Done Quote by Robert Dale Owen

“For, besides what has been said, it should be borne in mind that the temper of the multitude is fickle, and that while it…

— Niccolò Machiavelli

“There are a thousand circumstances in which a man may be justified in a particular course of action, and that course yet may be…

— James Malcolm Rymer

All men are, at times, influenced by inexplicable sentiments. Ideas haunt them in spite of all their efforts to discard them. Prepossessions are entertained,…

— Charles Brockden Brown

You can sway a thousand men by appealing to their prejudices quicker than you can convince one man by logic.

— Robert A. Heinlein

“All people of broad, strong sense have an instinctive repugnance to the men of maxims; because such people early discern that the mysterious complexity…

— George Eliot

These Gentlemen must be told, that they take too much upon themselves when they pretend to appoint how far and no farther Men shall…

— Christiaan Huygens

“But it is often easier to compel a hundred people to do what you could never compel one person to do. The lone man…

— Anthony M. Esolen

“Wide are men’s inquiries into uncertainties; wider still are their disputes about conjectures.”

— Tertullian

Through the centuries, men of law have been persistently concerned with the resolution of disputes in ways that enable society to achieve its goals…

— Archibald Cox

“Therefore I permit every man to hold either of these opinions, as he chooses. My one concern at present is to remove all scruples…

— Martin Luther

“You can easily see what and endless, wearisome and fruitless task it would be if I were to refute all the unconsidered objections of…

— St. Augustine

“All people of broad, strong sense have an instinctive repugnance to the men of maxims; because such people early discern that the mysterious complexity…

— George Eliot