Ah lives of men! When prosperous they glitter - Like a fair picture when misfortune comes - A wet sponge at one blow has blurred the painting.
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.
Although I do wrong I do not the wrongs that I am charged with doing the wrong that I do is through the frailty of human nature like other men. No man lives without fault.
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.
Even if society dictates that men and women should behave in certain ways it is fathers and mothers who teach those ways to children not just in the words they say but in the lives they lead.
When we are really honest with ourselves we must admit our lives are all that really belong to us. So it is how we use our lives that determines the kind of men we are.
The ideas gained by men before they are twenty-five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.
All men are tempted. There is no man that lives that can't be broken down provided it is the right temptation put in the right spot.
Let men see let them know a real man who lives as he was meant to live.
I try to speak my points of view about black America and how I feel about black men and the role that black men should play in their lives with their children and in their lives with their women.
Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after.
Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men.
Commitment means that it is possible for a man to yield the nerve center of his consent to a purpose or cause a movement or an ideal which may be more important to him than whether he lives or dies.
Many men owe the grandeur of their lives to their tremendous difficulties.
The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation.
Modern medical advances have helped millions of people live longer healthier lives. We owe these improvements to decades of investment in medical research.
During a trip to Iraq last fall I visited our theater hospital at Balad Air Force Base and witnessed these skilled medical professionals in action and met the brave soldiers whose lives they saved.