Quotes
Quotes about Men
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
And all who told it added something new, and all who heard it, made enlargements too.
Truth is not exciting enough to those who depend on the characters and lives of their neighbors for all their amusement.
And all who told it added something new, And all who heard it made enlargements too.
A government of laws, and not of men.
Fear is the foundation of most governments.
The declaration that our People are hostile to a government made by themselves, for themselves, and conducted by themselves, is an insult.
Yesterday the greatest question was decided which was ever debated in America; and a greater perhaps never was, nor will be, decided among men. A resolution was passed without one dissenting colony, that those United Colonies are, and of right ought to be, free and independent States.
. . . The manners of women are the surest criterion by which to determine whether a republican government is practicable in a nation or not.
Not stones, nor wood, nor the art of artisans make a state; but where men are who know how to take care of themselves, these are cities and walls.
It [Calvinism] established a religion without a prelate, a government without a king.
Our government is the potent, the omnipresent teacher. For good or for ill, it teaches the whole people by its example. Crime is contagious. If the government becomes a law-breaker, it breeds contempt for law; it invites every man to become a law unto himself; it invites anarchy.
England is the mother of parliaments.
I am for Peace, for Retrenchment, and for Reform,--thirty years ago the great watchwords of the great Liberal Party.
Well, will anybody deny now that the Government at Washington, as regards its own people, is the strongest government in the world at this hour? And for this simple reason, that it is based on the will, and the good will, of an instructed people.
All government--indeed, every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue and every prudent act--is founded on compromise and barter.
And having looked to Government for bread, on the very first scarcity they will turn and bite the hand that fed them.
When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.
Nothing's more dull and negligent Than an old, lazy government, That knows no interest of state, But such as serves a present strait.
The marvel of all history is the patience with which men and women submit to burdens unnecessarily laid upon them by their governments.
A government is like fire, a handy servant, but a dangerous master.
Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants. Men have a right that these wants should be provided for by this wisdom.
A government is not an old pair of socks that you throw away.
A government must not waiver once it has chosen it's course. It must not look to the left or right but go forward.
The office of government is not to confer happiness, but to give men the opportunity to work out happiness for themselves.
