- Death
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- Nov 07, 2020
Men Quotes
Serious duty and dry humor, side by side.
Quotes about "men" here range from serious to sharply funny — one set addresses military service and daily accountability, while another pushes back on the idea that women should shape themselves around what men expect. For related themes, see Great quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Enslave
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- Nov 07, 2020
I will not attack your doctrines nor your creeds if they accord liberty to me. If they hold thought to be dangerous - if they aver that doubt is a crime, then I attack them one and all, because they enslave the minds of men.
- Heaven
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- Nov 07, 2020
There can be but little liberty on earth while men worship a tyrant in heaven.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
As long as the people persist in voting for or against men on account of their religious views, just so long will hypocrisy hold place and power.
- Nov 07, 2020
The truth is that all great men have had great mothers. Great women have had, as a rule, great fathers.
- Children
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- Nov 07, 2020
Homes make patriots. He who has sat by his own fireside with wife and children will defend it. Few men have been patriotic enough to shoulder a musket in defense of a boarding house. The prosperity and glory of our country depend upon the number of people who are the owners of homes.
- Charity
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the grave should be buried the prejudices and passions born of conflict. Charity should hold the scales in which are weighed the deeds of men.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
Civilized men are more discourteous than savages because they know they can be impolite without having their skulls split, as a general thing.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
The people among which I lived - and yet live, mainly - made their living from cotton, wheat, cattle, oil, with the usual percentage of business men and professional men.
- Violence
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- Nov 07, 2020
Violence begets violence, and then you get leaders who are violent men. And you don't want that.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
In days when the public safety is imminently threatened, and the fate of a nation may hang upon a single act, we owe frank speech, above all other men, to him who is highest in authority. I shall speak to you as man to man.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
It has always been a great wrong that these men and their families should be held in bondage.
- Moment
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is within your power at this very moment not only to consumate an act of enlightened statesmanship, but, as the instrument of the Almighty, to restore to freedom a race of men.
- Boldly
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- Nov 07, 2020
Men acquiesce in a thousand things, once righteously and boldly done, to which, if proposed to them in advance, they might find endless objections.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
Men ever follow willingly a daring leader: most willingly of all, in great emergencies.
- Idle
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- Nov 07, 2020