Good Men Quotes

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.

It's always the good men who do the most harm in the world.

Bad men need nothing more to compass their ends, than that good men should look on and do nothing.

The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.

Though I know that he had something to do with the attack simulation, and with all those deaths, I find it difficult to pair those actions with the man I see in front of me. I wonder if this is how it is with all evil men, that to someone, they look just like good men, talk like good men, are just as likeable as good men.

The TV business is uglier than most things. It is normally perceived as some kind of cruel and shallow money trench through the heart of the journalism industry, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free and good men die like dogs, for no good reason. There's also a negative side.

Good men must not obey the laws too well.

Good men and women come to Washington and get caught in a culture of corruption.

Evil prospers when good men do nothing.

Men do not take good iron to make nails or good men to make soldiers.

Show me that age and country where the rights and liberties of the people were placed on the sole chance of their rulers being good men without a consequent loss of liberty! I say that the loss of that dearest privilege has ever followed, with absolute certainty, every such mad attempt. Shall Liberty or Empire be Sought?

I am approached with the most opposite opinions and advice .... These are not, however, the days of miracles, and I supposed it will be granted that I am not to expect a direct revelation. I must study the plain physical facts of the case, ascertain what is possible and learn what appears to be wise and right. The subject is difficult, and good men do not agree.

Good men must defend themselves by taking to them for a Sanctuary the two daughters of War, Deceit and Violence:

I know some say, let us have good laws, and no matter for the men that execute them: but let them consider, that though good laws do well, good men do better: for good laws may want good men, and be abolished or evaded by ill mend but good men will never want good laws, nor suffer ill ones.

None But such as are good men can give good things, And that which is not good, is not delicious To a well-govern'd and wise appetite.

There live not three good men unhanged in England; and one of them is fat and grows old.

Every actual State is corrupt. Good men must not obey laws too well.

In every generation good men have been perplexed by the paradoxical relation between moral and economic values.

The natural desire of good men is knowledge.

Good men make good decisions.

The House is composed of very good men, not shining, but honest and reasonably well-informed, and in time will be found to improve, and not much inferior in eloquence, science, and dignity, to the British Commons. They are patriotic enough, and I believe there are more stupid (as well as more shining) people in the latter, in proportion.

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.

To sit home, read one's favorite paper, and scoff at the misdeeds of the men who do things is easy, but it is markedly ineffective. It is what evil men count upon the good men's doing.

Men suck. - Not all men. Just the really good ones.

Good men are often more practical than pretty " said Mother. "Andrius just happens to be both.