“One monster there is in the world, the idle man.”
Source: Past and Present
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“Never trust a man who has not a single redeeming vice.”
Source: The Wicked Wit of Winston Churchill
“A man is a worker. If he is not that he is nothing.”
Source: Notes on Life and Letters
“Man is made to create, from the poet to the potter.”
Source: Contarini Fleming: A Romance
“The foolish man wonders at the unusual, but the wise man at the usual.”
“In order to exist, man must rebel.”
Source: The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt
“A man can refrain from wanting what he has not and cheerfully make the best of a bird in the hand.”
“True goodness springs from a man's own heart. All men are born good.”
“Few men think, yet all will have opinions.”
Source: Works, Including His Letters to Thomas Prior, Dean Gervais, Mr. Pope, &c. to which is Prefixed an Account of His Life
“The sentiments of men are known not only by what they receive, but what they reject also.”
Source: Memoirs, Correspondence and Private Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Late President of the United States
Source: Essential works
Source: The Division of Labor in Society
Source: The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex
“A fondness for power is implanted in most men, and it is natural to abuse it when acquired.”
Source: The Works of Alexander Hamilton: Miscellanies, 1774-1789: A full vindication; The farmer refuted; Quebec bill; Resolutions in Congress; Letters from Phocion; New-York Legislature, etc
Source: The Federalist, on the new constitution, written in 1788, with an appendix, containing the letters of Pacificus and Helvidius on the proclamation of neutrality of 1793, also the original articles of confederation and the constitution of the United States
Source: The Works of Alexander Hamilton: Correspondence [contin.] 1795-1804; 1777; 1791. Letters of H.G. 1789. Address to public creditors. 1790. Vindication of funding system. 1791
“The passions of a revolution are apt to hurry even good men into excesses.”
Source: Papers
Source: The Works of Alexander Hamilton: Miscellanies, 1774-1789: A full vindication; The farmer refuted; Quebec bill; Resolutions in Congress; Letters from Phocion; New-York Legislature, etc
Source: The Federalist: On the New Constitution
Source: The Works of Alexander Hamilton: Correspondence [contin.] 1795-1804; 1777; 1791. Letters of H.G. 1789. Address to public creditors. 1790. Vindication of funding system. 1791
“Man needs his difficulties because they are necessary to enjoy success.”
Source: Wings of Fire: An Autobiography
Source: Studies in Theology: Lectures Delivered in Chicago Theological Seminary
Source: The works of the Right Honourable Lady Mary Wortley Montagu: including her correspondence, poems, and essays
“He does not seem to me to be a free man who does not sometimes do nothing.”
Source: Cicero on Oratory and Orators: With His Letters to Quintus and Brutus
Source: The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll
Source: Sherlock Holmes - The Novels: A Study in Scarlet, The Sign of the Four, The Hound of the Baskervilles, The Valley of Fear
Source: The Federalist Papers: A Collection of Essays Written in Favour of the New Constitution
“If Men are so wicked as we now see them with Religion what would they be if without it?”
Source: The Political Thought of Benjamin Franklin
“But the mere circumstance of complexion cannot deprive them of the character of men.”
Source: Selected Writings of James Madison
Source: The Fœderalist: A Collection of Essays, Written in Favor of the New Constitution, as Agreed Upon by the Fœderal Convention, September 17, 1787. Reprinted from the Original Text. With an Historical Introduction and Notes
Source: The Federalist Papers: A Collection of Essays Written in Favour of the New Constitution
Source: The Fœderalist: A Collection of Essays, Written in Favor of the New Constitution, as Agreed Upon by the Fœderal Convention, September 17, 1787. Reprinted from the Original Text. With an Historical Introduction and Notes