“If God listened to the prayers of men, all men would quickly have perished: for they are forever praying for evil against one another.”
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“Risk is a part of God's game, alike for men and nations.”
“So live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you.”
“I'm not denyin' the women are foolish. God Almighty made 'em to match the men.”
“The chief difference between words and deeds is that words are always intended for men for their approbation, but deeds can be done only for God.”
“The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.”
“If I am walking with two other men, each of them will serve as my teacher. I will pick out the good points of the one and imitate them, and the bad points of the other and correct them in myself.”
“The evil that men do lives after them; the good is oft interred with their bones.”
“It takes time to persuade men to do even what is for their own good.”
“I look only to the good qualities of men. Not being faultless myself, I won't presume to probe into the faults of others.”
“If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men's cottage princes' palaces.”
“Every actual State is corrupt. Good men must not obey laws too well.”
“Good men must not obey the laws too well.”
“It is a fact often observed, that men have written good verses under the inspiration of passion, who cannot write well under other circumstances.”
“Our forces saved the remnants of the Jewish people of Europe for a new life and a new hope in the reborn land of Israel. Along with all men of good will, I salute the young state and wish it well.”
“Men of ill judgment ignore the good that lies within their hands, till they have lost it.”
“The only good luck many great men ever had was being born with the ability and determination to overcome bad luck.”
“Ignorant men don't know what good they hold in their hands until they've flung it away.”
“The marvel of all history is the patience with which men and women submit to burdens unnecessarily laid upon them by their governments.”
“If men were angels, no government would be necessary.”
“The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws.”
“Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and forms of government.”
“Those who want the Government to regulate matters of the mind and spirit are like men who are so afraid of being murdered that they commit suicide to avoid assassination.”
“Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition. Whether it be true or not, I can say for one that I have no other so great as that of being truly esteemed of my fellow men, by rendering myself worthy of their esteem.”