Men Quotes - Page 729

Abhor flatterers as you would deceivers; for both, if trusted, injure those who trust them. If you admit as friends men who seek your favor for the lowest ends, your life will be lacking in friends who will risk your displeasure for the highest good.

Stop trusting in man, who has but a breath in his nostrils.

The man who follows Christ in solitary mourning is greater than he who praises Christ amid the congregation of men.

Every human being should always be treated as an end and never as a mere instrument.

A certain moral imbecility marks all ethnocentric movements.

We bury the men who do the nation's creative work under layers of administrators and mountains of memoranda. We shrivel creativity by endless frustrations.

To doubt one's own first principles is the mark of a civilized man. Don't defend past actions; what is right today may be wrong tomorrow. Don't be consistent; consistency is the refuge of fools.

The first ten amendments were proposed and adopted largely because of fear that Government might unduly interfere with prized individual liberties. The people wanted and demanded a Bill of Rights written into their Constitution. The amendments embodying the Bill of Rights were intended to curb all branches of the Federal Government in the fields touched by the amendments-Legislative, Executive, and Judicial.

I have a terrific marriage, but unlike a lot of relationships where they ebb and flow, no matter what happens you fall deeper and deeper in love every day. It's kind of the best thing that can happen to you. It's thrilling.

The impersonal hand of government can never replace the helping hand of a neighbor.

I wish to note that intellectual property theft by a government represents the very essence of organized crime.

To have a great man for an intimate friend seems pleasant to those who have never tried it; those who have, fear it.

I train very hard, until I am sick. Sometimes I train like a foolish man who has no mind.

All men's gains are the fruit of venturing.

Let there be nothing untried; for nothing happens by itself, but men obtain all things by trying.

When we are sick, we want an uncommon doctor; when we have a construction job to do, we want an uncommon engineer, and when we are at war, we want an uncommon general. It is only when we get into politics that we are satisfied with the common man.

Our government is built upon the vote. But votes that are purchasable are quicksands, and a government built on them stands upon corruption and revolution.

To become an able and successful man in any profession, three things are necessary, nature, study and practice.

Disappointment always arrives before hope and the darkness of night comes before the dawn. Don't lose hope now because things will brighter with the new day.

A man with a scant vocabulary will almost certainly be a weak thinker. The richer and more copious one's vocabulary and the greater one's awareness of fine distinctions and subtle nuances of meaning, the more fertile and precise is likely to be one's thinking. Knowledge of things and knowledge of the words for them grow together. If you do not know the words, you can hardly know the thing.

The government has nothing to give to anybody that it doesn't first take from someone else.

Liberty calls to us again. We must follow her further; we must trust her fully. Either we must wholly accept her or she will not stay. It is not enough that men should vote; it is not enough that they should be theoretically equal before the law. They must have liberty to avail themselves of the opportunities and means of life; they must stand on equal terms with reference to the bounty of Nature.

You must know all there is to know in your particular field and keep on the alert for new knowledge. The least difference in knowledge between you and another man may spell his success and your failure.

The one aim of these financiers is world control by the creation of inextinguishable debts.

Most men like in women what is most opposite their own characters.