Men Quotes
The Pacts and Covenants, by which the parts of this Body Politique were at first made, set together, and united, resemble that Fiat, or the Let us make man, pronounced by God in the Creation.
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He that has most experience [is] so much more prudent than he that is new, as not to be equalled by any advantage of natural and extemporary wit- though many young men think the contrary.
A Covenant not to defend myself from force, by force, is always void. For... no man can transfer or lay down his Right to save himself from Death.
O men with sisters dear, O men with mothers and wives, It is not linen you 're wearing out, But human creatures' lives!
Heaven, they say, protects children, sailors, and drunken men; and whatever answers to Heaven in the academical system protects freshmen.
Of the few innocent pleasures left to men past middle life, the jamming of common sense down the throats of fools is perhaps the keenest.
The man who is all morality and intellect, although he may be good and even great, is, after all, only half a man.
I wish you would let an old man, who has had his share of fighting, remind you that battles, like hypotheses, are not to be multiplied beyond necessity.
If a man cannot see a church, it is preposterous to take his opinion about its altar-piece or painted window.
Surely it must be plain that an ingenious man could speculate without end on both sides, and find analogies for all his dreams. Nor does it help me to tell me that the aspirations of mankind
Nothing great in science has ever been done by men, whatever their powers, in whom the divine afflatus of the truth-seeker was wanting.
That man, I think, has had a liberal education, who has been so trained in youth that his body is the ready servant of his will.
Slavery is an abomination and must be loudly proclaimed as such, but I own that I nor any other man has any immediate solution to the problem.
No race of kings has ever presented above one man of common sense in twenty generations.
The Habeas Corpus secures every man here, alien or citizen, against everything which is not law, whatever shape it may assume.
If thinking men would have the courage to think for themselves, and to speak what they think, it would be found they do not differ in religious opinions as much as is supposed.
The opinions and beliefs of men follow involuntarily the evidence proposed to their minds.
Every day is lost in which we do not learn something useful. Man has no nobler or more valuable possession than time.
While learning the language in France a young man's morals, health and fortune are more irresistibly endangered than in any country of the universe.
Travelling. ... when men of sober age travel, they gather knowlege which they may apply usefully for their country
the study of the law is useful in a variety of points of view. it qualifies a man to be useful to himself, to his neighbors, & to the public.
If the Wise be the happy man... he must be virtuous too; for, without virtue, happiness cannot be. This then is the true scope of all academical emulation.
No experiment can be more interesting than that we are now trying, and which we trust will end in establishing the fact, that man may be governed by reason and truth.
Our ancestors ... possessed a right, which nature has given to all men, of departing from the country in which chance, not choice has placed them.
Men possessing minds of the first order and who have had opportunities of being known and of acquiring the general confidence do not abound in any country beyond the wants of the country.
Men of high learning and abilities are few in every country; and by taking in those who are not so, the able part of the body have their hands tied by the unable.
I rejoice when I hear of young men of virtue and talents, worthy to receive and likely to preserve the splendid inheritance of self- government, which we have acquired and shaped for them.
the boys of the rising generation are to be the men of the next, and the sole guardians of the principles we deliver over to them.
I don't want them to kill no hog . . . . I want a man to go to that chair, on his own two feet.
It is surely time for men to think for themselves, and to throw off the authority of names so artificially magnified.
No man will ever bring out of the Presidency the reputation which carries him into it. To myself, personally, it brings nothing but increasing drudgery and daily loss of friends.
Man ... feels that he is a participator in the government of affairs not merely at an election, one day in the year, but every day.
No man has greater confidence than I have in the spirit of the people, to a rational extent. Whatever they can, they will.
The greatest honor of a man is in doing good to his fellow men, not in destroying them.
I feel much alarmed at the prospect of seeing General Jackson President. He is the most unfit man I know for such a place.
I endeavor to keep their attention fixed on the main objects of all science, the freedom & happiness of man.
this interesting subject, which, if the condition of man is to be progressively ameliorated, as we fondly hope and believe, is to be the chief instrument in effecting it.
I have so much confidence in the good sense of man, and his qualifications for self-government, that I am never afraid of the issue where reason is left free to exert her force.
Every man's reason is his own rightful umpire. This principle, with that of acquiescence in the will of the majority, will preserve us free and prosperous as long as they are sacredly observed.
If virtuous, the government need not fear the fair operation of attack and defense. Nature has given to man no other means of sifting the truth, either in religion, law, or politics.
