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"In order that all men may be taught to speak the truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it."

Samuel Johnson, English Author

Man, Men, Truth, May, Order

"Opposition may become sweet to a man when he has christened it persecution."

George Eliot, British Author

Man, May, Opposition, Persecution

"A little skill in antiquity inclines a man to Popery."

Thomas Fuller, English Clergyman

Man, Skill

"In the course of history, men come to see that iron necessity is neither iron nor necessary."

Friedrich Nietzsche, German Philosopher

Man, Men, History, Necessity

"A man in passion rides a horse that runs away with him."

Thomas Fuller, English Clergyman

Man, Passion

"The man who looks for security, even in the mind, is like a man who would chop off his limbs in order to have artificial ones which will give him no pain or trouble."

Henry Miller, American Author

Man, Mind, Order, Pain

"The vote is the most powerful instrument ever devised by man for breaking down injustice and destroying the terrible walls which imprison men because they are different from other men."

Lyndon B. Johnson, American President

Man, Men, Injustice, Vote

"There is nothing so stupid as the educated man if you get him off the thing he was educated in."

Will Rogers, American Actor

Man, Nothing

"The dons of Oxford and Cambridge are too busy educating the young men to be able to teach them anything."

Samuel Butler, British Poet

Man, Men

"Woman is a vulgar animal from whom man has created an excessively beautiful ideal."

Gustave Flaubert, French Novelist

Man, Woman

Explore more quotes by Jack Dempsey

"I was a pretty good fighter. But it was the writers who made me great."

Pretty

"A good fighter usually knows, to within a very few seconds, when a three-minute round is going to end."

Sports

"A champion owes everybody something. He can never pay back for all the help he got, for making him an idol."

Help

"Tall men come down to my height when I hit 'em in the body."

Man

"All the time he's boxing, he's thinking. All the time he was thinking, I was hitting him."

Time

"By forgetting the past and by throwing myself into other interests, I forget to worry."

Politics

"Tell him he can have my title, but I want it back in the morning."

Want

"You know what a champion is? A champion is someone who's ready when the gong rings - not just before, not just after - but when it rings."

Reading

"Nobody owes anybody a living, but everybody is entitled to a chance."

Chance