Men Quotes
I gather, young man, that you wish to be a Member of Parliament. The first lesson that you must learn is, when I call for statistics about the rate of infant mortality, what I want is proof that fewer babies died when I was Prime Minister than when anyone else was Prime Minister. That is a political statistic.Sir Winston Churchill
The will of the people is the only legitimate foundation of any government, and to protect its free expression should be our first object.Thomas Jefferson
When you cannot get a compliment any other way pay yourself one.Mark Twain
I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations.James Madison
The reliance on property is... the want of self - Reliance. Men measure the esteem of each other by what each has, and not by what each is. But a cultivated man becomes ashamed of his property... Essays.Ralph Waldo Emerson
What plays the mischief with the truth is that men will insist upon the universal application of a temporary feeling or opinion.Daisy Bates
We perceive when love begins and when it declines by our embarrassment when alone together.La Bruyere
Statesmen may plan and speculate for liberty but it is religion and morality alone that can establish the principles upon which freedom can securely stand.John Adams
Engineering is the art of organizing and directing men and controlling the forces and materials of nature for the benefit of the human race.Henry G. Stott, 1907
I have made good judgements in the Past. I have made good judgements in the Future.Dan Quayle
Sin bravely... We will never have all the facts to make a perfect judgement, but with the aid of basic experience we must leap bravely into the future.Russell R. McIntyre
Whenever you commend, add your reasons for doing so; it is this which distinguishes the approbation of a man of sense from the flattery of sycophants and admiration of fools.Sir Richard Steele
In the defense of our nation, a president must be a clear - Eyed realist. There are limits to the smiles and scowls of diplomacy. Armies and missiles are not stopped by stiff notes of condemnation. They are held in check by strength and purpose and the promise of swift punishment.George W. Bush, speech, November 19, 1999
Although the constant shadow of certain death looms over everyday, the pleasures and joys of life can be so fine and affecting that the heart is nearly stilled in astonishment.Dean Koontz, Watchers
Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Cultivate solitude and quiet and a few sincere friends, rather than mob merriment, noise and thousands of nodding acquaintances.William Powell
There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty.John Adams, Journal, 1772
Some men have thousands of reasons why they cannot do what they want to, when all they need is one reason why they can.Willis Whitney
No tyranny is so irksome as petty tyranny: the officious demands of policemen, government clerks, and electromechanical gadgets.Edward Abbey
Heat and animosity, contest and conflict, may sharpen the wits, although they rarely do; they never strengthen the understanding, clear the perspicacity, guide the judgment, or improve the heart.Walter Savage Lando
Men who are unhappy, like men who sleep badly, are always proud of the fact.Bertrand Russell, Conquest of Happiness (1930) ch. 1
Discrimination is a hellhound that gnaws at Negroes in every waking moment of their lives to remind them that the lie of their inferiority is accepted as truth in the society dominating them.Martin Luther King, Jr.
Ideas, like individuals, live and die. They flourish, according to their nature, in one soil or climate and droop in another. They are the vegetation of the mental world.Macneile Dixon
Had there been no difficulties and no thorns in the way, then man would have been in his primitive state and no progress made in civilisation and mental culture.Anandabai Joshee
Usenet is like a herd of performing elephants with diarrhea - - Massive, difficult to redirect, awe - Inspiring, entertaining, and a source of mind - Boggling amounts of excrement when you least expect it.Gene Spafford, 1992
Men are slower to recognize blessings than misfortunes.Titus Livius
That would be a good thing for them to cut on my tombstone Wherever she went, including here, it was against her better judgment.Dorothy Parke
My father always told me that all businessmen were sons of bitches, but I never believed it till now. On steel industry executives who increased prices.John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Hatred of enemies is easier and more intense than love of friends. But from men who are more anxious to injure opponents than to benefit the world at large no great good is to be expected.Lord Bertrand Russell
Punishment is not for revenge, but to lessen crime and reform the criminal.Elizabeth Fry, Journal entry
A man is what he is, not what men say he is. His character no man can touch. His character is what he is before his God and his Judge; and only he himself can damage that. His reputations what men say he is. That can be damaged; but reputation is for time, character is for eternity.John Ballantine Gough
None can love freedom heartily but good men the rest love not freedom, but license.John Milton
Men in earnest have no time to waste In patching fig - Leaves for the naked truth.Hubert Humphrey
Watergate showed more strengths in our system than weaknesses... The whole country did take part in quite a genuine sense in passing judgment on Richard Nixon.Archibald Cox
It is the duty of every patriot to protect his country from its government.Thomas Paine
The good devout man first makes inner preparation for the actions he has later to perform. His outward actions do not draw him into lust and vice; rather it is he who bends them into the shape of reason and right judgement. Who has a stiffer battle to fight than the man who is striving to conquer himself.Thomas a Kempis
Love rules the court, the camp, the grove, And men below, and saints above For love is heaven, and heaven is love.Sir Walter Scott
