Man Quotes

Faith is a dark night for man, but in this very way it gives him light.

It is a base thing for a man among the people not to obey those in command. Never in a state can the laws be well administered when fear does not stand firm.

Any man that resists the present tides that run in the world, will find himself thrown upon a shore so high and barren that it will seem he has been separated from his human kind forever.

I would lie in bed, and I was nine years old, and say to myself: ‘I want to be the richest man in the world.’ I’ve come a long way from there.

I finally figured it out, I finally figured out how to find some peace and happiness. I sure would hate for the man upstairs to take me now. But at least I did figure it out.

the Law has made the man and wife one person, and that one person the husband!

Work is the grand cure of all the maladies and miseries that ever beset mankind.

When statesmen want to gain time, they offer to talk.

This sort of people are so taken up with their theories about the rights of man that they have totally forgotten his nature.

I shall always be consistent and never change my ways so long as I am in my senses; but for the sake of precedent the Senate should beware of binding itself to support the acts of any man, since he might through some mischance suffer a change.