30,129 Quotes About Men

The form of government which you admire, when its principles are pure is admirable indeed. It is productive of every Thing which is great and excellent among men. But its principles are as easily destroyed as human nature is corrupted. Such a government is only to be supported by pure religion or Austere morals.

Did you ever see a portrait of a great man without perceiving strong traits of pain and anxiety?

No man who ever held the office of president would congratulate a friend on obtaining it.

[D]emocracy will soon degenerate into an anarchy, such an anarchy that every man will do what is right in his own eyes and no man's life or property or reputation or liberty will be secure, and every one of these will soon mould itself into a system of subordination of all the moral virtues and intellectual abilities, all the powers of wealth, beauty, wit and science, to the wanton pleasures, the capricious will, and the execrable cruelty of one or a very few.

Where annual elections end, there slavery begins ... Humility, patience, and moderation, without which every man in power becomes a ravenous beast of prey.

Who wants to shake the hand of the first man to put it to America's sweetheart.

My country has contrived for me the most insignificant office that ever the invention of man contrived or his imagination conceived.

All sober inquirers after truth, ancient and modern, pagan and Christian, have declared that the happiness of man, as well as his dignity, consists in virtue.

Mathematical studies may serve for a pleasant entertainment for those hours which young men are apt to throw away upon their vices.