Men
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Can you imagine a world without men? No crime and lots of happy fat women.
I see Americans of every party, every background, every faith who believe that we are stronger together: black, white, Latino, Asian, Native American; young, old; gay, straight; men, women, folks with disabilities, all pledging allegiance under the same proud flag to this big, bold country that we love. That's what I see. That's the America I know!
Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual life.
Men are like wine — some turn to vinegar, but the best improve with age.
Adversity causes some men to break; others to break records.
What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like.
The tragedy of life is in what dies inside a man while he lives — the death of genuine feeling, the death of inspired response, the awareness that makes it possible to feel the pain or the glory of other men in yourself.
The vote is the most powerful instrument ever devised by man for breaking down injustice and destroying the terrible walls which imprison men because they are different from other men.
If we desire a society in which men are brothers, then we must act towards one another with brotherhood. If we can build such a society, then we would have achieved the ultimate goal of human freedom.
We sleep safe in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do us harm.
Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men!
I shall argue that strong men, conversely, know when to compromise and that all principles can be compromised to serve a greater principle.
Women lie about their age; men lie about their income.
Passion makes idiots of the cleverest men, and makes the biggest idiots clever.
If I have learned anything, it is to keep my wife happy by sending her lavish gifts. Other men can learn from my success and send their wives and girlfriends fresh flowers for birthdays, anniversaries, and of course, Valentine's Day.
The world of men is dreaming, it has gone mad in its sleep, and a snake is strangling it, but it can't wake up.
Such is the nature of men, that howsoever they may acknowledge many others to be more witty, or more eloquent, or more learned; yet they will hardly believe there be many so wise as themselves.
There are seasons in every country when noise and impudence pass current for worth; and in popular commotions especially, the clamors of interested and factious men are often mistaken for patriotism.
The superior man governs men, according to their nature, with what is proper to them, and as soon as they change what is wrong, he stops.
Again, men in general desire the good, and not merely what their fathers had.
