Men Quotes - Page 852

The difference there is betwixt honor and honesty seems to be chiefly the motive; the mere honest man does that from duty which the man of honor does for the sake of character.

Life every man holds dear; but the dear man holds honor far more precious dear than life.

Democracy is only an experiment in government, and it has the obvious disadvantage of merely counting votes instead of weighing them.

Every person, whether in wartime or not, should keep a pistol and rifle in his house at all times. If a person is not going to protect himself, and wishes the government to do it for him, how can he complain when the government decides to protect itself against him, and executes him?

True godliness does not turn men out of the world, but enables them to live better in it and excites their endeavors to mend it.

The natural man has only two primal passions, to get and beget.

One man with an idea in his head is in danger of being considered a madman: two men with the same idea in common may be foolish, but can hardly be mad; ten men sharing an idea begin to act, a hundred draw attention as fanatics, a thousand and society begins to tremble, a hundred thousand and there is war abroad, and the cause has victories tangible and real; and why only a hundred thousand? Why not a hundred million and peace upon the earth? You and I who agree together, it is we who have to answer that question.

No man is good enough to be another's master.

No man ever sailed over exactly the same route that another sailed over before him; every man who starts on the ocean of life arches his sails to an untried breeze.

The amazing activity of the cat is delicately balanced by his capacity for relaxation. Every household should contain a cat, not only for decorative and domestic values, but because the cat in quiescence is medicinal to irritable, tense, tortured men and women.

Faith is trust or commitment to what you think is true.

The poor man who takes property by force is called a thief, but the creditor who can by legislation make a debtor pay a dollar twice as large as he borrowed is lauded as the friend of a sound currency. The man who wants the people to destroy the Government is an anarchist, but the man who wants the Government to destroy the people is a patriot.

A man may not achieve everything he has dreamed, but he will never achieve anything great without having dreamed it first.

We can't be so fixated on our desire to preserve the rights of ordinary Americans.

Use of a mentally ill person's involuntary confession is antithetical to the notion of fundamental fairness embodied in the due process clause.

The diffusion of taste is not the same thing as the improvement of taste.

But assuming the same premises, to wit, that all men are equal by the law of nature and of nations, the right of property in slaves falls to the ground; for one who is equal to another cannot be the owner or property of that other.

It is not the function of the State to make men happy. They must make themselves happy in their own way, and at their own risk. The functions of the State lie entirely in the conditions or chances under which the pursuit of happiness is carried on.

The proper method for hastening the decay of error is by teaching every man to think for himself.

A man must not deny his manifest abilities, for that is to evade his obligations.

I pity bashful men, who feel the pain Of fancied scorn and undeserved disdain, And bear the marks upon a blushing face, OF needless shame, and self-impos'd disgrace.

God made the country, and man made the town.

The Man who never in his Mind & Thoughts travel'd to Heaven Is No Artist.

Pride is a personal commitment. It is an attitude which separates excellence from mediocrity.

God does not choose a person for ease and comfort and selfish joy but for a task that will take all that head and heart and hand can bring to it. God chooses a man in order to use him.