top of page
More

"A man has generally the good or ill qualities, which he attributes to mankind."
Author Name
Personal Development

"Every record that you do man, is sooo different in every way."
Author Name
Personal Development

"Look at the means which a man employs, consider his motives, observe his pleasures. A man simply cannot conceal himself!"
Author Name
Personal Development

"Speak slowly, Michael. He is an honourable man."
Author Name
Personal Development

"When men make themselves into brutes it is just to treat them like brutes."
Author Name
Personal Development

"You can keep the things of bronze and stone and give me one man to remember me just once a year."
Author Name
Personal Development

"I have done my duty by the laws of my people and I am sorry my people were led this time by men who were not soldiers and that crimes were committed of which I had no knowledge."
Author Name
Personal Development

"Nothing is poetical if plain daylight is not poetical; and no monster should amaze us if the normal man does not amaze."
Author Name
Personal Development

"A man ought to read just as inclination leads him, for what he reads as a task will do him little good."
Author Name
Personal Development

"A man may build a complicated piece of mechanism, or pilot a steamboat, but not more than five out of ten know how the apple got into the dumpling."
Author Name
Personal Development
More

"The places that are most likely to grow trees for carbon sequestration are places where trees aren't growing now."
Now

"Those who begin coercive elimination of dissent soon find themselves exterminating dissenters. Compulsory unification of opinion achieves only the unanimity of the graveyard."
Politics

"The day that this country ceases to be free for irreligion, it will cease to be free for religion."
Religion

"Men are more often bribed by their loyalties and ambitions than by money."
Man

"If there is any fixed star in our constitutional constellation, it is that no official, high or petty, can prescribe what shall be orthodox in politics, nationalism, religion, or other matters of opinion, or force citizens to confess by word or act."
Politics

"It is in the country's best interest that Tony Blair rather than Michael Howard should form the next government."
Government

"Microbes are doing things we didn't even know they could do 10 years ago."
Science

"It is not the function of the government to keep the citizen from falling into error; it is the function of the citizen to keep the government from falling into error."
Government

"The petitioner's problem is to avoid Scylla without being drawn into Charybdis."
Being

"When the Supreme Court moved to Washington in 1800, it was provided with no books, which probably accounts for the high quality of early opinions."
Quality
bottom of page