#good men

A return to first principles in a republic is sometimes caused by the simple virtues of one man. His good example has such an influence that the good men strive to imitate him, and the wicked are ashamed to lead a life so contrary to his example. ↗

— Niccolo Machiavelli

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Most women don't like good men. They say they want a good buy, but most women always wind up with the bad boy. ↗

— Stephanie Mills

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None can love freedom heartily, but good men; the rest love not freedom, but licence. ↗

— John Milton

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Educate the heart. Let us have good men. ↗

— Hiram Powers

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The laws were not made so much for the direction of good men, as to circumscribe the bad. ↗

— Samuel Richardson

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Good men are the stars, the planets of the ages wherein they live, and illustrate the times. ↗

— Ben Jonson

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Good men, whether they be Christians or rationalists, do not desire to discriminate between races, but the distinctions implanted by Nature are too conspicuous to escape the observation of our senses. ↗

— Arthur Keith

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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. ↗

— Angie Stone

#good #good men #hail #i #kings

FDR had been Assistant Secretary of the Navy. They told me, now forgotten, just how many pictures of ships they took out of the White House after he died. But he could choose good men. ↗

— Stuart Symington

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You have been tried by twelve good men and true, not of your peers but as high above you as heaven is of hell, and they have said you are guilty. ↗

— Roy Bean

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