“Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.”
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“From their experience or from the recorded experience of others (history), men learn only what their passions and their metaphysical prejudices allow them to learn.”
“Two things control men's nature, instinct and experience.”
“What is the price of experience? Do men buy it for a song? Or wisdom for a dance in the street? No, it is bought with the price of all the man hath, his house, his wife, his children.”
“Is it not rather what we expect in men, that they should have numerous strands of experience lying side by side and never compare them with each other?”
“Before success comes in any man's life, he's sure to meet with much temporary defeat and, perhaps some failures. When defeat overtakes a man, the easiest and the most logical thing to do is to quit. That's exactly what the majority of men do.”
“In the affairs of this world, men are saved not by faith, but by the want of it.”
“Men are swayed more by fear than by reverence.”
“If we take the generally accepted definition of bravery as a quality which knows no fear, I have never seen a brave man. All men are frightened. The more intelligent they are, the more they are frightened.”
“Men are moved by two levers only: fear and self interest.”
“There are only two forces that unite men - fear and interest.”
“It is not these well-fed long-haired men that I fear, but the pale and the hungry-looking.”
“Not necessity, not desire - no, the love of power is the demon of men. Let them have everything - health, food, a place to live, entertainment - they are and remain unhappy and low-spirited: for the demon waits and waits and will be satisfied.”
“Men are never really willing to die except for the sake of freedom: therefore they do not believe in dying completely.”
“Only free men can negotiate; prisoners cannot enter into contracts. Your freedom and mine cannot be separated.”
“Whenever men take the law into their own hands, the loser is the law. And when the law loses, freedom languishes.”
“Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.”
“Perfect friendship is the friendship of men who are good, and alike in excellence for these wish well alike to each other qua good, and they are good in themselves.”
“The assertion that 'all men are created equal' was of no practical use in effecting our separation from Great Britain and it was placed in the Declaration not for that, but for future use.”
“The danger of the past was that men became slaves. The danger of the future is that man may become robots.”
“Not only our future economic soundness but the very soundness of our democratic institutions depends on the determination of our government to give employment to idle men.”
“It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived.”
“All men are born with a nose and ten fingers, but no one was born with a knowledge of God.”
“Reputation is what men and women think of us; character is what God and angels know of us.”