When a citizen gives his suffrage to a man of known immorality he abuses his trust; he sacrifices not only his own interest, but that of his neighbor; he betrays the interest of his country.
Justice, sir, is the great interest of man on earth. It is the ligament which holds civilized beings and civilized nations together.
Let us not forget that the cultivation of the earth is the most important labor of man. When tillage begins, other arts will follow. The farmers, therefore, are the founders of civilization.
I mistrust the judgment of every man in a case in which his own wishes are concerned.
No man not inspired can make a good speech without preparation.
Every unpunished murder takes away something from the security of every man's life.
Man is a special being, and if left to himself, in an isolated condition, would be one of the weakest creatures; but associated with his kind, he works wonders.
What a man does for others, not what they do for him, gives him immortality.
The right of an inventor to his invention is no monopoly - in any other sense than a man's house is a monopoly.
What love is to man, music is to the arts and to mankind.
I think Michael Crawford realised, I think we all realised, once we'd gone the route of casting a very young girl, you can't really cast a 65 year old man opposite. Slightly different resonance I think. No, we weren't going to go there. We'd have Jack Nicholson in the lead.
In baseball, you can't kill the clock. You've got to give the other man his chance. That's why this is the greatest game.
You can't sit on a lead and run a few plays into the line and just kill the clock. You've got to throw the ball over the damn plate and five the other man his chance. That's why baseball is the greatest game of them all.
No amount of study or learning will make a man a leader unless he has the natural qualities of one.
What is youth except a man or woman before it is ready or fit to be seen?