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Consistency is a paste jewel that only cheap men cherish.
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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Reason has never failed men. Only force and repression have made the wrecks in the world.
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I would rather have written Fables in Slang than be President.
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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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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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You can have no wise laws nor free enforcement of wise laws unless there is free expression of the wisdom of the people -- and, alas, their folly with it. But if there is freedom, folly will die of its own poison, and the wisdom will survive.
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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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The facts fairly and honestly presented truth will take care of itself.
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I fear vastly more a futile, incompetent old age than I do any form of death.
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