Man Quotes

What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step.

The first woman was created from the rib of a man. She was not made from his head to top him, nor from his feet to be trampled on by him, but out of his side to be equal to him.

If gold rust, what then will iron do? For if a priest be foul in whom we trust/ No wonder that a common man should rust.

When I was a young man, I was poor. In a war with other nations, I was in eighty-seven fights. There I received my name and was made Chief of my nation. But now I am old and am for peace.

Men must not only know, they must act.

Every man has by nature the right to possess property as his own. This is one of the chief points of distinction between man and the animal creation.

Listen to the cry of a woman in labor at the hour of giving birth — look at the dying man’s struggle at his last extremity, and then tell me whether something that begins and ends thus could be intended for enjoyment.

A man cannot directly choose his circumstances, but he can choose his thoughts, and so indirectly, yet surely, shape his circumstances.

I don’t advocate violence; but if a man steps on my toes, I’ll step on his.

Breathes there the man with soul so dead, Who never to himself hath said, This is my own, my native land.