He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would suffice.
It is certainly true that reason is the most important and the highest rank among all things and, in comparison with other things of this life, the best and something divine. It is the inventor and mentor of all the arts, medicines, laws, and of whatever wisdom, power, virtue, and glory men possess in this life.
A man can dignify his rank; no rank Can dignify a man.
I am a rank individualist.
There is not such a cradle of democracy upon the earth as the Free Public Library, this republic of letters, where neither rank, office, nor wealth receives the slightest consideration.
I have no clan, nor any rank. I am unique.
He who fox-like got his rank, Is wolf-like in his office.
Man's rank is his power to uplift.
I don't rank competitions - every single one is the Olympics to me.
A nation is as great, and only as great, as her rank and file.
There is no influence so powerful as that of the mother, but next in rank in efficacy is that of the schoolmaster.
Pukka sahib or rank outsider--gentleman or bounder--and it's accent, accent, all the way.
Leadership is a choice. It is not a rank.
Waterloo is a battle of the first rank won by a captain of the second
For man to be worthy of any rank, he must strive first to be a man.
The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt to happen when these are abandoned, of race, but of age.
To be vain of one's rank or place is to show that one is below it.
I think the President of the United States must operate by rules. I think our judicial system must operate by the rules. You have to operate by the rules of the system, and if you don't, if you pull rank, then you lose all your credibility.
Jesus , in some respects, was an anarchist, for he had no idea of civil government. That government seems to him purely and simply an abuse. A great social revolution, in which rank will be overturned, in which all authority in this world will be humiliated, was his dream.
It can happen to but few philosophers, and but at distant intervals, to snatch a science, like Dalton, from the chaos of indefinite combination, and binding it in the chains of number, to exalt it to rank amongst the exact. Triumphs like these are necessarily 'few and far between. '