The economic and political roots of the conflicts are too strong for us to pretend to create a lasting state of harmonious understanding between men.
For then only will you be strong, when you cherish the laws, and when the revolutionary attempts of lawless men shall have ceased.
Men of New England, I hold you to the doctrines of liberty which ye inherit from your Puritan forefathers.
An American monkey, after getting drunk on brandy, would never touch it again, and thus is much wiser than most men.
I am an agnostic; I do not pretend to know what many ignorant men are sure of.
A zeal for the defence of their country led these heroes to the scene of action, though with a few men to attack a powerful army of experienced warriors.
Communism feeds on aggression, hatred, and the imprisonment of men's minds and souls. This shall not take root in the United States.
Beware prejudices. They are like rats, and men's minds are like traps; prejudices get in easily, but it is doubtful if they ever get out.
Put two or three men in positions of conflicting authority. This will force them to work at loggerheads, allowing you to be the ultimate arbiter.
The moral and spiritual aspects of both personal and international relationships have a practical bearing which so-called practical men deny.
That is no use at all. What I want is men who will support me when I am in the wrong.
The only distribution of wealth which is the product of labor, which will be honest, will come through a more equal distribution of the productive capacity of men.
The brave men who died in Vietnam, more than 100% of which were black, were the ultimate sacrifice.
Trees, though they are cut and loped, grow up again quickly, but if men are destroyed, it is not easy to get them again.
They really do a disservice because these men and women came out of the Depression, they came out of the war.
Men acquiesce in a thousand things, once righteously and boldly done, to which, if proposed to them in advance, they might find endless objections.
Most men remember obligations, but are not often likely to be grateful; the proud are made sour by the remembrance and the vain silent.
The world is not looking for servants, there are plenty of these, but for masters, men who form their purposes and then carry them out, let the consequences be what they may.
Princeton is no longer a thing for Princeton men to please themselves with. Princeton is a thing with which Princeton men must satisfy the country.
The only use of an obstacle is to be overcome. All that an obstacle does with brave men is, not to frighten them, but to challenge them.
Whenever you see a successful woman, look out for three men who are going out of their way to try to block her.