Men Quotes - Page 1017

What James Madison and the other men of his generation had in mind when they wrote the First Amendment was that there should be no official relationship of any character between government and any church or many churches, and no levying of taxes for the support of any church, or many churches, or all churches, or any institution conducted by any of them.

Ooh, ah, ooh, ah, that's the sound of the men working on the chain gang.

We cannot train women and forget about the men. We should train men to know the potential of women.

Even if we have thousands of acts of great virtue to our credit, our confidence in being heard must be based on God's mercy and His love for men. Even if we stand at the very summit of virtue, it is by mercy that we shall be saved.

Whosoever formeth an intimacy with the enemies of his friends, does so to injure the latter. O wise man! wash your hands of that friend who associates with your enemies.

The greedy man is incontent with a whole world set before him.

The sea does not contain all the pearls, the earth does not enclose all the treasures, and the flint-stone does not inclose all the diamonds, since the head of man encloses wisdom.

Publish not men's secret faults, for by disgracing them you make yourself of no repute.

Universal suffrage should rest upon universal education. To this end, liberal and permanent provision should be made for the support of free schools by the State governments, and, if need be, supplemented by legitimate aid from national authority.

Nothing brings out the lower traits of human nature like office-seeking. Men of good character and impulses are betrayed by it into all sorts of meanness.

Historically, the new government had no money to pay for an army, so they relied on the state militias. And the states required men to have certain weapons and they specified in the law what weapons these people had to keep in their home so that when they were called to do service as militiamen, they would have them. That was the entire purpose of the Second Amendment.

At the moment of insight, a potential pattern of organized behavior comes into being.

The Internet has been the most fundamental change during my lifetime and for hundreds of years.

But the best I've known Stays here, and changes, breaks, grows old, is blown About the winds of the world, and fades from brains Of living men, and dies.

War knows no power. Safe shall be my going, Secretly armed against all death's endeavour; Safe though all safety's lost; safe where men fall; And if these poor limbs die, safest of all.

Snake's poison is life to the snake; it is in relation to man that it means "death.

What country is stabler than Iran? Where else in the world would an assassinated prime minister be so quickly replaced?

Our whole evolution has reached a stage where nearly every man is either ruler or ruled; sometimes he is both. By this the attitude of dependence has been greatly strengthened, for a truly free man does not like to play the part of either the ruler or the ruled. He is, above all, concerned with making his inner values and personal powers effective in a way as to permit him to use his own judgment in all affairs and to be independent in action.

The nation which can only be saved by one man and wants to be saved that way deserves a whipping!

Heaven is high and earth wide. If you ride three feet higher above the ground than other men, you will know what that means.

Man does not see reality as it is, but only as he perceives it, and his perception may be mistaken or biased.

Man is always on the way.

We have no idea what's natural and what's man made. [...] There is no fingerprint of human-caused warming.

Truth is suppressed, not to protect the country from enemy agents but to protect the Government of the day against the people.

We still live in a world in which a significant fraction of people, including women, believe that a woman belongs and wants to belong exclusively in the home.