A Quote by Charles Simmons

No man has a right to do as he pleases, except when he pleases to do right.

Charles Simmons

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Except Man Pleases Right

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Charles Simmons
British - Politician
April 9, 1893 - August 11, 1975

No man has a right to do what he pleases, except when he pleases to do right.

Charles Simmons

I believe each individual is naturally entitled to do as he pleases with himself and the fruit of his labor, so far as it in no wise interferes with any other mans rightsthat each community, as a State, has a right to do exactly as it pleases with all the concerns within that State that interfere with the right of no other State, and that the general government, upon principle, has no right to interfere with anything other than that general class of things that does concern the whole.

Abraham Lincoln

A man may twist as he pleases, and do what he pleases, but he inevitably comes back to the track to which nature has destined him.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The man whom no one pleases is much more unhappy than the man who pleases no one.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Every man has a right to keep his own sentiments if he pleases.

Richard Yates

A male has the right to wander about as he pleases. He has the right to marry any number of girls. This practice has led to prostitution.

Periyar E. V. Ramasamy

Our first postulate is that because God is God, He does as He pleases, only as He pleases, always as He pleases; that His great concern is the accomplishment of His own pleasure and the promotion of His own glory that He is the Supreme Being, and therefore Sovereign of the universe.

Arthur W. Pink

An absolute monarchy is one in which the sovereign does as he pleases so long as he pleases the assassins.

Ambrose Bierce

Fill your plate with the colours of the rainbow. What pleases the eye, pleases the body.

Deepak Chopra

Is any man free except the one who can pass his life as he pleases?

Persius

I believe in an America where the rights that I have described are enjoyed by all, regardless of their race or their creed or their national origin - where every citizen is free to think and speak as he pleases and write and worship as he pleases - and where every citizen is free to vote as he pleases, without instructions from anyone, his employer, the union leader or his clergyman.

John F. Kennedy

The more one pleases everybody, the less one pleases profoundly.

Stendhal

I demand the independence of woman, her right to support herself; to live for herself; to love whomever she pleases, or as many as she pleases. I demand freedom for both sexes, freedom of action, freedom in love and freedom in motherhood.

Emma Goldman

The herd may graze where it pleases or stampede where it pleases, but he who lives the adventurous life will remain unafraid when he finds himself alone.

Raymond B. Fosdick

I'm a believer in presenting something that is worth paying to see. I've always felt lucky in that the work that pleases me pleases other people as well.