You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break.

When men think and believe in one set of symbols and act in ways which are contrary to their professed and conscious ideas confusion and insincerity are bound to result

Men occasionally stumble over the truth but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.

In every society some men are born to rule and some to advise.

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.

I suppose when they reach a certain age some men are afraid to grow up. It seems the older the men get the younger their new wives get.

It is from a weakness and smallness of mind that men are opinionated, and we are very loath to believe what we are not able to comprehend.

Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young.

One thought fills immensity.

You will find men who want to be carried on the shoulders of others who think that the world owes them a living. They don't seem to see that we must all lift together and pull together.

Beauty attracts us men, but if like an armed magnet it is pointed beside with gold and silver it attracts with tenfold power.

I once heard two ladies going on and on about the pains of childbirth and how men don't seem to know what real pain is. I asked if either of them ever got themselves caught in a zipper.

Lives of great men all remind us we can make our lives sublime and departing leave behind us footprints on the sands of time.

It is wrong to assume that men of immense wealth are always happy.

Men are more moral than they think and far more immoral than they can imagine.

Civilization is the progress toward a society of privacy. The savage's whole existence is public ruled by the laws of his tribe. Civilization is the process of setting man free from men.

We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution, but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution.

It takes time to persuade men to do even what is for their own good.

What is grand is necessarily obscure to weak men. That which can be made explicit to the idiot is not worth my care.

Most men are individuals no longer so far as their business its activities or its moralities are concerned. They are not units but fractions.

We are all the President's men.

Every creature is better alive than dead men and moose and pine trees and he who understands it aright will rather preserve its life than destroy it.

The men who have guided the destiny of the United States have found the strength for their tasks by going to their knees. This private unity of public men and their God is an enduring source of reassurance for the people of America.

Men should pledge themselves to nothing, for reflection makes a liar of their resolution.

Men won't read any email from a woman that's over 200 words long.

Men are not punished for their sins but by them.

I will not be concerned at other men's not knowing me, I will be concerned at my own want of ability.

Boys will be boys and so will a lot of middle-aged men.

Violence and arms can never resolve the problems of men.

Don't think of yourself as indispensable or infallible. As Charles De Gaulle said the cemeteries of the world are full of indispensable men.

If men would consider not so much where they differ as wherein they agree there would be far less of uncharitableness and angry feeling in the world

Men rise from one ambition to another: first they seek to secure themselves against attack and then they attack others.

There is a boundary to men's passions when they act from feelings, but none when they are under the influence of imagination.

Forgive son, men are men, they needs must err.

Histories make men wise, poets witty, the mathematics subtile, natural philosophy deep, moral grave, logic and rhetoric able to contend.

Having federal officials whether judges bureaucrats or congressmen impose a new definition of marriage on the people is an act of social engineering profoundly hostile to liberty.

One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.

If so many men so many minds certainly so many hearts so many kinds of love.

Great things are done when men and mountains meet, This is not done by jostling in the street

Justice consists in doing no injury to men, decency in giving them no offense.

Now I see that going out into the testing ground of men it is the tongue and not the deed that wins the day.

Nine men in ten are would be suicides.

It's not the men in my life that count it's the life in my men.

A man is a god in ruins. When men are innocent life shall be longer and shall pass into the immortal as gently as we awake from dreams.

Time destroys the speculation of men but it confirms nature.

Sacred and inspired divinity the sabaoth and port of all men's labours and peregrinations.

Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect.

Food conditions the nature of the mind. Mind guides the thinking. Thinking results in action. Actions lead to commensurate or matching results and effects. This chain of action between the food we eat and the results of our actions highlights the fact that meat eating leads to beastly actions and the concomitant evil effects.

Throughout the centuries there were men who took first steps down new roads armed with nothing but their own vision.

When men are easy in their circumstances they are naturally enemies to innovations.

The ideas gained by men before they are twenty-five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.

Fish tortoises and birds bring up their young by means of sight attention and touch, so do saintly men afford protection to their associates by the same means.

Hereditary bondsmen! know ye not / Who would be free themselves must strike the blow?

Frenchmen have an unlimited capacity for gallantry and indulge it on every occasion.

Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others.

When a hundred men stand together each of them loses his mind and gets another one.

The man of noble mind seeks to achieve the good in others and not their evil. The little-minded man is the reverse of this.

Once men are caught up in an event they cease to be afraid. Only the unknown frightens men.

The poor wish for wealth, animals for the faculty of speech, men wish for heaven, and godly persons for liberation.

