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Man Quotes



"FDR had been Assistant Secretary of the Navy. They told me, now forgotten, just how many pictures of ships they took out of the White House after he died. But he could choose good men."


"Is woman a religion? Well, perhaps you will have the chance of judging for yourselves if you go to America. There you will find men treating women with just the same respect formerly accorded only to religious dignitaries or to great nobles."


"No poll can equal the day-to-day visits of the men and women of the Democratic Party."


"By burning Luther's books you may rid your bookshelves of him, but you will not rid men's minds of him."


"I felt only as a man can feel who is roaming over the prairies of the far West, well armed, and mounted on a fleet and gallant steed."
Man,



"Technology is making gestures precise and brutal, and with them men."


"How many men are there who fairly earn a million dollars?"


"The greatest luck that I've had has been the ability to find men and women who came into my administration who worked with me and brought extraordinary talents that we were able to take full advantage of."


"Be a philosopher but, amid all your philosophy be still a man."


"If you look at the buildings, you'll find that one part looks as if it was designed by one man, and you go around and look at another facade and it looks as if it was designed by another man, you see."
Man,


"We all join the President in applauding the sacrifices made by our brave men and women in uniform. But we must continue to provide them the tools they need to accomplish the difficult tasks they face."


"One man practicing sportsmanship is far better than a hundred teaching it."


"No man, who continues to add something to the material, intellectual and moral well-being of the place in which he lives, is left long without proper reward."


"The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself."


"The true worth of a man is not to be found in man himself, but in the colours and textures that come alive in others."



"Men seek for vocabularies that are reflections of reality. To this end, they must develop vocabularies that are selections of reality. And any selection of reality must, in certain circumstances, function as a deflection of reality."


"A murderer is regarded by the conventional world as something almost monstrous, but a murderer to himself is only an ordinary man. It is only if the murderer is a good man that he can be regarded as monstrous."
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