These people are very unskilled in arms... with 50 men they could all be subjected and made to do all that one wished.

It were a real increase of human happiness, could all young men from the age of nineteen be covered under barrels, or rendered otherwise invisible and there left to follow their lawful studies and callings, till they emerged, sadder and wiser, at the age of twenty-five.

A lawyer with his briefcase can steal more than a hundred men with guns.

If you have men who will only come if they know there is a good road, I don't want them. I want men who will come if there is no road at all.

Landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed.

I mean, honestly, we have to be clear that the life for many Afghan women is not that much different than it was a hundred years ago, 200 years ago. The country has lived with so much violence and conflict that many people, men and women, just want it to be over.

Memorial Day this year is especially important as we are reminded almost daily of the great sacrifices that the men and women of the Armed Services make to defend our way of life.

I'm not denyin' the women are foolish. God Almighty made 'em to match the men.

The breakdown of the black community, in order to maintain slavery, began with the breakdown of the black family. Men and women were not legally allowed to get married because you couldn't have that kind of love. It might get in the way of the economics of slavery. Your children could be taken from you and literally sold down the river.

Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of husbands. Remember all men would be tyrants if they could.