Those men who are happy in this world who are generous towards their relatives kind to strangers indifferent to the wicked loving to the good shrewd in their dealings with the base frank with the learned courageous with enemies humble with elders and stern with the wife.

The historian must have some conception of how men who are not historians behave. Otherwise he will move in a world of the dead. He can only gain that conception through personal experience and he can only use his personal experiences when he is a genius.

Ignorant men raise questions that wise men answered a thousand years ago.

Human values should predominate in men Sai Baba

Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.

In reading the lives of great men I found that the first victory they won was over themselves... self-discipline with all of them came first.

If you would convince a man that he does wrong do right. Men will believe what they see.

Men show their character in nothing more clearly than what they think laughable.

Few businessmen are capable of being in politics they don't understand the democratic process they have neither the tolerance or the depth it takes. Democracy isn't a business.

For one man who thanks God that he is not as other men there are a thousand to offer thanks that they are as other men sufficiently as others are to escape attention

To say that a work of art is good but incomprehensible to the majority of men is the same as saying of some kind of food that it is very good but that most people can't eat it.

It is indolence... Indolence and love of ease, a want of all laudable ambition of taste for good company or of inclination to take the trouble of being agreeable which make men clergymen. A clergyman has nothing to do but be slovenly and selfish, read the newspaper watch the weather and quarrel with his wife. His curate does all the work and the business of his own life is to dine.

Choose silence of all virtues for by it you hear other men's imperfections and conceal your own.

Only the wisest and stupidest of men never change.

The greatest enemy to human souls is the self-righteous spirit which makes men look to themselves for salvation.

No man has any natural authority over his fellow men.

Poor men's reasons are not heard.

A man who has nothing for which he is willing to fight nothing which is more important than his own personal safety is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.

All brave men love, for he only is brave who has affections to fight for whether in the daily battle of life or in physical contests.

There are only two kinds of men: the righteous who think they are sinners and the sinners who think they are righteous.

Therefore kings gather round themselves men of good families for they never forsake them either at the beginning the middle or the end.

It has always seemed strange to me... the things we admire in men kindness and generosity openness honesty understanding and feeling are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest sharpness greed acquisitiveness meanness egotism and self-interest are the traits of success. And while men admire the quality of the first they love the produce of the second.

What makes men indifferent to their wives is that they can see them when they please.

Heights by great men reached and kept were not obtained by sudden flight but while their companions slept they were toiling upward in the night.

The first rule of business is: Do other men for they would do you.

I don't think feminism as I understand the definition implies the rejection of maternal values nurturing children caring about the men in your life. That is just nonsense to me.

Men love in haste but they detest at leisure.

For my name and memory I leave to men's charitable speeches and to foreign nations and the next ages.

The superpowers often behave like two heavily armed blind men feeling their way around a room each believing himself in mortal peril from the other whom he assumes to have perfect vision.

It is not titles that honor men but men that honor titles.

The search after the great men is the dream of youth and the most serious occupation of manhood.

Nothing doth more hurt in a state than that cunning men pass for wise.

To feel for none is the true social art of the world's stoics - men without a heart

It is not so much for its beauty that the forest makes a claim upon men's hearts as for that subtle something that quality of air that emanation from old trees that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit.

Whatever crushes individuality is despotism by whatever name it may be called and whether it professes to be enforcing the will of God or the injunctions of men.

Great men are like eagles and build their nest on some lofty solitude.

Ten men waiting for me at the door? Send one of them home I'm tired.

No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men.

Since the generality of persons act from impulse much more than from principle men are neither so good nor so bad as we are apt to think them.

Generally young men are regarded as radicals. This is a popular misconception. The most conservative persons I ever met are college undergraduates. The radicals are the men past middle life.

Let the ruling classes tremble at a communist revolution. The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win. Workingmen of all countries unite!

How absurd men are! They never use the liberties they have they demand those they do not have. They have freedom of thought they demand freedom of speech.

When the sword is once drawn the passions of men observe no bounds of moderation.

In superstition wise men follow fools

Men are so willing to respect anything that bores them.

Good men must not obey the laws too well.

Man being reasonable must get drunk, The best of life is but intoxication, Glory the grape, love gold - in these are sunk - The hopes of all men and of every nation.

The way of fortune is like the milky way in the sky, which is a number of smaller stars not seen asunder but giving light together, so it is a number of little and scarce discerned virtues or rather faculties and customs that make men fortunate.