The marketplace obliges men, whether they will or not, in pursuing their own selfish interests, to connect the general good with their own individual success
The marketplace obliges men, whether they will or not, in pursuing their own selfish interests, to connect the general good with their own individual success
Man acts from adequate motives relative to his interest, and not on metaphysical speculations
Men are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their own appetites in proportion as their love to justice is above their rapacity in proportion as their soundness and sobriety of understanding is above their vanity and presumption in proportion as they are more disposed to listen to the counsels of the wise and good, in preference to the flattery of knaves.
Great men are the guideposts and landmarks in the state.
To tax and to please, no more than to love and to be wise, is not given to men.
Men are qualified for civil liberties in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their appetites in proportion as their love of justice is above their rapacity
The men of England, the men, I mean, of light and leading in England.
Under the pressure of the cares and sorrows of our mortal condition, men have at all times, and in all countries, called in some physical aid to their moral consolations - wine, beer, opium, brandy, or tobacco.
Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.
Man is by his constitution a religious animal.
Young man, there is America, which at this day serves for little more than to amuse you with stories of savage men and uncouth manners.
A conscientious man would be cautious how he dealt in blood
What ever disunites man from God, also disunites man from man.
They made and recorded a sort of institute and digest of anarchy, called the Rights of Man.
Of this stamp is the cant of, Not men, but measures.
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