“Measures must always in a progressive society be held superior to men, who are after all imperfect instruments, working for their fulfilment.”
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“Lord, Lord, how subject we old men are to this vice of lying!”
“Boxing is a lot of white men watching two black men beat each other up.”
“I will not be concerned at other men's not knowing meI will be concerned at my own want of ability.”
“All free men, wherever they may live, are citizens of Berlin. And therefore, as a free man, I take pride in the words 'Ich bin ein Berliner!'”
“We believe that if men have the talent to invent new machines that put men out of work, they have the talent to put those men back to work.”
“Democracy arises out of the notion that those who are equal in any respect are equal in all respects because men are equally free, they claim to be absolutely equal.”
“Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.”
“Nine men in ten are would be suicides.”
“Men's actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted, and who has not been the victim and slave of his action.”
“There is a blessed necessity by which the interest of men is always driving them to the right and, again, making all crime mean and ugly.”
“Truth is the property of no individual but is the treasure of all men.”
“Men admire the man who can organize their wishes and thoughts in stone and wood and steel and brass.”
“The reason why men do not obey us, is because they see the mud at the bottom of our eye.”
“In every society some men are born to rule, and some to advise.”
“Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting in a particular way.”
“Choose silence of all virtues, for by it you hear other men's imperfections, and conceal your own.”
“It will be of little avail to the people that the laws are made by men of their own choice if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood.”
“Of all religions, the Christian should of course inspire the most tolerance, but until now Christians have been the most intolerant of all men.”
“Stupid as a man, say the women: cowardly as a woman, say the men. Stupidity in a woman is unwomanly.”
“It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.”
“Here in America we are descended in blood and in spirit from revolutionists and rebels - men and women who dare to dissent from accepted doctrine. As their heirs, may we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion.”
“How could man rejoice in victory and delight in the slaughter of men?”
“Ignorant men raise questions that wise men answered a thousand years ago.”