Man Quotes

Man is an imitative creature.

In mid-life the man wants to see how irresistible he still is to younger women. How they turn their hearts to stone and more or less commit a murder of their marriage I just don’t know, but they do.

The greatest of the arts is the conquering of men.

I have always felt that if a man gives you a solid gold key to his door he is entitled to the courtesy of a visit.

Still hope leads men to venture; and no one ever yet put himself in peril without the inward conviction that he would succeed in his design.

I have sighed when obliged to confess that either Nature has made a great difference between man and man, or that the civilization which has hitherto taken place in the world has been very partial.

I think God rarely gives to one man, or one set of men, more than one great moral victory to win.

The white men were roused by a mere instinct of self-preservation—until at last there had sprung into existence a great Ku Klux Klan, a veritable empire of the South, to protect the Southern country.

When men take up arms to set other men free, there is something sacred and holy in the warfare.

Government is not a trade which any man or body of men has a right to set up and exercise for his own emolument, but is altogether a trust, in right of those by whom that trust is delegated, and by whom it is always resumable. It has of itself no rights; they are altogether duties.