All soldiers who serve their country and put their lives at risk need to know that if something happens to them their families will be well taken care of. That's the bond we have with our military men and women and their families.

It is easier to lead men to combat stirring up their passion than to restrain them and direct them toward the patient labors of peace.

When I was a boy the Sioux owned the world. The sun rose and set on their land they sent ten thousand men to battle. Where are the warriors today? Who slew them? Where are our lands? Who owns them?

As soon as men decide that all means are permitted to fight an evil then their good becomes indistinguishable from the evil that they set out to destroy.

Men become civilized not in proportion to their willingness to believe but in proportion to their readiness to doubt.

What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage.

Brave men are all vertebrates they have their softness on the surface and their toughness in the middle.

What I would say to the young men and women who are beset by hopelessness and doubt is that they should go and see what is being done on the ground to fight poverty not like going to the zoo but to take action to open their hearts and their consciences.

The display of grief makes more demands than grief itself. How few men are sad in their own company.

Men are like the stars some generate their own light while others reflect the brilliance they receive.

The integrity of men is to be measured by their conduct not by their professions.

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.

The men who followed Him were unique in their generation. They turned the world upside down because their hearts had been turned right side up. The world has never been the same.

Men are anxious to improve their circumstances but are unwilling to improve themselves they therefore remain bound.

Men take only their needs into consideration - never their abilities.

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.

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.

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

How is it they live in such harmony the billions of stars - when most men can barely go a minute without declaring war in their minds about someone they know.

It is necessary for him who lays out a state and arranges laws for it to presuppose that all men are evil and that they are always going to act according to the wickedness of their spirits whenever they have free scope.

The ideas gained by men before they are twenty-five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.

Men cheat for the same reason that dogs lick their balls... because they can.

The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than black people were made for white or women created for men.

You know when you're young and you see a play in high school and the guys all have gray in their hair and they're trying to be old men and they have no idea what that's like? It's just that stupid the other way around.