There have been in this century only one great man and one great thing: Napoleon and liberty. For want of the great man, let us have the great thing.
Every great man, every successful man, no matter what the field of endeavor, has known the magic that lies in these words: every adversity has the seed of an equivalent or greater benefit.
You don't think it was because a white man wrote it, a black man wrote it, a green man wrote it. What - doesn't make a difference! Doesn't make a difference. I think he did a good job.
I would prefer as friend a good man ignorant than one more clever who is evil too.
You may depend upon it that he is a good man whose intimate friends are all good, and whose enemies are decidedly bad.
Man's nature is fundamentally good, or perhaps it is neither good nor evil. In any case, man is something to work on. We must hold fast to this fact - man is something to work on.
John Danforth, I thought, was a great senator and did a great job with the United Nations. I think he's a good man.
Like you do about Nelson Mandela, you can't help feeling the guy's a good man.
The real democratic American idea is, not that every man shall be on a level with every other man, but that every man shall have liberty to be what God made him, without hindrance.
I'm not a leading man; I don't think I've got the face of a leading man, and I don't think, ever in my life, someone will cast me in the role of a leading man.
Life every man holds dear; but the dear man holds honor far more precious dear than life.
When a good man is hurt, all who would be called good must suffer with him.
He died not for men, but for each man. If each man had been the only man made, He would have done no less.
The man of wisdom is never of two minds; the man of benevolence never worries; the man of courage is never afraid.
A smart man only believes half of what he hears, a wise man knows which half.
A friend often says I'm an old man in a young man's husk. I like that. I am old-fashioned in some ways.
Never waste jealousy on a real man: it is the imaginary man that supplants us all in the long run.
There's a crystallization that goes on in a poem which the young man can bring off, but which the middle-aged man can't.
Our problems are man-made, therefore they may be solved by man. And man can be as big as he wants. No problem of human destiny is beyond human beings.
The dog has got more fun out of Man than Man has got out of the dog, for the clearly demonstrable reason that Man is the more laughable of the two animals.
The need of expansion is as genuine an instinct in man as the need in a plant for the light, or the need in man himself for going upright. The love of liberty is simply the instinct in man for expansion.
