Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
George Washington

The marvel of all history is the patience with which men and women submit to burdens unnecessarily laid upon them by their governments.
George Washington

The time is near at hand which must determine whether Americans are to be free men or slaves.
George Washington

Let your Discourse with Men of Business be Short and Comprehensive.
George Washington

All men are created equal, it is only men themselves who place themselves above equality.
David Allan Coe

All men by nature desire knowledge.
Aristotle

All men are born with a nose and ten fingers, but no one was born with a knowledge of God.
Voltaire

Big jobs usually go to the men who prove their ability to outgrow small ones.
Theodore Roosevelt

Some men can live up to their loftiest ideals without ever going higher than a basement.
Theodore Roosevelt

Only free men can negotiate; prisoners cannot enter into contracts. Your freedom and mine cannot be separated.
Nelson Mandela

I know war as few other men now living know it, and nothing to me is more revolting. I have long advocated its complete abolition, as its very destructiveness on both friend and foe has rendered it useless as a method of settling international disputes.
Ernest Hemingway

Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and forms of government.
Aristotle

All the reasonings of men are not worth one sentiment of women.
Voltaire

If men were angels, no government would be necessary.
James Madison

Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes himself get good things by jealousy, while the other does not allow his neighbour to have them through envy.
Aristotle

Men are so simple and so much inclined to obey immediate needs that a deceiver will never lack victims for his deceptions.
Niccolo Machiavelli

Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers.
Aristotle

One of the things being in politics has taught me is that men are not a reasoned or reasonable sex.
Margaret Thatcher

Democracy arises out of the notion that those who are equal in any respect are equal in all respects; because men are equally free, they claim to be absolutely equal.
Aristotle

Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting in a particular way.
Aristotle