Men
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Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not: nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not: the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.
The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
Reputation is what men and women think of us; character is what God and angels know of us.
Beware, so long as you live, of judging men by their outward appearance.
I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts.
Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers.
Religion fails if it cannot speak to men as they are.
We sleep safe in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do us harm.
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.
I shall argue that strong men, conversely, know when to compromise and that all principles can be compromised to serve a greater principle.
The average bright young man who is drafted hates the whole business because an army always tries to eliminate the individual differences in men.
Passion makes idiots of the cleverest men, and makes the biggest idiots clever.
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.
There is frequently more to be learned from the unexpected questions of a child than the discourses of men.
From the day of the Declaration, the people of the North American union, and of its constituent states, were associated bodies of civilized men and Christians, in a state of nature, but not of anarchy.
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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