Good Men Quotes

205 Good Men quotes by 145 unique authors

Crom, I have never prayed to you before. I have no tongue for it. No one, not even you, will remember if we were good… — Oliver Stone
Little boldness is needed to assail the opinions and practices of notoriously wicked men; but to rebuke great and good men for their conduct, and… — William Lloyd Garrison
I think that Lee should have been hanged. It was all the worse that he was a good man and a fine character and acted… — Henry Adams
I count it a high honor to belong to a profession in which the good men write every paragraph, every sentence, every line, as lovingly… — Alexander Woollcott
Good men do not always have grace and favor, lest they should be puffed up, and grow insolent and proud. — Saint John Chrysostom
Though in the order of nature angels rank above men, yet, by scale of justice, good men are of greater value than bad angels. — Saint Augustine
Whoever has overthrown an existing law of custom has always first been accounted a bad man: but when, as did happen, the law could not… — Friedrich Nietzsche
It is only in misery that we recognize the hand of God leading good men to good. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
We all have known good critics, who have stamped out poet's hopes; Good statesmen, who pulled ruin on the state; Good patriots, who, for a… — Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Good men have the fewest fears. He has but one great fear who fears to do wrong; he has a thousand who has overcome it. — Christian Nestell Bovee
The feather, whence the pen Was shaped that traced the lives of these good men, Dropped from an angel's wing. — William Wordsworth
Good men sometimes make mistakes. A man of integrity will honestly face and correct his mistakes, and that is an example we can respect. Sometimes… — D. Todd Christofferson
History is littered with dead good men — Joe Abercrombie
I think with you, that nothing is of more importance for the public weal, than to form and train up youth in wisdom and virtue.… — Benjamin Franklin
Show me that age and country where the rights and liberties of the people were placed on the sole chance of their rulers being good… — Patrick Henry
It is much easier to make good men wise, than to make bad men good. — Henry Fielding
Bad men need nothing more to compass their ends, than that good men should look on and do nothing. — John Stuart Mill
Such is the prestige of the Nobel Award and of this place where I stand that I am impelled, not to speak like a grateful… — John Steinbeck
Good men and bad men differ radically. Bad men never appreciate kindness shown them, but wise men appreciate and are grateful. Wise men try to… — Gautama Buddha
Bad men live that they may eat and drink, whereas good men eat and drink that they may live. — Socrates
The penalty that good men pay for not being interested in politics is to be governed by men worse than themselves. — Plato
Successful avengers, who are good men at heart, will always be saddened. — Unknown Author
Before you can begin to think about politics at all, you have to abandon the notion that there is a war between good men and… — Walter Lippmann
Bad men hate sin through fear of punishment; good men hate sin through their love of virtue. — Juvenal
Every actual State is corrupt. Good men must not obey the laws too well. What satire on government can equal the severity of censure conveyed… — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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