore Roosevelt

Some of your countrymen were unable to distinguish between their native dislike for war and the stainless patriotism of those who suffered its scars. But there has been a rethinking and now we can say to you, and say as a nation, thank you for your courage.

Ronald Reagan

Thus let me live, unseen, unknown; thus unlamented let me die; steal from the world, and not a stone tell where I lie.

Alexander Pope, "Ode to Solitude".

Happiness is not a reward - It is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment - It is a result.

Robert G. Ingersoll

Christmas is a time when kids tell Santa what they want and adults pay for it. Deficits are when adults tell the government what they want - And their kids pay for it.

Richard Lamm

Any power must be an enemy of mankind which enslaves the individual by terror and force, whether it arises under the Fascist or the Communist flag. All that is valuable in human society depends upon the opportunity for development accorded to the individual.

Albert Einstein

Beware of sentimental alliances where the consciousness of good deeds is the only compensation for noble sacrifices.

Otto von Bismarck, Bismarck and the German Empire by Erich Eyck

The enjoyment of life would be instantly gone if you removed the possibility of doing something.

Chauncey Depew

Men of genius are often dull and inert in society, as a blazing meteor when it descends to earth, is only a stone.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

For Brutus is an honourable man; So are they all, all honourable men.

William Shakespeare, "Julius Caesar", Act 3 scene 2

Spend everyday casual, but industrious Every moment alert, but relaxed.

Guy Finley

Some men look at constitutions with sanctimonious reverence, and deem them like the ark of the covenant, too sacred to be touched.

Thomas Jefferson, Resolutions, 1803

God is not on the side of any nation, yet we know He is on the side of justice. Our finest moments as a nation have come when we faithfully served the cause of justice for our own citizens, and for the people of other lands.

George W. Bush, Klein, J. (2004). The perils of a righteous president. Time, May 17: 25.

The moment we begin to fear the opinions of others and hesitate to tell the truth that is in us, and from motives of policy are silent when we should speak, the divine floods of light and life no longer flow into our souls.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton, 1890

Animals, in their generation, are wiser than the sons of men but their wisdom is confined to a few particulars, and lies in a very narrow compass.

Joseph Addison

Toward the accomplishment of an aim, which in wantonness of atrocity would seem to partake of the insane, he will direct a cool judgement, sagacious and sound. These men are madmen, and of the most dangerous sort.

Herman Melville, Billy Budd, Sailo

My salad days, When I was green in judgment.

William Shakespeare

The very fact of its finding itself in agreement with other minds perturbs it, so that it hunts for points of divergence, feeling the urgent need to make it clear that at least it reached the same conclusions by a different route.

Herbert Butterfield

Probably all laws are useless, for good men do not want laws at all, and bad men are made no better by them.

Demonax

Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.

Tacitus

All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts pathological personalities. It is not that power corrupts but that it is magnetic to the corruptable. Such people have a tendency to become drunk on violence, a condition to which they are quickly addicted.

Frank Herbert, Chapterhouse Dune, Missionaria Protectiva

He who seizes the right moment is the right man.

Johann von Goethe

We believe that all men are created equal because they are created in the image of God.

Harry S. Truman

The Scripture vouches Solomon for the wisest of men; and his proverbs prove him so, The seven wise men of Greece, so famous for their wisdom all the world over, acquired all that fame each of them by a single sentence, consisting of two or three words.

South

It is the nature of desire not to be satisfied, and most men live only for the gratification of it.

Aristotle, Politics

Amusement is the happiness of those who cannot think.

Alexander Pope

There are very few women in society whose virtue outlasts their beauty.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, Reflexions ou Sentences et Maximes Morales

I stopped believing in Santa Claus when my mother took me to see him in a department store, and he asked for my autograph.

Shirley Temple

To educate a man in mind, and not in morals, is to educate a menace to society.

Theodore Roosevelt

David I do not, for one, think that the problem was that the band was down. I think that the problem *may* have been, that there was a Stonehenge monument on the stage that was in danger of being *crushed* by a *dwarf*. Alright That tended to understate the hugeness of the object.

This Is Spinal Tap

The less government we have the better.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Silence is argument carried out by other means.

Ernesto "Che" Guevara

There are three classes into which all the women past seventy that ever I knew were to be divided 1. That dear old soul2. That old woman3. That old witch.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

All men who have achieved great things have been great dreamers.

Orison Swett Marden

And that this country shall have a new birth of freedom, and that this government, of the people, for the people, by the people, shall not perish from the Earth.

Abraham Lincoln, Gettysburg Address