Danh ngôn thuộc danh mục: men

Men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all the other alternatives.

Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution.

The assertion that 'all men are created equal' was of no practical use in effecting our separation from Great Britain and it was placed in the Declaration not for that, but for future use.

Our defense is in the preservation of the spirit which prizes liberty as a heritage of all men, in all lands, everywhere. Destroy this spirit and you have planted the seeds of despotism around your own doors.

Gold is good in its place; but loving, brave, patriotic men are better than gold.

I have talked with great men, and I do not see how they differ from others.

I believe it is universally understood and acknowledged that all men will ever act correctly, unless they have a motive to do otherwise.

Whenever I had been racially vilified before it had been by peers or drunk men. It's more shocking when it's a 13-year-old child. No 13-year-old is racist.

As soon as the land of any country has all become private property, the landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed, and demand a rent even for its natural produce.

The propensity to truck, barter and exchange one thing for another is common to all men, and to be found in no other race of animals.

I know how men in exile feed on dreams.

It is always in season for old men to learn.

Men often applaud an imitation and hiss the real thing.

Men are convinced of your arguments, your sincerity, and the seriousness of your efforts only by your death.

Men must live and create. Live to the point of tears.

A man is ethical only when life, as such, is sacred to him, that of plants and animals as that of his fellow men, and when he devotes himself helpfully to all life that is in need of help.

That all men are equal is a proposition to which, at ordinary times, no sane human being has ever given his assent.

That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history.

Conservation is a state of harmony between men and land.

America is a country of inventors, and the greatest of inventors are the newspaper men.

Men often oppose a thing merely because they have had no agency in planning it, or because it may have been planned by those whom they dislike.

When the sword is once drawn, the passions of men observe no bounds of moderation.

Why has government been instituted at all? Because the passions of men will not conform to the dictates of reason and justice, without constraint.

Men must be taught as if you taught them not, and things unknown proposed as things forgot.

Soldiers, I had lately like to have been taken from you by the attempt of a few desperate men, but by the grace and providence of the gods, I am still preserved.

All great men are gifted with intuition. They know without reasoning or analysis, what they need to know.

It is the dissimilarities and inequalities among men which give rise to the notion of honor; as such differences become less, it grows feeble; and when they disappear, it will vanish too.

I cannot help fearing that men may reach a point where they look on every new theory as a danger, every innovation as a toilsome trouble, every social advance as a first step toward revolution, and that they may absolutely refuse to move at all.

What is most important for democracy is not that great fortunes should not exist, but that great fortunes should not remain in the same hands. In that way there are rich men, but they do not form a class.

There is a strange kind of human being in whom there is an eternal struggle between body and soul, animal and god, for dominance. In all great men this mixture is striking, and in none more so than in Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.

Do not share the knowledge with which you have been blessed with everyone in general, as you do with some people in particular; and know that there are some men in whom Allah, may He be glorified, has placed hidden secrets, which they are forbidden to reveal.

Experience is the only prophecy of wise men.

First find the man in yourself if you will inspire manliness in others.

For books are more than books, they are the life, the very heart and core of ages past, the reason why men worked and died, the essence and quintessence of their lives.

Some men do think I'm a psycho bunny-boiler.

Men would live exceedingly quiet if these two words, mine and thine, were taken away.

The 'morality of compromise' sounds contradictory. Compromise is usually a sign of weakness, or an admission of defeat. Strong men don't compromise, it is said, and principles should never be compromised.

I shall argue that strong men, conversely, know when to compromise and that all principles can be compromised to serve a greater principle.

The men who have succeeded are men who have chosen one line and stuck to it.

All of our affairs, since the union of crowns, have been managed by the advice of English ministers, and the principal offices of the kingdom filled with such men, as the court of England knew would be subservient to their designs.

The planter, the farmer, the mechanic, and the laborer... form the great body of the people of the United States, they are the bone and sinew of the country men who love liberty and desire nothing but equal rights and equal laws.

I swear by that old expression, 'One monkey don't stop no show!' The reality is, we still have some good men out there, and we should hail those men as the kings they are.

Millions of men have lived to fight, build palaces and boundaries, shape destinies and societies; but the compelling force of all times has been the force of originality and creation profoundly affecting the roots of human spirit.

No man has the right to dictate what other men should perceive, create or produce, but all should be encouraged to reveal themselves, their perceptions and emotions, and to build confidence in the creative spirit.

Only the unknown frightens men. But once a man has faced the unknown, that terror becomes the known.

The straight line belongs to men, the curved one to God.

It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.

Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting in a particular way.

Bad men are full of repentance.