Quotes on Men

I cannot convert men; I can only proclaim the Gospel

There is nothing so despicable as a secret society that is based upon religious prejudice and that will attempt to defeat a man because of his religious beliefs. Such a society is like a cockroach - it thrives in the dark. So do those who combine for such an end.

There is no use in running before you are sent; there is no use in attempting to do God's work without God's power. A man working without this unction, a man working without this anointing, a man working without the Holy Ghost upon him, is losing time after all.

Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young.

A lord may love the men that he commands, but he cannot be a friend to them. One day he may need to sit in judgement on them, or send them forth to die.

My atheism, like that of Spinoza, is true piety towards the universe and denies only gods fashioned by men in their own image, to be servants of their human interests.

Friends are generally of the same sex, for when men and women agree, it is only in the conclusions; their reasons are always different.

What distinguishes the majority of men from the few is their inability to act according to their beliefs.

Men might as well be imprisoned, as excluded from the means of earning their bread.

There is one front and one battle where everyone in the United States-every man, woman, and child-is in action, and will be privileged to remain in action throughout this war. That front is right here at home, in our daily lives, and in our daily tasks.

Wealth often takes away chances from men as well as poverty. There is none to tell the rich to go on striving, for a rich man makes the law that hallows and hollows his own life.

All new states are invested, more or less, by a class of noisy, second-rate men who are always in favor of rash and extreme measures, but Texas was absolutely overrun by such men.

For what's the use of talking with a man who has a disease and thinks about the stars?

The statesman who should attempt to direct private people in what manner they ought to employ their capitals would not only load himself with most unnecessary attention but assume an authority which could safely be trusted to no council and senate whatever, and which would nowhere be so dangerous as in the hands of man who have folly and presumption enough to fancy himself fit to exercise it.

One forgets too easily the difference between a man and his image, and that there is none between the sound of his voice on the screen and in real life.

Honest difference of views and honest debate are not disunity. They are the vital process of policy among free men.

The consolation of reading biography: Most great men have led lives even more miserable than our own.

A man is not aware of his virtues (if any). Nevertheless, one hopes that they exist.

Doubtless criticism was originally benignant, pointing out the beauties of a work rather that its defects. The passions of men have made it malignant, as a bad heart of Procreates turned the bed, the symbol of repose, into an instrument of torture.

The spirit of man is more important than mere physical strength, and the spiritual fiber of a nation than its wealth.

Every man should lose a battle in his youth, so he does not lose a war when he is old.