Quotes
Quotes about Men
The most urgent necessity in human life is to be able to face life victoriously. For many are living mentally, physically, morally and spiritually defeated.
America is not fighting to win a war. We are fighting to give an application to an old Greek proverb, which is that the purpose of war is not to annihilate an enemy but to get him to mend his ways. And we are confident we can get the enemy to mend his.
Experience should teach us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government's purposes are beneficent.
Football is a mistake. It combines the two worst elements of American life. Violence and committee meetings.
Victory attained by violence is tantamount to a defeat, for it is momentary.
The use of violence as an instrument of persuasion is therefore inviting and seems to the discontented to be the only effective protest.
Violence has no constitutional sanction; and every government from the beginning has moved against it. But where grievances pile high and most of the elected spokesmen represent the Establishment, violence may be the only effective response.
The violets whisper from the shade Which their own leaves have made: Men scent our fragrance on the air, Yet take no heed Of humble lessons we would read.
An isolated outbreak of virginity is a rash on the face of society. It arouses only pity from the married, and embarrassment from the single.
Virtue is not malicious; wrong done her Is righted even when men grant they err.
All great virtues become great men. [Fr., Toutes grandes vertus conviennent aux grands hommes.]
A homely face and no figure have aided many women heavenward.
For what is done or learned by one class of women becomes, by virtue of their common womanhood, the property of all women.
Virtue must be valuable, if men and women of all degrees pretend to have it.
It is only the women whose eyes have been washed clear with tears who get the broad vision that makes them little sisters to all the world.
The people's prayer, the glad diviner's theme! The young men's vision, and the old men's dream.
Hence, dear delusion, sweet enchantment hence! - Horace Smith and James Smith,
Fond man! the vision of a moment made! Dream of a dream! and shadow of a shade!
It is the safeguard of the strongest that he lives under a government which is obliged to respect the voice of the weakest.
Lower your voice and strengthen your argument.
At some glad moment was it nature's choice To dower a scrap of sunset with a voice?
Service is never a simple act; it's about sacrifice for others and about accomplishment for ourselves, about reaching out, one person to another, about all our choices gathered together as a country to reach across all our divides.
There is a tremendous strength that is growing in the world through... sharing together, praying together, suffering together, and working together.
No matter who you vote for, the Government always gets in.
... the instrument and symbol of a freeman's power to make a fool of himself and a wreck of his country.
