Law grinds the poor, and rich men rule the law.

We are men of action, lies do not become us.

The history of progress is written in the blood of men and women who have dared to espouse an unpopular cause, as, for instance, the black man's right to his body, or woman's right to her soul.

An artist needn't be a clergyman or a churchwarden, but he certainly must have a warm heart for his fellow men.

If boyhood and youth are but vanity, must it not be our ambition to become men?

Ignorant men raise questions that wise men answered a thousand years ago.

Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men.

Girls we love for what they are; young men for what they promise to be.

To the person with a firm purpose all men and things are servants.

Men show their character in nothing more clearly than what they think laughable.

Self-knowledge comes from knowing other men.

The real or supposed rights of man are of two kinds, active and passive; the right in certain cases to do as we list; and the right we possess to the forbearance or assistance of other men.

Make men wise, and by that very operation you make them free. Civil liberty follows as a consequence of this; no usurped power can stand against the artillery of opinion.

He has no right to his life when his duty calls him to resign it. Other men are bound... to deprive him of life or liberty, if that should appear in any case to be indispensably necessary to prevent a greater evil.

If we look at Houston, which is a very environmentally toxic place, we find that it has one of the highest levels of young men going to prison and also among the highest levels of illiteracy in the country.