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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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I have never been bored an hour in my life. I get up every morning wondering what new strange glamorous thing is going to happen and it happens at fairly regular intervals.
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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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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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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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The talent of a meat packer, the morals of a money changer, and the manners of an undertaker.
William Allen White
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.
William Allen White
I am not afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday and I love today.
William Allen White
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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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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Any appeasement of tyranny is treason.
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There is no insanity so devastating in man's life as utter sanity.
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I would rather have written Fables in Slang than be President.
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Greatness, generally speaking, is an unusual quantity of a usual quality grafted upon a common man.
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The more riots that come out of our college campuses, the better the world for tomorrow.
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I have tried to teach people there are three kicks in every dollar: one, when you make it two, when you have it. The third kick it when you give it away - and it is the biggest kick of all.
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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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Whenever a free man is in chains we are threatened also. Whoever is fighting for liberty is defending America.
William Allen White
A little learning is not a dangerous thing to one who does not mistake it for a great deal.
William Allen White
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.
William Allen White
