Men Quotes

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

We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

Books constitute capital. A library book lasts as long as a house, for hundreds of years. It is not, then, an article of mere consumption but fairly of capital, and often in the case of professional men, setting out in life, it is their only capital.

Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of liberty.

As our enemies have found we can reason like men, so now let us show them we can fight like men also.

An association of men who will not quarrel with one another is a thing which has never yet existed, from the greatest confederacy of nations down to a town meeting or a vestry.

I have no ambition to govern men; it is a painful and thankless office.

There is a natural aristocracy among men. The grounds of this are virtue and talents.

Little men with little minds and little imaginations go through life in little ruts, smugly resisting all changes which would jar their little worlds.

We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men.

Things that I felt absolutely sure of but a few years ago, I do not believe now. This thought makes me see more clearly how foolish it would be to expect all men to agree with me.

All the problems of the world could be settled easily if men were only willing to think. The trouble is that men very often resort to all sorts of devices in order not to think, because thinking is such hard work.

I am looking for a lot of men who have an infinite capacity to not know what can't be done.

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.

Time and money spent in helping men to do more for themselves is far better than mere giving.

The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws.