30,129 Quotes About Men

  • Author Saint Augustine
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    The mere change of custom, even though it may be of advantage in some respects, unsettles men by reason of the novelty: therefore, if it brings no advantage, it does much harm by unprofitably disturbing the Church.

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  • Author Samuel Adams
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    He who made all men hath made the truths necessary to human happiness obvious to all... Our forefathers opened the Bible to all.

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  • Author Samuel Adams
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    It is a very great mistake to imagine that the object of loyalty is the authority and interest of one individual man, however dignified by the applause or enriched by the success of popular actions.

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  • Author Samuel Adams
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    Man's rights are evident branches of, rather than deductions from, the duty of self-preservation, commonly called the first law of nature.

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  • Author Samuel Adams
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    It bodes very ill for government when men are exalted to places of high trust through their own solicitations. He only fills a place with dignity who is invited to it by his fellow citizens from the experience they have had of his adequate abilities.

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  • Author Samuel Adams
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    Shame on the men who can court exemption from present trouble and expense at the price of their own posterity's liberty!

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  • Author Samuel Adams
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    What a man has honestly acquired is absolutely his own, which he may freely give, but cannot be taken from him without his consent.

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