Men
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Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
We must become bigger than we have been: more courageous, greater in spirit, larger in outlook. We must become members of a new race, overcoming petty prejudice, owing our ultimate allegiance not to nations but to our fellow men within the human community.
Bachelors have consciences, married men have wives.
Beware, so long as you live, of judging men by their outward appearance.
The reason why men enter into society is the preservation of their property.
I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts.
Treat all men alike. Give them the same law. Give them an even chance to live and grow.
Religion fails if it cannot speak to men as they are.
Men speak of natural rights, but I challenge any one to show where in nature any rights existed or were recognized until there was established for their declaration and protection a duly promulgated body of corresponding laws.
The men who have succeeded are men who have chosen one line and stuck to it.
Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude.
Men are the dreams of a shadow.
The average bright young man who is drafted hates the whole business because an army always tries to eliminate the individual differences in men.
Reflect upon your present blessings of which every man has many — not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.
Men should strive to think much and know little.
There is frequently more to be learned from the unexpected questions of a child than the discourses of men.
Our defense is in the preservation of the spirit which prizes liberty as a heritage of all men, in all lands, everywhere. Destroy this spirit and you have planted the seeds of despotism around your own doors.
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.
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