Quotes on One Man

The worst cliques are those which consist of one man.

Now what is Judge Douglas Popular Sovereignty? It is, as a principle, no other than that, if one man chooses to make a slave of another man, neither that other man nor anybody else has a right to object.

I would rather teach one man to pray than ten men to preach.

To teach a man how he may learn to grow independently, and for himself, is perhaps the greatest service that one man can do another.

It's one of the tragic ironies of the theatre that only one man in it can count on steady work - the night watchman.

When will the world learn that a million men are of no importance compared with one man?

The observant man recognizes many mysteries into which he can not pretend to see, and he remembers that the world is too wide for the eye of one man. But the modern sophists are sure of everything, especially if it contradicts the Bible.

In proportion as our own mind is enlarged we discover a greater number of men of originality. Commonplace people see no difference between one man and another.

This nation was founded by men of many nations and backgrounds. It was founded on the principle that all men are created equal, and that the rights of every man are diminished when the rights of one man are threatened ... It ought to to be possible, in short, for every American to enjoy the privileges of being American without regard to his race or his color.

The combative instinct is a savage prompting by which one man's good is found in another's evil.

One man with a gun can control 100 without one.

One man pins me to the wall, while with another I walk among the stars

If one man offers you democracy and another offers you a bag of grain, at what stage of starvation do you prefer the grain to the vote?

Knowledge is, indeed, that which, next to virtue, truly and essentially raises one man above another.

Freedom is indivisible, and when one man is enslaved, all are not free.

If you are one of earth’s inhabitants, how blest your father, and your gentle mother, blest all your kin. I know what happiness must send the warm tears to their eyes, each time they see their wondrous child go to the dancing! But one man’s destiny is more than blest—he who prevails, and takes you as his bride. Never have I laid eyes on equal beauty in man or woman. I am hushed indeed.

One man can be a crucial ingredient on a team, but one man cannot make a team.

This life is a hospital where every patient is possessed with the desire to change beds; one man would like to suffer in front of the stove, and another believes that he would recover his health beside the window.

To explain all nature is too difficult a task for any one man or even for any one age

Our story is never written in isolation. We do not act in a one-man play. We can do nothing that does not affect other people, no matter how loudly we say, "It's my own business.

Tell them I came, and no one answered, That I kept my word," he said. Never the least stir made the listeners, Though every word he spake Fell echoing through the shadowiness of the still house From the one man left awake: Ay, they heard his foot upon the stirrup, And the sound of iron on stone, And how the silence surged softly backward, When the plunging hoofs were gone.