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No president in history has been more vilified or was more vilivied during the time he was President than Lincoln. Those who knew him, his secretaries, have written that he was deeply hurt by what was said about him and drawn about him, but on the other hand, Lincoln had the great strength of character never to display it, always able to stand tall and strong and firm no matter how harsh or unfair the criticism might be. These elements of greatness, of course, inspire us all today.

Richard Nixon

When the character of a man is not clear to you, look at his friends.

Japanese Proverb

Here is an artificial city which has been pumped up under forced draught, inflated like a balloon, stuffed with rural humanity like a goose with corn...endeavoring to eat up this too rapid avalanche of anthropoids, the sunshine metropolis heaves and strains, sweats and becomes pop-eyed, like a young boa constrictor trying to swallow a goat. It has never imparted an urban character to its incoming population for the simple reason that it has never had any character to impart. On the other hand, the place has the manners, culture and general outlook of a huge country village.

Morrow Mayo

A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
(1742 - 1799)

Be as careful of the books you read, as of the company you keep; for your habits and character will be as much influenced by the former as by the latter.

Paxton Hood

Put more trust in nobility of character than in an oath.

Solon
Greek lawgiver & politician in Athens (638 BC - 559 BC)

Without an acquaintance with the rules of propriety, it is impossible for the character to be established.

Confucius, The Confucian Analects
Chinese philosopher & reformer (551 BC - 479 BC)

It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered.

Aeschylus, Agamemnon
Greek tragic dramatist (525 BC - 456 BC)

You can tell the character of every man when you see how he receives praise.

Seneca, Epistles
Roman dramatist, philosopher, & politician (5 BC - 65 AD)

A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.

G. C. Lichtenberg

Talents are best nurtured in solitude; but character is best formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Johan Wolfgang von Goethe

The last time anybody made a list of the top hundred character attributes of New Yorkers, common sense snuck in at number 79.

Douglas Adams, "Mostly Harmless"
English humorist & science fiction novelist (1952 - 2001)

It has been observed that a pure democracy if it were practicable would be the most perfect government. Experience has proved that no position is more false than this. The ancient democracies in which the people themselves deliberated never possessed one good feature of government. Their very character was tyranny; their figure deformity.

Alexander Hamilton, Speech on 21 June 1788 urging ratification of the Constitution in New York.
US (Scottish-born) lawyer & politician (1755 - 1804)

People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.

Hermann Hesse
Swiss (German-born) author (1877 - 1962)

In all the affairs of life, social as well as political, courtesies of a small and trivial character are the ones which strike deepest to the grateful and appreciating heart.

Henry Clay
US orator & politician (1777 - 1852)

The character of every act depends upon the circumstances in which it is done.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
US jurist (1841 - 1935)

In men of the highest character and noblest genius there is to be found an insatiable desire for honour, command, power, and glory.

Cicero
Roman author, orator, & politician (106 BC - 43 BC)

The character of a man is known from his conversations.

Menander
Greek comic dramatist (342 BC - 292 BC)

Knowledge is essential to conquest; only according to our ignorance are we helpless. Thought creates character. Character can dominate conditions. Will creates circumstances and environment.

Anne Besant
English social reformer & mystic in India (1847 - 1933)

It violates right order whenever capital so employees the working or wage-earning classes as to divert business and economic activity entirely to its own arbitrary will and advantage without, the social character of economic life, social justice, and the common good.

Pope Pius XI
Italian scholar & pope 1922-1939 (1857 - 1939)

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