Animals, in their generation, are wiser than the sons of men; but their wisdom is confined to a few particulars, and lies in a very narrow compass.
Irregularity and want of method are only supportable in men of great learning or genius, who are often too full to be exact, and therefore they choose to throw down their pearls in heaps before the reader, rather than be at the pains of stringing them.
Civilization is a method of living, an attitude of equal respect for all men.
It does not take a majority to prevail... but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of men.
Advertising men and politicians are dangerous if they are separated. Together they are diabolical.
All men profess honesty as long as they can. To believe all men honest would be folly. To believe none so is something worse.
A government of laws, and not of men.
The Hebrews have done more to civilize men than any other nation. If I were an atheist, and believed blind eternal fate, I should still believe that fate had ordained the Jews to be the most essential instrument for civilizing the nations.
My observations of Japanese naval fighting men, their abilities and equipment led me to believe that they gave a better account of themselves than we did.
Individual ambition is undoubtedly a strong motive in student work, but there is such a thing among students everywhere as ambition for others, call it class spirit, esprit de corps, good fellowship, or good will to men.
It is always good men who do the most harm in the world.
The effect of power and publicity on all men is the aggravation of self, a sort of tumor that ends by killing the victim's sympathies.
Young men have a passion for regarding their elders as senile.
Elections are won by men and women chiefly because most people vote against somebody rather than for somebody.
The true republic: men, their rights and nothing more; women, their rights and nothing less.