“I have never found a companion that was so companionable as solitude. We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers. A man thinking or working is always alone, let him be where he will.”
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“Rhetoric is the art of ruling the minds of men.”
“Only the wisest and stupidest of men never change.”
“Wisdom, compassion, and courage are the three universally recognized moral qualities of men.”
“The generality of men are naturally apt to be swayed by fear rather than reverence, and to refrain from evil rather because of the punishment that it brings than because of its own foulness.”
“When bad men combine, the good must associate else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.”
“Government is an association of men who do violence to the rest of us.”
“Nothing in the affairs of men is worthy of great anxiety.”
“It is not history which uses men as a means of achieving - as if it were an individual person - its own ends. History is nothing but the activity of men in pursuit of their ends.”
“The time is near at hand which must determine whether Americans are to be free men or slaves.”
“Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect.”
“Men have become the tools of their tools.”
“Men are strong so long as they represent a strong idea they become powerless when they oppose it.”
“As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.”
“Those who excel in virtue have the best right of all to rebel, but then they are of all men the least inclined to do so.”
“Let your Discourse with Men of Business be Short and Comprehensive.”
“I have thought there was some advantage even in death, by which we mingle with the herd of common men.”
“Life levels all men. Death reveals the eminent.”
“Men are convinced of your arguments, your sincerity, and the seriousness of your efforts only by your death.”
“Death is not the worst that can happen to men.”
“Foolish men imagine that because judgment for an evil thing is delayed, there is no justice but only accident here below. Judgment for an evil thing is many times delayed some day or two, some century or two, but it is sure as life, it is sure as death.”
“Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.”
“In America everybody is of the opinion that he has no social superiors, since all men are equal, but he does not admit that he has no social inferiors, for, from the time of Jefferson onward, the doctrine that all men are equal applies only upwards, not downwards.”
“Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.”