Every Man Quotes - Page 35

• Every man is responsible only for his own acts. The sons do not inherit the sins of the fathers. But can we say: that was long ago, they were different?

  Aleksander Kwasniewski

  Father, Son, Men

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• For every man, peace of soul is precious. With those who have attained peace of soul, the body can be in constant motion; in work, in pain, but their souls, affixed to God, always remain in unwavering peace.

  Nikolaj Velimirovic

  Pain, Men, Soul

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• More will be accomplished, and better, and with more ease, if every man does what he is best fitted to do, and nothing else.

  Plato

  Men, Doe, Ease

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• We don't often look into these unpleasant details of our great struggle. We all prefer to think that every man who wore the blue or gray was a Philip Sidney at heart.

  Rebecca Harding Davis

  Struggle, Heart, Eye

  Rebecca Harding Davis (1904). “Rebecca Harding Davis: Writing Cultural Autobiography”, p.80, Vanderbilt University Press

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• In every man's memory, with the hours when life culminated are usually associated certain books which met his views.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Memories, Book, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume VIII: Letters and Social Aims”, p.93, Harvard University Press

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• I cannot forbid a person to marry several wives, for it does not contradict Scripture. MARTIN LUTHER, letter to Chancellor Gregory Brück, January 13, 1524 Marriage, it seems, confines every man to his proper rank.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Marriage, Men, Wife

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• Every man is to be considered in two capacities, the private and public; as designed to pursue his own interest, and likewise to contribute to the good of others.

  Joseph Butler

  Men, Two, Capacity

  Joseph Butler, Samuel Hallifax (1828). “The Works of the Right Reverend Father in God, Joseph Butler: To which is Prefixed, an Account of the Character and Writings of the Author”

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• Every man hath a general desire of his own happiness; and likewise a variety of particular affections, passions, and appetites to particular external objects.

  Joseph Butler

  Passion, Men, Desire

  Joseph Butler, Stephen L. Darwall (1983). “Five Sermons, Preached at the Rolls Chapel and A Dissertation Upon the Nature of Virtue”, p.47, Hackett Publishing

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• Every man has two countries: his own and France.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Country, Men, Countries Of The World

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• Every man, therefore, who expects justification by works, must see to it, not that he is better than other men, or that he is very exact and does many things, or that he fasts twice in the week, and gives tithes of all he possesses, but that he is sinless.

  Charles Hodge

  Men, Giving, Doe

  Charles Hodge (1841). “The Way of Life”, p.142

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• Once to every man and nation, comes the moment to decide,
  In the strife of truth with falsehood, for the good or evil side;
  Some great cause, some great decision, offering each the bloom or blight, And the choice goes by forever, ’twixt that darkness and that light.

  James Russell Lowell

  Truth, Men, Light

  'The Present Crisis' (1845)

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• Every man [human being] is an heir to a legacy of dignity and worth

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Men, Legacy, Heirs

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• Taxes are paid in the sweat of every man who labors.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Men, Sweat, Paying Taxes

  Roosevelt, Franklin D. (1941). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1937, Volume 6”, p.798, Best Books on

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• Every man is a missionary, now and forever, for good or for evil, whether he intends or designs it or not.

  Thomas Chalmers

  Men, Evil, Design

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• If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, it expects what never was and never will be ... The People cannot be safe without information. When the press is free, and every man is able to read, all is safe.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Truth, Men, People

  Letter to Colonel Charles Yancey, January 6, 1816.

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• Someone should keep reminding Mr. Average Man that he was born free, divine, strong; uncrushable by fate, society, or hell itself; and that he is a child of God, equal heir to all the bounties of God; and that goodness is riches, kindness is power, and freedom is glory. Above all, every man is born with an inner capacity to take him as far as his imagination can dream or envision-providing he is free to dream and envision.

  Frank Capra

  Dream, Strong, Children

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• Every man--I know this--turns weak, pliant, ridiculous as soon as he's in love.

  Leopold von Sacher-Masoch

  Men, Ridiculous, Weak

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• I deem it the duty of every man to devote a certain portion of his income for charitable purposes; and that it is his further duty to see it so applied and to do the most good for which it is capable.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Men, Income, Purpose

  Thomas Jefferson (2004). “Light and Liberty: Reflections on the Pursuit of Happiness”, p.91, Modern Library

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• There is something in the character of every man which cannot be broken in--the skeleton of his character; and to try to alter this is like training a sheep for draught purposes.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Character, Men, Skeletons

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• God hath given to mankind a common library, His creatures; to every man a proper book, himself being an abridgment of all others. If thou read with understanding, it will make thee a great master of philosophy, and a true servant of the divine Author: if thou but barely read, it will make thee thine own wise man and the Author's fool.

  Francis Quarles

  Wise, Philosophy, Book

  Francis Quarles (1844). “Enchiridion Institutions, Essays and Maxims, political, moral & divine. Divided into four centuries. By Francis Quarles”, p.75

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• Every man is a moon; he has a side no one sees.

  Mark Twain

  Wisdom, Men, Moon

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• Every man, and every body of men on earth, possesses the right of self-government. They receive it with their being from the hand of nature. Individuals exercise it by their single will; collections of men by that of their majority; for the law of the majority is the natural law of every society of men.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Change, Exercise, Men

  Thomas Jefferson (1854). “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Being His Autobiography, Correspondence, Reports, Messages, Addresses, and Other Writings, Official and Private : Published by the Order of the Joint Committee of Congress on the Library, from the Original Manuscripts, Deposited in the Department of State”, p.496

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• Men choose Hamlet because every man sees himself as a disinherited monarch. Women choose Alice [in Wonderland] because every woman sees herself as the only reasonable creature among crazy people who think they are disinherited monarchs.

  Adam Gopnik

  Crazy, Men, Thinking

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• Let every man consider virtue as what devolves on himself. He may not yield the performance of it even to his teacher.

  Confucius

  Teacher, Men, Yield

  Confucius (2009). “The Confucian Analects, the Great Learning & the Doctrine of the Mean”, p.304, Cosimo, Inc.

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• A hand from Washington will be stretched out and placed upon every man’s business; the eye of the federal inspector will be in every man’s counting house… The law will of necessity have Indus[tr]ial features, it will provide penalties, it will create complicated machinery. Under it, men will be hauled into courts distant from their homes. Heavy fines imposed by distant and unfamiliar tribunals will constantly menace the taxpayer. An army of federal inspectors, spies, and detectives will descend upon the state.

  Richard E. Byrd

  Home, Eye, Army

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