Quotes
Quotes about Men
Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good.
Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.
Among free men there can be no successful appeal from the ballot to the bullet.
Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good.
Men's vows are women's traitors!
It is an immense loss to have all robust and sustaining expletives refined away from one! At. moments of trial refinement is a feeble reed to lean upon.
"A fair day's wage for a fair day's work": it is as just a demand as governed men ever made of governing. It is the everlasting right of man.
Wise men never sit and wail their loss, but cheerily seek how to redress their harms.
There is no great achievement that is not the result of patient working and waiting.
Whatever we are waiting forâ peace of mind, contentment, grace, the inner awareness of simple abundanceâ it will surely come to us, but only when we are ready to receive it with an open and grateful heart.
Neither ridiculous shriekings for revenge by French chauvinists, nor the Englishmen's gnashing of teeth, nor the wild gestures of the Slavs will turn us from our aim of protecting and extending German influence all the world over.
Both Regiments or none.
'Twas in Trafalgar's bay The saucy Frenchmen lay.
Fighting men are the city's fortress.
Carry on, carry on, for the men and boys are gone, But the furrow shan't lie fallow while the women carry on.
The inevitableness, the idealism, and the blessing of war, as an indispensable and stimulating law of development, must be repeatedly emphasized.
Thucydides, an Athenian, wrote the history of the war between the Peloponnesians and the Athenians, he began at the moment that it broke out, believing that it would be a great war, and more memorable than any that had preceded it.
When every autumn people said it could not last through the winter, and when every spring there was still no end in sight, only the hope that out of it all some good would accrue to mankind kept men and nations fighting. When at last it was over, the war had many diverse results and one dominant one transcending all others: disillusion.
You know â we've had to imagine the war here, and we have imagined that it was being fought by aging men like ourselves. We had forgotten that the wars were fought by babies. When I saw those freashly shaved faces, it was a shock. 'My God, my God â' I said to myself, 'it's the Children's Crusade.'
Where is it written in the Constitution that you may take children from their parents, and parents from their children, and compel them to fight the battles of any war in which the folly or wickedness of government may engage it?
If war should sweep our commerce from the seas, another generation will restore it. If war exhausts our treasury, future industry will replenish it. If war desiccate and lay waste our fields, under new cultivation they will grow green again and ripen to future harvest. If the walls of yonder Capitol should fall and its decorations be covered by the dust of battle, all these can be rebuilt. But who shall reconstruct the fabric of a demolished government; who shall dwell in the well-proportioned columns of constitutional liberty; who shall frame together the skillful architecture which unites sovereignty with state's rights, individual security with prosperity?
Anyone who has ever looked into the glazed eyes of a soldier dying on the battlefield will think hard before starting a war. â¢Otto Von Bismarck Peace with a club in hand is war. â¢Portuguese Proverb The sinews of war are five - men, money, materials, maintenance (food) and morale. â¢Bernard Mannes Baruch The greatest conqueror is he who overcomes the enemy without a blow. â¢Chinese Proverb Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We know more about war than we know about peace, more about killing than we know about living. We have grasped the mystery of the atom and rejected the Sermon on the Mount.
Only two great groups of animals, men and ants, indulge in highly organized mass warfare.
The Establishment center... has led us into the stupidest and cruelest war in all history. That war is a moral and political disaster - a terrible cancer eating away at the soul of our nation.
War is not merely a political act but a real political instrument, a continuation of political intercourse, a carrying out of the same by other means.
