Best Quotes by William Allen White (Top 10)
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I am not afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday and I love today!
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My advice to the women of America is to raise more hell and fewer dahlias.
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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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Peace without justice is tyranny
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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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Liberty is the only thing you cannot have unless you are willing to give it to others.
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Dip your pen into your arteries and write.
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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. But the old orders should not be moved easily - certainly not at the mere whim or behest of youth. There must be clash and if youth hasn't enough force or fervor to produce the clash the world grows stale and stagnant and sour in decay.
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So, dear friend, put fear out of your heart. This nation will survive, this state will prosper, the orderly business of life will go forward if only men can speak in whatever way given them to utter what their hearts hold by voice, by posted card, by letter or by press. Reason never has failed men. Only force and repression have made the wrecks in the world.
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More William Allen White Quotes
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So, dear friend, put fear out of your heart. This nation will survive, this state will prosper, the orderly business of life will go forward if only men can speak in whatever way given them to utter what their hearts hold by voice, by posted card, by letter or by press. Reason never has failed men. Only force and repression have made the wrecks in the world.
William Allen White
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Since others have to tolerate my weaknesses, it is only fair that I should tolerate theirs.
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Liberty is the only thing you can't have unless you give it to others.
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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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A little learning is not a dangerous thing to one who does not mistake it for a great deal.
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Consistency is a paste jewel that only cheap men cherish.
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The facts fairly and honestly presented; truth will take care of itself.
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There is no insanity so devastating in man's life as utter sanity.
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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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Greatness, generally speaking, is an unusual quantity of a usual quality grafted upon a common man.
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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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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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Advertising is the genie which is transforming America into a place of comfort, luxury and ease for millions.
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Any appeasement of tyranny is treason to this republic and to the democratic ideal
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