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  • For it has been said, all that a man hath will he give for his life; and while all contribute of their substance the soldier puts his life at stake, and often yields it up in his country's cause. The highest merit, then is due to the soldier.
  • 6 years ago



    Tags : Abraham Lincoln Quotes , Country Quotes , Men Quotes
  • Our people are slow to learn the wisdom of sending character instead of talent to Congress. Again and again they have sent a man of great acuteness, a fine scholar, a fine forensic orator, and some master of the brawls has crunched him up in his hands like a bit of paper.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Character Quotes , Men Quotes
  • Often war is waged only in order to show valor; thus an inner dignity is ascribed to war itself, and even some philosophers have praised it as an ennoblement of humanity, forgetting the pronouncement of the Greek who said, 'War is an evil in as much as it produces more wicked men than it takes away.'
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Immanuel Kant Quotes , War Quotes , Men Quotes
  • The way of fortune is like the milky way in the sky; which is a meeting, or knot, of a number of small stars, not seen asunder, but giving light together : so are there a number of little and scarce discerned virtues, or rather faculties and customs, that make men fortunate.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Francis Bacon Quotes , Stars Quotes , Men Quotes