Good Men Quotes
205 quotes by 154 authors
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It is always good men who do the most harm in the world.
— Henry Adams
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What the hell difference does it make, left or right? There were good men lost on both sides.
— Brendan Behan
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The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
— Edmund Burke
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Women have a thirst for order and beauty as for something physical; there is a strange female power of hating ugliness and waste as good…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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It's not that we don't have enough scoundrels to curse; it's that we don't have enough good men to curse them.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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The passions of a revolution are apt to hurry even good men into excesses.
— Alexander Hamilton
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There live not three good men unhanged in England; and one of them is fat and grows old.
— William Shakespeare
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The desire to know is natural to good men.
— Leonardo da Vinci
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Evil triumphs when good men do nothing.
— Thomas Jefferson
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Morality is character and conduct such as is required by the circle or community in which the man's life happens to be placed. It shows…
— Henry Ward Beecher
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There is ever a slight suspicion of the burlesque about earnest good men.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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You cannot make men good by law: and without good men you cannot have a good society.
— C.S. Lewis
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Where there is much desire to learn, there of necessity will be much arguing, much writing, for opinion in good men is but knowledge in…
— John Milton
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Flying saucers are real. Too many good men have seen them, that don't have hallucinations.
— Eddie Rickenbacker
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Let it be your pride to show all men everywhere not only what good soldiers you are, but also what good men you are.
— Woodrow Wilson
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Good men are bound by conscience and liberated by accountability.
— Wes Fesler
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[A]ll popular and well-mixed governments [republics] . . . are ever established by wise and good men, and can never be upheld otherwise than by…
— Algernon Sidney
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The business of education has lay[ed] the foundations for nurseries of wise and good men, to adapt our modes of teaching to the peculiar form…
— Benjamin Rush
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What is new, however, is always evil, being that which wants to conquer and overthrow the old boundary markers and the old pieties; and only…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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No government can be maintained without the principle of fear as well as duty. Good men will obey the last, but bad ones the former…
— Thomas Jefferson
Who Wrote These Good Men Quotes
154 authors contributed a total of 205 Good Men Quotes, led by these top contributors: