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He is a benefactor of mankind who contracts the great rules of life into short sentences, that may be easily impressed on the memory, and so recur habitually to the mind (Quote by - Samuel Johnson)

You shall not press down upon the brow of labor this crown of thorns - you shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold!. (Quote by - W. J. Bryan)

Each of us inevitable; Each of us limitless - each of us with his or her right upon the earth; Each of us allowed the eternal purports of the earth; Each of us here as divinely as any is here. (Quote by - Walt Whitman)

Since the general civilization of mankind I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations. (Quote by - James Madison)

Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other. (Quote by - Edmund Burke)

Hero-worship exists, has existed, and will forever exist, universally among mankind. (Quote by - Thomas Carlyle)

Work is the grand cure of all the maladies and miseries that ever beset mankind. (Quote by - Thomas Carlyle)

The best use of a journal is to print the largest practical amount of important truth, - truth which tends to make mankind wiser, and thus happier. (Quote by - Horace Greeley)

While there is a lower class, I am in it; while there is a criminal element, I am of it; while there is a soul in prision, I am not free. (Quote by - Eugene V Debs)

The interests of childhood and youth are the interests of mankind. (Quote by - Edmund Storer James)

There is only one way to degrade mankind permanently and that is to destroy language. (Quote by - Northrop Frye)

Man is a political animal. (Quote by - Aristotle)

The only thing that will redeem mankind is cooperation. (Quote by - Bertrand Russell)

In faith and hope the world will disagree, but all mankind's concern is charity. (Quote by - Alexander Pope)

The fates have given mankind a patient soul. (Quote by - Homer)

Our true nationality is mankind. (Quote by - H. G. Wells)

Strike from mankind the principle of faith, and men would have no more history than a flock of sheep. (Quote by - Edward Bulwer-Lytton)

The race of mankind would perish did they cease to aid each other. We cannot exist without mutual help. All therefore that need aid have a right to ask it from their fellow man; and no one who has the power of granting can refuse it without guilt. (Quote by - Sir Walter Scott)

Things are in the saddle, and ride mankind. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)

The main task of a free society is to civilize the struggle for power. Slavery of the acquiescent majority to the ruthless few is the hereditary state of mankind; freedom, a rarely acquired characteristic. (Quote by - R. H. S. Crossman)

A tool is but the extension of a man's hand, and a machine is but a complex tool. And he that invents a machine augments the power of a man and the well-being of mankind. (Quote by - Henry Ward Beecher)

An old man concludeth from his knowing mankind that they know him too, and that maketh him very wary. (Quote by - George Saville)

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