Men
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If men were angels, no government would be necessary.
Battle is the most magnificent competition in which a human being can indulge. It brings out all that is best; it removes all that is base. All men are afraid in battle. The coward is the one who lets his fear overcome his sense of duty. Duty is the essence of manhood.
The American flag is an enduring symbol of liberty, democracy, and justice. It is fitting that the House act to protect it as we approach our nation's birthday, and as our men and women in uniform rally behind it in Iraq's battlefields.
Wherever men and women are persecuted because of their race, religion, or political views, that place must — at that moment — become the center of the universe.
In real life, I am emotionally confused, which enables me to write songs. I'm a Pisces, and they say that Pisces are very sensitive. If men were just honest with themselves, they would see that they all have that side.
Men's indignation, it seems, is more excited by legal wrong than by violent wrong; the first looks like being cheated by an equal, the second like being compelled by a superior.
The most casual examination will reveal the fact that all the jokes about the horrible results of masculine cooking and sewing are written by men. It is all part of a great scheme of sex propaganda.
These people are very unskilled in arms... with 50 men they could all be subjected and made to do all that one wished.
Wise men don't need advice. Fools won't take it.
Great deeds give choice of many tales. Choose a slight tale, enrich it large, and then let wise men listen.
All men are created equal, it is only men themselves who place themselves above equality.
It is funny that men who are supposed to be scientific cannot get themselves to realise the basic principle of physics, that action and reaction are equal and opposite, that when you persecute people you always rouse them to be strong and stronger.
More than 48 million men and women have served America well and faithfully in military uniform.
Let those men who still have these misguided ideas, let those men who still have these hallucinations, realize that by anarchism, by dastardly crimes, they cannot bring about good government; let them realize that these methods have not succeeded in any country of the world and are not likely to succeed in India.
On Memorial Day, I don't want to only remember the combatants. There were also those who came out of the trenches as writers and poets, who started preaching peace, men and women who have made this world a kinder place to live.
The only stable state is the one in which all men are equal before the law.
There's three things men always talk about — women, sports, and cars.
Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth.
The actions of men are the best interpreters of their thoughts.
Rocks and waters, etc., are words of God, and so are men. We all flow from one fountain Soul. All are expressions of one Love.