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Liberty is the only thing you cannot have unless you are willing to give it to others.
William Allen White
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William Allen White
Age: 75 †
Born: 1868
Born: February 10
Died: 1944
Died: January 31
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Every one expects to go further than his father went every one expects to be better than he was born and every generation has one big impulse in its heart - to exceed all the other generations of the past in all the things that make life worth living.
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Live for today. Multitudes of people have failed to live for today.... What they have had within their grasp today they have missed entirely, because only the future has intrigued them.
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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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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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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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Dip your pen into your arteries and write.
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Consistency is a paste jewel that only cheap men cherish.
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I fear vastly more a futile, incompetent old age than I do any form of death.
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We all have weaknesses. But I have figured that others have put up with mine so tolerably that I would be much less than fair not to make a reasonable discount for 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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The facts fairly and honestly presented truth will take care of itself.
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Reason has never failed men. Only force and repression have made the wrecks in the world.
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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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