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“Where today are the Pequot? Where are the Narragansett, the Mohican, the Pocanet, and other powerful tribes of our people? They have vanished before the avarice and oppression of the white man… Will not the bones of our dead be plowed up, and their graves turned into plowed fields?” –Tecumseh

“There’s a cockeyed yellow poodle to the north of Conga Pooch; There’s a little hot cross bun that’s turning green; There’s a double-jointed woman doing tricks in Chu-Chin-Chow, And you’re a better man than I am, Gunga Din”. –Billy Bennett

“When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her”. –Sacha Guitry

“The free man is he who does not fear to go to the end of his thought”. –Léon Blum

“‘Do equal and exact justice’ is my motto, and I have often said to the grand jury, ‘Permit no innocent man to be punished, but let no guilty man escape'”. –Isaac Parker

“Girls have an unfair advantage over men: if they can’t get what they want by being smart, they can get it by being dumb”. –Yul Brynner

“Credulity is the man’s weakness, but the child’s strength”. –Charles Lamb

“Many a man owes his success to his first wife, and his second wife to his success”. –Jim Backus

“The enemy suggested we surrender through loudspeaker, but our officers and men just laughed and paid no attention”. –Tadamichi Kuribayashi

“Rules are for the guidance of wise men and the obedience of fools”. –Douglas Bader

“Man is the interpreter of nature, science the right interpretation”. –William Whewell

“The life of man is made up of action and endurance; and life is fruitful in the ratio in which it is laid out in noble action or in patient perseverance”. –Henry Liddon

“If I were to personally define religion, I would say that it is a bandage that man has invented to protect a soul made bloody by circumstance”. –Theodore Dreiser

“Man as man can never know God: His wishing, seeking, and striving are all in vain”. –Karl Barth

“The true value of a man is not determined by his possession, supposed or real, of Truth, but rather by his sincere exertion to get to the Truth”. –Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

“Cursed is the man who dies, but the evil done by him survives”. –Abu Bakr

“A time will come when a politician who has willfully made war and promoted international dissension will be as sure of the dock and much surer of the noose than a private homicide. It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men’s lives should not stake their own”. –H.G. Wells

“One should judge a man mainly from his depravities. Virtues can be faked. Depravities are real”. –Klaus Kinski

“Riches don’t make a man rich, they only make him busier”. –Christopher Columbus

“None can love freedom heartily, but good men; the rest love not freedom, but license”. –John Milton

“A diplomat is a man who thinks twice before he says nothing”. –Edward Heath

“Our virtues and our failings are inseparable, like force and matter. When they separate, man is no more”. –Nikola Tesla

“Young men, listen to an old man to whom old men listened when he was young”. –Augustus Cæsar