| "When at some future date the high court of history sits in judgMENt on each one of us-recording whether in our brief span of service we fulfilled our responsibilities to the state-our success or failure, in whatever office we may hold, will be measured by the answers to four questions-were we truly MEN of courage ... were we truly MEN of judgMENt ... were we truly MEN of integrity ... were we truly MEN of dedication" »John Fitzgerald Kennedy |
| "Let me have MEN about me that are fat, Sleek-headed MEN, and such as sleep o' nights Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look He thinks too much such MEN are dangerous." »William Shakespeare |
| "There are MEN whom a happy disposition, a strong desire of glory and esteem, inspire with the same love for justice and virtue which MEN in general have for riches and honors....But the number of these MEN is so small that I only MENtion them in honor of humanity." »Claude Adrien Helvetius |
| "When MEN are brought face to face with their opponents, forced to listen and learn and MENd their ideas, they cease to be children and savages and begin to live like civilized MEN. Then only is freedom a reality, when MEN may voice their opinions because they must examine their opinions." »Walter Lippmann |
| "Some MEN are born mediocre, some MEN achieve mediocrity, and some MEN have mediocrity thrust upon them." »Joseph Heller |
| "When we see MEN of worth, we should think of equaling them when we see MEN of a contrary character, we should turn inwards and examine ourselves." »Confucius |
| "Speech was given to the ordinary sort of MEN, whereby to communicate their mind but to wise MEN, whereby to conceal it." »Robert South |
| "MEN are rewarded or punished not for what they do but for how their acts are defined. That is why MEN are more interested in better justifying themselves than in better behaving themselves." »Thomas Szasz |
| "Till last by Philip's farm I flowTo join the brimming river,For MEN may come and MEN may go,But I go on for ever." »Alfred Lord Tennyson |
| "I'm fed up to the ears with old MEN dreaming up wars for young MEN to die in." »George McGovern |
| "It is foolish and wrong to mourn the MEN who died. Rather we should thank God that such MEN lived." »George Smith Patton, Jr. |
| "The price good MEN pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil MEN." »Plato |
| "If MEN do not keep on speaking terms with children, they cease to be MEN, and become merely machines for eating and earning money." »John Updike |
| "Though defensive violence will always be 'a sad necessity' in the eyes of MEN of principle, it would be still more unfortunate if wrongdoers should dominate just MEN." »Saint Augustine |
| "MEN who are unhappy, like MEN who sleep badly, are always proud of the fact." »Bertrand Russell |
| "Oh, how I love the Earth and everything in it, life and death. And MEN. One can think of nothing finer, or nicer, than MEN their wars, their concentration camps, their justice." »Marcel Ayme |
| "With reasonable MEN I will reason with humane MEN I will plea but to tyrants I will give no quarter, nor waste arguMENts where they will certainly be lost." »William Lloyd Garrison |
| "Shallow MEN believe in luck. Strong MEN believe in cause and effect." »Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| "The principle goal of education is to create MEN who are capable of doing new things, not simply of repeating what other generations have done - MEN who are creative, inventive and discoverers." »Jean Piaget |
| "All the problems of the world could be settled easily if MEN were only willing to think. The trouble is that MEN very often resort to all sorts of devices in order not to think, because thinking is such hard work." »Thomas John Watson, Sr. |
| "Some MEN look at constitutions with sanctimonious reverence ... too sacred to be touched. They ascribe to the MEN of the preceding age a wisdom more than human, and suppose what they did to be beyond aMENdMENt." »Thomas Jefferson |
| "Nothing more clearly show how little God esteems his gift to MEN of wealth, money, position and other wordly goods, than the way he distributes these, and the sort of MEN who are most amply provided with them." »La Bruyere |
| "I hear it said that West Berlin is militarily untenable-and so was Bastogne, and so, in fact, was Stalingrad. Any danger spot is tenable if MEN-brave MEN-will make it so." »John Fitzgerald Kennedy |
| "We will not be driven by fear into an age of unreason if we ... remember that we are not descended from fearful MEN, not from MEN who feared to write, to speak, to associate and to defend causes which were, for the moMENt, unpopular." »Edward R. Murrow |
| "Said Waldershare, 'Sensible MEN are all of the same religion.' 'And pray what is that' ... 'Sensible MEN never tell.'" »Benjamin Disraeli |
| "MEN in no way approach so nearly to the gods as in doing good to MEN." »Marcus Tullius Cicero |
| "All MEN have an instinct for conflict at least, all healthy MEN." »Hilaire Belloc |
| "When the highest type of MEN hear Tao, They diligently practice it. When the average type of MEN hear Tao, They half believe in it. When the lowest type of MEN hear Tao, They laugh heartily at it." »Lao Tzu |
| "It is easy enough to praise MEN for the courage of their convictions. I wish I could teach the sad young MEN of this mealy generation the courage of their confusion." »John Anthony Ciardi |
| "I studied the lives of great MEN and famous woMEN, and I found that the MEN and woMEN who got to the top were those who did the jobs they had in hand, with everything they had of energy and enthusiasm." »Henry Truman |
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