Men Quotes

The true fountains of evidence [are] the head and heart of every rational and honest man. It is there nature has written her moral laws, and where every man may read them for himself.

Men are disposed to live honestly, if the means of doing so are open to them.

The sickly, weakly, timid man fears the people, and is a Tory by nature. The healthy, strong and bold cherishes them, and is formed a Whig by nature.

The introduction of so powerful an agent as steam [to a carriage on wheels] will make a great change in the situation of man.

While old men feel sensibly enough their own advance in years, they do not sufficiently recollect it in those whom they have seenyoung.

The opinions of men should not be the object of any government. Our civil rights are no more dependent on our religious beliefs than they are dependent upon our thoughts about geometry or physics!

never trust a man who won't accept that there is more than one way to spell a word Paraphrased

Every man is under the natural duty of contributing to the necessities of the society; and this is all the laws should enforce on him.

We act not for ourselves but for the whole human race. The event of our experiment is to show whether man can be trusted with self - government.

It is wonderful to me that old men should not be sensible that their minds keep pace with their bodies in the progress of decay.

There is a fulness of time when men should go, and not occupy too long the ground to which others have a right to advance.

By nature's law, man is at peace with man till some aggression is committed, which, by the same law, authorizes one to destroy another as his enemy.

No knowledge can be more satisfactory to a man than that of his own frame, its parts, their functions and actions.

Without society, and a society to our taste, men are never contented.

No man will ever carry out of the Presidency the reputation which carried him into it.

Our wish is that...[there be] maintained that state of property, equal or unequal, which results to every man from his own industry or that of his fathers.

Man yields to death; and man's sublimest works Must yield at length to Time.

Time, the foe of man's dominion, Wheels around in ceaseless flight, Scattering from his hoary pinion Shades of everlasting night.

Man cannot live in the midst of plenty.

For the sake of goodness and love, man shall let death have no sovereignty over his thoughts.

Many modern scholars have found the asceticism expressed in Plato unacceptable; it does not sound like the advice of a reasonable man in the Cartesian tradition.

He was a man of great statue

The only right way: to love and serve the man of the modern world, but not simply to succumb, with him, to all his illusions about the world.

. . . the state of things and the dispositions of men were then such, that a man could not well tell whom he might trust or whom he might fear.

The worst thing an old man can be is a lover.

Ere man's corruptions made him wretched, he Was born most noble that was born most free; Each of himself was lord; and unconfin'd Obey'd the dictates of his godlike mind.

Greatness, thou gaudy torment of out souls, The wise man's fetter, and the rage of fools.

O woman! lovely woman! Nature made thee To temper man: we had been brutes without you.

Nature is God's. Art is man's instrument.

The protection of a man's person is more sacred than the protection of his property.

There exists in man a mass of sense lying in a dormant state, and which, unless something excites it to action, will descend with him, in that condition,to the grave.

Men who look upon themselves born to reign, and others to obey, soon grow insolent; selected from the rest of mankind their minds are early poisoned by importance.

No man is prejudiced in favor of a thing, knowing it to be wrong. He is attached to it on the belief of its being right; and when he sees it is not so, the prejudice will be gone.

It is painful to behold a man employing his talents to corrupt himself.

Whatever is my right as a man is also the right of another; and it becomes my duty to guarantee as well as to possess.

Every Tory is a coward; for servile, slavish, self-interested fear is the foundation of Toryism; and a man under such influence, though he may be cruel, never can be brave.

Man cannot make, or invent, or contrive principles; he can only discover them; and he ought to look through the discovery to the Author.

Better fare hard with good men than feast it with bad.

Man did not make the earth, and though he had a natural right to occupy it, he had no right to locate as his property in perpetuity, any part of it.

The more men have to lose, the less willing are they to venture.

Accustom a people to believe that priests, or any other class of men can forgive sins and you will have sins in abundance.

The moral duty of man consists of imitatingthe moral goodness and beneficence of God,manifested in the creation, toward all His creatures.

A man will pass better through the world with a thousand open errors upon his back than in being detected in one sly falsehood. When one is detected, a thousand are suspected.

The people of America are a people of property; almost every man is a freeholder.

It may perhaps be said that it signifies nothing to a man what is done to him after he is dead; but it signifies much to the living; it either tortures their feelings or hardens their hearts.

They may be all comprehended under three heads - 1st, Superstition; 2d, Power; 3d, the common interests of society, and the common rights of man.

Oppression is often the consequence, but seldom or never the means of riches; and tho' avarice will preserve a man from being necessitously poor, it generally makes him too timorous to be wealthy.

Titles are like a magicians wand which circumscribe human facility and prevent us from living the lives of man.

When the tongue or the pen is let loose in a frenzy of passion, it is the man, and not the subject, that becomes exhausted.

These are the days that try man's heart.