Men Quotes - Page 559

All men are by nature free; you have therefore an undoubted liberty to depart whenever you please, but will have many and great difficulties to encounter in passing the frontiers.

Use, do not abuse; neither abstinence nor excess ever renders man happy.

It is the poverty connected with our species which subordinates one man to another. It is not inequality which is the real misfortune, it is dependence.

On the pavement of my trampled soul the steps of madmen weave the prints of rude crude words.

It is fatal to be a man or woman pure and simple: one must be a woman manly, or a man womanly.

When a thing is true, there is no need to use any arguments to substantiate it.

When it is useful to them, men can believe a theory of which they know nothing more than its name.

One of the great disappointments of our time has been that the United States, a beacon of hope during the freedom struggles of the Asian peoples, succumbed to the views and greater colonial experience of nations grown to power in an earlier period.

The world is always in movement.

Live performance has always been my thing. It’s my purpose to master and capture the moment every time I have you connected.

There are many men who would have done better than I did under the circumstances in which I found myself. If I had never held command, if I had fallen, there were 10,000 behind who would have followed the contest to the end and never surrendered the Union.

It always matters, whether or not you can trust your government.

As simplistic as this may sound, commitment is still the common denominator separating those who live their dreams from those who live in regret.

If you want to take the island, then burn your boats. With absolute commitment come the insights that create real victory.

Here is a language so far ahead of its time, that it was not only an improvement on its predecessors, but also on nearly all its successors.

A kingdom man is a man who visibly demonstrates the comprehensive rule of God underneath the Lordship of Jesus Christ in every area of his life.

Man, wear your seat belts. That's all I can tell everybody. You never know.

Navigation is power of a limited sort - it enables us to manage the immensity of the media torrent.

Engineering is the art of directing the great sources of power in nature for the use and convenience of man.

People who believe in evolution in biology often believe in creationism in government. In other words, they believe that the universe and all the creatures in it could have evolved spontaneously, but that the economy is too complicated to operate without being directed by politicians.

We can’t direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails. For maximum happiness, peace, and contentment, may we choose a positive attitude.

Some men look at constitutions with sanctimonious reverence, and deem them like the ark of the Covenant, too sacred to be touched. They ascribe to the men of the preceding age a wisdom more than human, and suppose what they did to be beyond amendment.

A Bill of Rights is what the people are entitled to against every government, and what no just government should refuse, or rest on inference.

The policy of the American government is to leave their citizens free, neither restraining nor aiding them in their pursuits.

A strong woman who recklessly throws away her strength, she is worse than a weak woman who has never had any strength to throw away.