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William Allen White Inspirational Quotes (36)

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Dip your pen into your arteries and write.
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In education, we are striving not to teach youth to make a living, but to make a life.
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Reason has never failed men. Only force and repression have made the wrecks in the world.
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Since others have to tolerate my weaknesses, it is only fair that I should tolerate theirs.
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Whenever a free man is in chains we are threatened also. Whoever is fighting for liberty is defending America.
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...if ever the sun rises upon Barbecue, its flavor vanishes like Cinderella's silks, and it becomes cold baked beef - staler in the chill dawn than illicit love.
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From 4 to 6 percent of the presidential office is not in administration but in morals, politics, and spiritual leadership . He has to guide a people in the greatest adventure ever undertaken on the planet.
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Whoever tramples on the plea for justice temperately made in the name of peace only outrages peace and kills something fine in the heart of man which God put there when we got our manhood.
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Never use the word, 'very.' It is the weakest word in the English language doesn't mean anything. If you feel the urge of 'very' coming on, just write the word, 'damn,' in the place of 'very.' The editor will strike out the word, 'damn,' and you will have a good sentence.
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Democracy is an experiment, and the right of the majority to rule is no more inherent than the right of the minority to rule and unless the majority represents sane, righteous, unselfish public sentiment, it has no inherent right.
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Peace without justice is tyranny
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My advice to the women of America is to raise more hell and fewer dahlias.
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I would rather have written Fables in Slang than be President.
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Youth should be radical. Youth should demand change in the world. Youth should not accept the old order if the world is to move on.
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If our colleges and universities do not breed men who riot, who rebel, who attack life with all the youthful vim and vigor, then there is something wrong with our colleges. The more riots that come on college campuses, the better world for tomorrow.
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The talent of a meat packer, the morals of a money changer, and the manners of an undertaker.
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I am not afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday and I love today.
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If each man or woman could understand that every other human life is as full of sorrows, or joys, or base temptations, of heartaches and of remorse as his own . . . how much kinder, how much gentler he would be.
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A little learning is not a dangerous thing to one who does not mistake it for a great deal.
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As a matter of fact student riots of one sort or another, protests against the order that is, kicks against college and university management indicate a healthy growth and a normal functioning of the academic mind.
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You say that freedom of utterance is not for time of stress, and I reply with the sad truth that only in time of stress is freedom of utterance in danger? Only when free utterance is suppressed is it needed, and when it is needed it is most vital to justice.
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We say that money talks, but it speaks a broken, poverty-stricken language. Hearts talk better, clearer, and with wider intelligence.
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Liberty is the only thing you cannot have unless you are willing to give it to others.
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Greatness, generally speaking, is an unusual quantity of a usual quality grafted upon a common man.
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