Man is priest, and scholar, and statesman, and producer, and soldier.

The only fundamental and possible socialism is the socialisation of the selective breeding of man.

A man that studieth revenge keeps his own wounds green.

Nature is relentless and unchangeable, and it is indifferent as to whether its hidden reasons and actions are understandable to man or not.

Freedom is a man’s natural power of doing what he pleases, so far as he is not prevented by force or law.

When we assumed the Soldier, we did not lay aside the Citizen.

What every genuine philosopher (every genuine man, in fact) craves most is praise although the philosophers generally call it recognition!

The statesman’s duty is to bridge the gap between his nation’s experience and his vision.

The proper study of Mankind is Man.

The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.

Have you ever watched a crab on the shore crawling backward in search of the Atlantic Ocean, and missing? That’s the way the mind of man operates.

Why does man kill? He kills for food. And not only food: frequently there must be a beverage.

I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity.

It is remarkable how closely the history of the apple tree is connected with that of man.

A man’s true character comes out when he’s drunk.

Behind every successful man is a woman, behind her is his wife.

I think that man has a fundamental obligation to extract from himself and from the earth all that it can give; and this obligation is all the more imperative that we are absolutely ignorant of what limits – they may still be very distant – God has imposed on our natural understanding and power.

It is unnecessary to say that Fidel Castro possesses the high qualities of a fighter and statesman: our path, our struggle, and our triumph we owed to his vision.

Beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and devil are fighting there, and the battlefield is the heart of man.

Some kinds of animals burrow in the ground; others do not. Some animals are nocturnal, as the owl and the bat; others use the hours of daylight. There are tame animals and wild animals. Man and the mule are always tame; the leopard and the wolf are invariably wild, and others, as the elephant, are easily tamed.

A sudden bold and unexpected question doth many times surprise a man and lay him open.

Indeed, we’re strongest when the face of America isn’t only a soldier carrying a gun but also a diplomat negotiating peace, a Peace Corps volunteer bringing clean water to a village, or a relief worker stepping off a cargo plane as floodwaters rise.

A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.

A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy.

Wine gives a man nothing… it only puts in motion what had been locked up in frost.

Concern for man and his fate must always form the chief interest of all technical endeavors. Never forget this in the midst of your diagrams and equations.

A man who does not think for himself does not think at all.

The man who occupies the first place seldom plays the principal part.

Man, so long as he remains free, has no more constant and agonizing anxiety than find as quickly as possible someone to worship.

The best argument I know for an immortal life is the existence of a man who deserves one.

In every country and every age, the priest had been hostile to Liberty.

A statesman who confines himself to popular legislation – or, for the matter of that, a playwright who confines himself to popular plays – is like a blind man’s dog who goes wherever the blind man pulls him, on the ground that both of them want to go to the same place.

Man, all lives matter.

Man is the only animal that blushes – or needs to.

Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel.

I suppose, in a way, this has become part of my soul. It is a symbol of my life. Whatever I have done that really matters, I’ve done wearing it. When the time comes, it will be in this that I journey forth. What greater honor could come to an American, and a soldier?

The sergeant is the Army.

How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being.

The first virtue in a soldier is endurance of fatigue; courage is only the second virtue.

A man is what he thinks about all day long.

The progress of rivers to the ocean is not so rapid as that of man to error.

Knowledge of the past and of the places of the earth is the ornament and food of the mind of man.

Every citizen should be a soldier. This was the case with the Greeks and Romans, and must be that of every free state.

Man is by nature a political animal.

A politician is a man who understands government. A statesman is a politician who’s been dead for 15 years.

Man, the living creature, the creating individual, is always more important than any established style or system.

Man is still the most extraordinary computer of all.

A round man cannot be expected to fit in a square hole right away. He must have time to modify his shape.

The discontented man finds no easy chair.

Against eternal injustice, man must assert justice, and to protest against the universe of grief, he must create happiness.

A clever man commits no minor blunders.

A man cannot become an atheist merely by wishing it.

When I hear a man preach, I like to see him act as if he were fighting bees.

A man’s character is his guardian divinity.

A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way.

I really hope someday in Hollywood, some producer or director will hire me only to do drama.

The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.

Show me the man you honor, and I will know what kind of man you are.

Extremes in nature equal ends produce; In man they join to some mysterious use.

There is nothing more helpless and irresponsible than a man in the depths of an ether binge.

The little man is still a man.