Character Quote by Alexander Hamilton

Since the world never faults a man who refuses to yield...it is generally recognized that weak men live in obedience to the world's will,…

— Giacomo Leopardi

All history is only one long story to this effect: men have struggled for power over their fellow-men in order that they might win…

— William Graham Sumner

Men are capable of making great sacrifices, who are not willing to make the lesser ones, on which so much of the happiness of…

— Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington

In order to obtain and hold power a man must love it. Thus the effort to get it is not likely to be coupled…

— Leo Tolstoy

All history is only one long story to this effect: men have struggled for power over their fellowmen in order that they might win…

— William Graham Sumner

There is a sort of natural instinct of human dignity in the heart of man which steels his very nerves not to bend beneath…

— Lajos Kossuth

It is a true observation of ancient writers, that as men are apt to be cast down by adversity, so they, are easily satiated…

— Niccolo Machiavelli

A man's not doing much until the cause he works for possesses all there is of him. Desire, when harnessed, is power.

— John Wanamaker

There is nothing more precious to a man than his will; there is nothing which he relinquishes with so much reluctance.

— J. G. Holland

Men have never fully used [their] powers to advance the good in life, because they have waited upon some power external to themselves and…

— John Dewey

The world cries for men who are strong; strong in conviction, strong to lead, to stand, to suffer.

— Elisabeth Elliot

Some men are heroes by nature in that they will give all that is in them without regard to the effort or to the…

— Carson McCullers