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William Allen White
Age: 75 †
Born: 1868
Born: February 10
Died: 1944
Died: January 31
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I fear vastly more a futile, incompetent old age than I do any form of death.
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Any appeasement of tyranny is treason.
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Reason has never failed men. Only force and repression have made the wrecks in the world.
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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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Since others have to tolerate my weaknesses, it is only fair that I should tolerate theirs.
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I am not afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday and I love today.
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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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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 facts fairly and honestly presented truth will take care of itself.
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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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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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