Good Men Quotes

205 quotes by 154 authors

It is always good men who do the most harm in the world. — Henry Adams
What the hell difference does it make, left or right? There were good men lost on both sides. — Brendan Behan
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing. — Edmund Burke
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
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
The passions of a revolution are apt to hurry even good men into excesses. — Alexander Hamilton
There live not three good men unhanged in England; and one of them is fat and grows old. — William Shakespeare
The desire to know is natural to good men. — Leonardo da Vinci
Evil triumphs when good men do nothing. — Thomas Jefferson
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
There is ever a slight suspicion of the burlesque about earnest good men. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
You cannot make men good by law: and without good men you cannot have a good society. — C.S. Lewis
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
Flying saucers are real. Too many good men have seen them, that don't have hallucinations. — Eddie Rickenbacker
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
Good men are bound by conscience and liberated by accountability. — Wes Fesler
[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
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
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
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

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