In order to live by its own law, a bird must fly, a snake must crawl, a fish must swim, and a man must love. Therefore, if instead of loving people a man does evil to them, he behaves as strangely as a bird that tries to swim or a fish that tries to fly.
—Leo Tolstoy
Fear not man. The LORD OF HOSTS shall be with you; the strength of that GOD who hath called you shall be your refuge.
—George Whitefield
A man who has been the indisputable favorite of his mother keeps for life the feeling of a conqueror.
—Sigmund Freud
Men are equal; it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference.
—Voltaire
They’re thinking of turning the peasant into an educated man. Why, first of all they should make him a good and prosperous farmer and then he’ll learn all that is necessary for him to know.
—Nikolai Gogol
“What greater joy can a man have than to feel that he is pleasing Christ?”
– Charles Spurgeon
Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
—George Washington
History never repeats itself. Man always does.
—Voltaire
Man is free at the instant he wants to be.
—Voltaire
Human history is the long terrible story of man trying to find something other than God which will make him happy. – C.S. Lewis
While we are discussing the exact location of the churches of Galatia, men are perishing under the curse of the law.
—J. Gresham Machen
Our Lord came not to teach men that they were already sons of God, but to make them sons of God by his redeeming work.
—J. Gresham Machen
Freedom of speech is of no use to a man who has nothing to say and freedom of worship is of no use to a man who has lost his God.
—Franklin D. Roosevelt
Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.
—Voltaire
The Truth is found when men are free to pursue it.
—Franklin D. Roosevelt
But wise is the man who disdains no character, but with searching glance explores him to the root and cause of all.
—Nikolai Gogol
A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned to walk forward.
—Franklin D. Roosevelt
It is clear that the individual who persecutes a man, his brother, because he is not of the same opinion, is a monster.
—Voltaire
The human brain is a complex organ with the wonderful power of enabling man to find reasons for continuing to believe whatever it is that he wants to believe.
—Voltaire
There are things which a man is afraid to tell even to himself, and every decent man has a number of such things stored away in his mind.
—Fyodor Dostoevsky
War is young men dying and old men talking.
—Franklin D. Roosevelt
One can know a man from his laugh, and if you like a man’s laugh before you know anything of him, you may confidently say that he is a good man.
—Fyodor Dostoevsky
Like all of us sinners, General Betrishchev was endowed with many virtues and many defects. Both the one and the other were scattered through him in a sort of picturesque disorder. Self-sacrifice, magnanimity in decisive moments, courage, intelligence–and with all that, a generous mixture of self-love, ambition, vanity, petty personal ticklishness, and a good many of those things which a man simply cannot do without.
—Nikolai Gogol
All men can see these tactics whereby I conquer, but what none can see is the strategy out of which victory is evolved.
—Sun Tzu
There is infinitely more men who accept the hypocritical civilization that men really and truly civilized.
—Sigmund Freud
A man would not for ten thousand worlds be willing to undergo that which Christ underwent for us in that one thing of desertion from God, were it attended with no more distress but what a mere creature might possibly emerge from under.
—John Owen
God prepares men to acknowledge his power in the mercies he bestows by making them sensible of their weakness and helplessness.
—Jonathan Edwards
A man would not for ten thousand worlds be willing to undergo that which Christ underwent for us in that one thing of desertion from God, were it attended with no more distress but what a mere creature might possibly emerge from under.
—John Owen
In these days of difficulty, we Americans everywhere must and shall choose the path of social justice…, the path of faith, the path of hope, and the path of love toward our fellow man.
—Franklin D. Roosevelt
Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.
—Franklin D. Roosevelt