Quotes About Choice

We call ourselves a free nation, and yet we let ourselves be told what cabs we can and can't take by a man at a hotel door, simply because he has a drum major's uniform on.

Being a male is a matter of birth. Being a man is a matter of choice.

No man chooses evil because it's evil. He only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks.

Man is what he wills himself to be.

Happiness is secured through virtue; it is a good attained by man's own will.

Temptation is like a knife, that may either cut the meat or the throat of a man; it may be his food or his poison, his exercise or his destruction

Gentlemen, you may soon have the alternative to live as slaves or die as free men

A man becomes a Christian, he is not born one.

How well I have learned that there is no fence to sit on between heaven and hell. There is a deep, wide gulf, a chasm, and in that chasm is no place for any man.

It is better to be a slave to your beloved woman than a free man to the unloved one.

Men make their own history

they go and set up free-will with the heathen philosophers and say that a man's free will is the cause why God chooseth and not another, contrary to all scriptures.

Once a man has tasted freedom he will never be content to be a slave.

Fortune knocks at every man's door once in a life, but in a good many cases the man is in a neighboring saloon and does not hear her.

The essence of drama is that man cannot walk away from the consequences of his own deeds.

You gotta understand: I'm a man with needs that needs fulfilling. And if you ain't with it, somebody else is willing.

Fate is the raw materials of experience. They come uninvited and often unanticipated. Destiny is what a man does with these raw materials.

For man is man and master of his fate.

There is no worse tyranny than to force a man to pay for what he does not want merely because you think it would be good for him.

The time is near at hand which must determine whether Americans are to be free men or slaves.

The best of men choose one thing in preference to all else, immortal glory in preference to mortal good; whereas the masses simply glut themselves like cattle.

A man can surely do what he wills to do, but cannot determine what he wills.

It is sometimes better to be a dead man than a live woman.

Democracy is all about not electing the wrong man-eating lizard.