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The cure for the evils of democracy is more democracy.
Let no man think we can deny civil liberty to others and retain it for ourselves.
He is no lawyer who cannot take two sides.
The wise man looks at death with honesty, dignity and calm, recognizing that the tragedy it brings is inherent in the great gift of life.
There comes a time when you believe everything is finished. That will be the beginning.
We work by exorcising incessant superstition that there are mysterious tribal gods against you. Nature has neither rewards nor punishments, only consequences. You can use science to make it work for you. There's only nothingness and chaos out there until the human mind recognizes it.
Those who are quite satisfied sit still and do nothing; those who are not quite satisfied are the sole benefactors of the world.
Know yourself. Don't accept your dog's admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful.
Every great writer is a great reformer.
If there were no falsehoods in the world, there would be no doubt; if there were no doubt, there would be no inquiry; if no inquiry, no wisdom, no knowledge, no genius.
Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach him how to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.
Heredity is a splendid phenomenon that relieves us of responsibility for our shortcomings.
Spring is when you feel like whistling even with a shoe full of slush.
The suprising thing about young fools is how many survive to become old fools.
If all the cars in the United States were placed end to end, it would probably be Labor Day Weekend.
Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred to talk.
You can make your world so much larger simply by acknowledging everyone else's.
Free enterprise and the market economy mean war; socialism and planned economy mean peace. We must plan our civilization or we must perish.
Over the years I have learned that what is important in a dress is the woman who is wearing it.
He knows not how to speak who cannot be silent.
Who will sacrifice nothing, and enjoys all, is a fool.
The public seldom forgive twice.
To the Puritan all things are impure.
The great mass of humanity should never learn to read or write.
Many men would take the death-sentence without a whimper to escape the life-sentence which fate carries in her other hand.
The secret of dealing successfully with a child is not to be its parent.
I am a great believer in luck and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.
Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get money from it.
I detest life-insurance agents; they always argue that I shall someday die, which is not so.
Women who seek to be equal to men lack ambition.
All the civilizations we know have been created and directed by small intellectual aristocracies, never by people in the mass. The power of crowds is only to destroy.
Value your words. Each one may be the last.
Is it progress if a cannibal uses a knife and fork?
Shoot all the bluejays you want, if you can hit 'em, but remember it's a sin to kill a mockingbird.
It is well that war is so terrible--lest we should grow too fond of it.
Life is like a sewer. What you get out of it depends on what you put into it.
Plagiarize! Let no one else's work evade your eyes, remember why the good Lord make you eyes, so don't shade your eyes but plagiarize, plagiarize, plagiarize!
While the State exists, there can be no freedom. When there is freedom there will be no State.
Democracy for an insignificant minority, democracy for the rich--that is the democracy of capitalistic society.
Capitalists are no more capable of self-sacrafice than a man is capable of lifting himself by his bootstraps.
When you choose the lesser of two evils, always remember that it is still an evil.
Life is a protracted struggle against the Adversary, who is man himself.
When a white man in Africa by accident looks into the eyes of a native and sees the human being (which it is his chief occupation to avoid), his sense of guilt, which he denies, fumes up in resentment and he brings down the whip.
Nothing under the sun is accidental.
A heretic is a man who sees with his own eyes.
USA Today has come out with a new survey--apparently, three out of every four people make up 75% of the population.
There are two sides to every question: my side and the wrong side.
What the world really needs is more geniuses with humility, there are so few of us left.
The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy.
If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call you could make, who would you call and what would you say? And why are you waiting?
If you want truly to understand something, try to change it.
There is no a priori reason for supposing that the truth, when it is discovered, will necessarily prove interesting.
We laugh at honor and are shocked to find traitors in our midst.
There is wishful thinking in Hell as well as on Earth.
We have trained them to think of the Future as a promised land which favoured heroes attain--not as something which everyone reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.
Many a man who is now willing to be shot down for the sake of a miracle would have doubted, if he had been there, the miracle itself.
Nothing contributes more to a person's peace of mind than having no opinions at all.
Man, in his anxiety to refute evidence that he is a monkey, manages to further the belief that he is an ass.
If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?
Most people are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master.
How many legs does a dog have if you call a tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it a leg.
People who like this sort of thing will find this the sort of thing they like.
Tact is the ability to describe other people as they see themselves.
The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just.
No man has a good enough memory to make a successful liar.
I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.
The ballot is stronger than the bullet.
All I ask for the Negro is that if you do not like him, let him alone. If God gave him but a little, that little let him enjoy.
Let us have faith that right makes might, and in that faith let us to the end dare to do our duty as we understand it.
Why should there not be a patient confidence in the ultimate justice of the people? Is there any better or equal hope in the world?
In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free.
With malice toward none; with charity for all; with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds, to care for him who shall have borne the battle and for his widow and his orphan, to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves, and with all nations.
You may fool all the people some of the time; you can even fool some of the people all of the time; but you can't fool all of the people all of the time.
To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men.
No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
Why should there not be a patient confidence in the ultimate justice of the people? Is there any better or equal hope in the world?
The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and the will to carry on.
There is no pleasure in having nothing to do; the fun is in having lots to do and not doing it.
Slow and steady wins the race.
Great opportunities to help others seldom come, but small ones surround us every day.
New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common.
If you aren't fired with enthusiasm, then you will be fired with enthusiasm.
Winning isn't everything, but wanting to win is.
The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will.
The harder you work the harder it is to surrender.
Leadership rests not merely upon ability, not only upon capacity: having the capacity is not enough. The leader must be willing to use it. Leadership is then based on truth and character. There must be truth in the purpose and will power in the character.
We judge ourselves by what we are capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.
Lives of great gentlemen all remind us we can make our lives sublime, and, departing, leave behind us footprints on the sands of time.
If you haven't got anything good to say about anyone come and sit by me.
Nothing makes a woman more beautiful than the belief that she is beautiful.
The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinion.
If we are ever in doubt about what to do, it is a good idea to ask ourselves what we shall wish on the morrow that we had done.
I have noticed that the people who are late are often so much jollier than the people who have to wait for them.
Nothing from nothing ever yet was born.
The nature of the universe has by no means been made through divine power, seeing how great are the faults that mar it.
The greatest wealth is to live content with little, for there is never want where the mind is satisfied.
Fear of death was the first thing on earth to make the gods.
Whoever wants to be a Christian should tear the eyes out of his Reason.
Freedom is always and exclusively freedom for the one who thinks differently.
Every journalist has a novel in him, which is an excellent place for it.
If at first you don't succeed, find out if the loser gets anything.
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