"To hear some men talk of the government, you would suppose that Congress was the law of gravitation, and kept the planets in their places."

Man, Men, Government, Congress, Law

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"To hear some men talk of the government, you would suppose that Congress was the law of gravitation, and kept the planets in their places."

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"All men are born with a nose and ten fingers, but no one was born with a knowledge of God."

Voltaire, French Writer

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"A man does not have to be an angel in order to be saint."

Albert Schweitzer, German Theologian

Man, Order

"The ordinary scientific man is strictly a sentimentalist. He is a sentimentalist in this essential sense, that he is soaked and swept away by mere associations."

Gilbert K. Chesterton, English Writer

Man, Sense

"Brave men are all vertebrates; they have their softness on the surface and their toughness in the middle."

Gilbert K. Chesterton, English Writer

Man, Men

"With prophecies the commentator is often a more important man than the prophet."

Georg C. Lichtenberg, German Physicist

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"Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others."

Virginia Woolf, British Author

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"Pride slays thanksgiving, but an humble mind is the soil out of which thanks naturally grow. A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves."

Henry Ward Beecher, American Clergyman

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"Civilized society is perpetually menaced with disintegration through this primary hostility of men towards one another."

Sigmund Freud, Austrian Psychologist

Man, Men, Society

"A man that does not know how to be angry does not know how to be good."

Henry Ward Beecher, American Clergyman

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"The most dangerous criminal now is the entirely lawless modern philosopher. Compared to him, burglars and bigamists are essentially moral men."

Gilbert K. Chesterton, English Writer

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"To be as good as our fathers we must be better, imitation is not discipleship."

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"The keener the want the lustier the growth."

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"Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty; power is ever stealing from the many to the few."

Power

"Debt is the fatal disease of republics, the first thing and the mightiest to undermine governments and corrupt the people."

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"Every step of progress the world has made has been from scaffold to scaffold, and from stake to stake."

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"All men are born with a nose and ten fingers, but no one was born with a knowledge of God."

"A man does not have to be an angel in order to be saint."

"The ordinary scientific man is strictly a sentimentalist. He is a sentimentalist in this essential sense, that he is soaked and swept away by mere associations."

"Brave men are all vertebrates; they have their softness on the surface and their toughness in the middle."

"With prophecies the commentator is often a more important man than the prophet."

"Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others."

"Pride slays thanksgiving, but an humble mind is the soil out of which thanks naturally grow. A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves."

"Civilized society is perpetually menaced with disintegration through this primary hostility of men towards one another."

"A man that does not know how to be angry does not know how to be good."

"The most dangerous criminal now is the entirely lawless modern philosopher. Compared to him, burglars and bigamists are essentially moral men."

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"To be as good as our fathers we must be better, imitation is not discipleship."

"The keener the want the lustier the growth."

"Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty; power is ever stealing from the many to the few."

"Debt is the fatal disease of republics, the first thing and the mightiest to undermine governments and corrupt the people."

"Every step of progress the world has made has been from scaffold to scaffold, and from stake to stake."

"Today it is not big business that we have to fear. It is big government."

"What gunpowder did for war the printing press has done for the mind."

"We live under a government of men and morning newspapers."

"Whether in chains or in laurels, liberty knows nothing but victories."

"Agitation is the atmosphere of the brains."