Civilized men are more discourteous than savages because they know they can be impolite without having their skulls split, as a general thing.

A government of laws, and not of men.

From the naturalistic point of view, all men are equal. There are only two exceptions to this rule of naturalistic equality: geniuses and idiots.

I begin with the principle that all men are bores. Surely no one will prove himself so great a bore as to contradict me in this.

As far as men go, it is not what they are that interests me, but what they can become.

All the miseries and evils which men suffer from vice, crime, ambition, injustice, oppression, slavery and war, proceed from their despising or neglecting the precepts contained in the Bible.

All wars are civil wars, because all men are brothers.

Education is that whole system of human training within and without the school house walls, which molds and develops men.

I swear by that old expression, 'One monkey don't stop no show!' The reality is, we still have some good men out there, and we should hail those men as the kings they are.

I never yet feared those men who set a place apart in the middle of their cities where they gather to cheat one another and swear oaths which they break.