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Men Quotes by John Quincy Adams
- All men profess honesty as long as they can. To believe all men honest would be folly. To believe none so is something worse.
- Who but shall learn that freedom is the prize Man still is bound to rescue or maintain; That nature's God commands the slave to rise,…
- The laws of man may bind him in chains or may put him to death, but they never can make him wise, virtuous, or happy.
- The law given from Sinai was a civil and municipal as well as a moral and religious code; it contained many statutes . . .…
- There are three points of doctrine the belief of which forms the foundation of all morality. The first is the existence of God; the second…
- In charity to all mankind, bearing no malice or ill will to any human being, and even compassionating those who hold in bondage their fellow…
- I speak as a man of the world to men of the world; and I say to you, Search the Scriptures! The Bible is the…
- The Bible carries with it the history of the creation, the fall and redemption of man, and discloses to him, in the infant born at…
- To a man of liberal education, the study of history is not only useful, and important, but altogether indispensable, and with regard to the history…
- Human life, from the cradle to the grave, is a school. At every period of his existence man wants a teacher. His pilgrimage upon earth…
- Whenever vanity and gaiety, a love of pomp and dress, furniture, equipage, buildings, great company, expensive diversions, and elegant entertainments get the better of the…
- The attainment of knowledge is the high and exclusive attribute of man, among the numberless myriads of animated beings, inhabitants of the terrestrial globe. On…
- Not stones, nor wood, nor the art of artisans make a state; but where men are who know how to take care of themselves, these…
- Man wants but little here below Nor wants that little long, 'Tis not with me exactly so; But 'tis so in the song. My wants…
- The imagination of a eunuch dwells more and longer upon the material of love than that of man or woman ... supplying, so far as…
- The conflict between the principle of liberty and the fact of slavery is coming gradually to an issue. Slavery has now the power, and falls…
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- Let each man exercise the art he knows. — Aristophanes
- A man's homeland is wherever he prospers. — Aristophanes
- Men of sense often learn from their enemies. It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of… — Aristophanes
- My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake. — Aristotle
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- At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst. — Aristotle
- Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes… — Aristotle