Men Quotes

“Circumstances rule men; men do not rule circumstances.”

“He is the best man who, when making his plans, fears and reflects on everything that can happen to him, but in the moment of action is bold.”

“The greatest risk to man is not that he aims to high and misses, but that he aims to low and hits.”

“For liberty hath a sharp and double edge, fit only to be handled by just and virtuous men; to bad and dissolute, it becomes a mischief unwieldy in their own hands.”

“There are only two kinds of men: the righteous who think they are sinners and the sinners who think they are righteous.”

“When a man is prey to his emotions, he is not his own master.”

“Freedom of men under government is to have a standing rule to live by, common to every one of that society and made by the legislative power vested in it and not to be subject to the inconstant, uncertain, arbitrary will of another man.”

“Men's happiness or misery is [for the] most part of their own making.”

“When men are most sure and arrogant they are commonly most mistaken.”

“It is seldom, that liberty of any kind is lost all at once. Slavery has so frightful an aspect to men accustomed to freedom, that it must steal upon them by degrees, and must disguise itself in a thousand shapes, in order to be received.”

“The difference between a man who is led by opinion or emotion and one who is led by reason. The former, whether he will or not, performs things of which he is entirely ignorant; the latter is subordinate to no one, and only does those things which he knows to be of primary importance in his life, and which on that account he desires the most; and therefore I call the former a slave, but the latter free.”

“Let woman share the rights and she will emulate the virtues of man; for she must grow more perfect when emancipated.”