
“Every man always has handy a dozen glib little reasons why he is right not to sacrifice himself.”
Source: The Gulag Archipelago 1918-1956
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“When a man has no reason to trust himself, he trusts in luck.”

“A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company.”
As quoted in Ethics and Citizenship (1924) by John Walter Wayland, p. 208.

Aucun homme n'a recu de la nature le droit de commander aux autres. La liberté est un présent du ciel, et chaque individu de la meme espèce a le droit d'en jouir aussitòt qu'il jouit de la raison.
Article on Political Authority, Vol. 1, (1751) as quoted in Selected Writings (1966) edited by Lester G. Crocker
Variant translation: No man has received from nature the right to command his fellow human beings.
L'Encyclopédie (1751-1766)

“He’s not a big man, he’s not a small man, he’s what you might call a handy man.”
Famous quotes, 1949

“Every man has a right to be conceited until he is successful.”
The 'Advertisement' to the 1853 edition.
Books, Coningsby (1844), The Young Duke (1831)

Interview for The Times (31 May 1984) http://www.margaretthatcher.org/document/105505
Second term as Prime Minister