Quotes
Quotes about Man
It is time I stepped aside for a less experienced and less able man.
I am closing my 52 years of military service. When I joined the army, even before the turn of the century, it was the fulfillment of all my boyish hopes and dreams. The world has turned over many times since I took the oath on the plain at West Point, and the hopes and dreams have long since vanished, but I still remember the refrain of one of the most barracks ballads of that day which proclaimed most proudly that old soldiers never die; they just fade away. And like the old soldier of that ballad, I now close my military career and just fade away, an old soldier who tried to do his duty as God gave him the light to see that duty. Goodbye.
A man is known by the company that keeps him on after retirement age.
By taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing over it, he is superior.
Revenge is a kind of wild justice; which the more man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out.
'Tis more noble to forgive, and more manly to despise, than to revenge an Injury.
No one rejoices more in revenge than woman. [Lat., Vindicta Nemo magis gaudet quam foemina.]
Revenge is an inhuman word. [Lat., Inhumanum verbum est ultio.]
In taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing it over, he is superior.
A man that studieth revenge keeps his own wounds green, which otherwise would heal and do well.
Avoid revolution or expect to get shot. Mother and I will grieve, but we will gladly buy a dinner for the National Guardsman who shot you.
Many of the world's troubles are not due just to Russia or communism. They would be with us in any event because we live in an era of revolution--the revolution of rising expectations.
It is the amends of a short and troublesome life, that doing good and suffering ill entitles man to a longer and better.
No man, who continues to add something to the material, intellectual and moral well-being of the place in which he lives, is left long without proper reward.
You shall never have it, The free German Rhine. [Ger., Sie sollen ihn nicht haben Den freien deutschen Rhein.]
Oh, sweet thy current by town and by tower, The green sunny vale and the dark linden bower; Thy waves as they dimple smile back on the plain, And Rhine, ancient river, thou'rt German again!
Man learns more readily and remembers more willingly what excites his ridicule than what deserves esteem and respect.
Man learns more readily and remembers more willingly what excites his ridicule than what deserves esteem and respect.
A man does not attain the status of Galileo merely because he is persecuted; he must also be right.
For the ultimate notion of right is that which tends to the universal good; and when one's acting in a certain manner has this tendency he has a right thus to act. - Francis Hutcheson,
Among the natural rights of the colonists are these: First a right to life, secondly to liberty, thirdly to property; together with the right to defend them in the best manner they can.
They made and recorded a sort of institute and digest of anarchy, called the rights of man.
Where there is a human being, I see God-given rights inherent in that being, whatever may be the sex or complexion.
The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins.
Every man has by the law of nature a right to such a waste portion of the earth as is necessary for his subsistence.
