Top 36 William Allen White Quotes
#1. 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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#2. My advice to the women of America is to raise more hell and fewer dahlias.
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#3. Every great movement needs an agitator. Every leader of spiritual ideals need a John the Baptist.
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#4. The talent of a meat packer, the morals of a money changer, and the manners of an undertaker.
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#5. 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.
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#7. Reason has never failed men. Only force and repression have made the wrecks in the world.
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#8. 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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#9. Whoever tramples on the plea for justice temperately made in the name of peace only outrages peace and kills something fine in the heart of man which God put there when we got our manhood.
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#10. I fear vastly more a futile, incompetent old age than I do any form of death.
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#11. 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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#12. Advertising is the genie which is transforming America into a place of comfort, luxury and ease for millions.
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#14. A little learning is not a dangerous thing to one who does not mistake it for a great deal.
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#15. Liberty is the only thing you cannot have unless you are willing to give it to others.
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#16. We say that money talks, but it speaks a broken, poverty-stricken language. Hearts talk better, clearer, and with wider intelligence.
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#17. If ever the sun rises upon Barbecue, its flavor vanishes like Cinderella's silks, and it becomes cold baked beef - staler in the chill dawn than illicit love.
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#18. Never use the word, 'very.' It is the weakest word in the English language; doesn't mean anything. If you feel the urge of 'very' coming on, just write the word, 'damn,' in the place of 'very.' The editor will strike out the word, 'damn,' and you will have a good sentence.
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#19. 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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#21. The more riots that come out of our college campuses, the better the world for tomorrow.
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#22. 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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#23. In education, we are striving not to teach youth to make a living, but to make a life.
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#24. Liberty is the only thing you can't have unless you give it to others.
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#25. 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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#26. Whenever a free man is in chains we are threatened also. Whoever is fighting for liberty is defending America.
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#27. 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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#28. The facts fairly and honestly presented; truth will take care of itself.
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#29. Greatness, generally speaking, is an unusual quantity of a usual quality grafted upon a common man.
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#30. 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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#31. 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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#32. 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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#35. Since others have to tolerate my weaknesses, it is only fair that I should tolerate theirs.
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