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Men are mortal, but ideas are immortal.
Even God has been defended with nonsense.
When all think alike, then no one is thinking
The news and the truth are not the same thing.
Industry is a better horse to ride than genius.
When all men think alike, no one thinks very much.
When everyone thinks the same, nobody is thinking.
Where all men think alike, no one thinks very much.
When everyone thinks alike, no one thinks very much.
All achievement should be measured in human happiness.
Brains, you know, are suspect in the Republican Party.
There is nothing so bad but it can masquerade as moral.
To keep a faith pure, man had better retire to a monastery.
To understand is not only to pardon, but in the end to love.
Democracy is much too important to be left to public opinion.
It is better to catch the idol-maker than to smash each idol.
Genius sees the dynamic purpose first, find reasons afterward.
Freedom to speak... can be maintained only by promoting debate.
In a place where everybody thinks alike, nobody thinks very much.
The present crisis of Western democracy is a crisis in journalism.
It is so much easier to talk of poverty than to think of the poor.
In the blood of the martyrs to intolerance are the seeds of unbelief
Art enlarges experience by admitting us to the inner life of others.
We are concerned in public affairs, but immersed in our private ones.
It is at the cross-roads that skepticism is born, not in a hermitage.
Ignore what a man desires and you ignore the very source of his power.
Life can be swamped by sex very easily if sex is not normally satisfied.
The press does not tell us what to think, it tells us what to think about.
The facts we see depend on where we are placed and the habits of our eyes.
It is impossible to abolish either with a law or an axe the desires of men.
In places where men are used to differences they inevitably become tolerant.
It is easier to develop great power than it is to know how to use it wisely.
A really good diplomat does not go in for victories, even when he wins them.
Many a time I have wanted to stop talking and find out what I really believed.
Unless our ideas are questioned, they become part of the furniture of eternity.
Run against the grain of a nation's genius and see where you get with your laws.
Robinson Crusoe, the self-sufficient man, could not have lived in New York city.
When philosophers try to be politicians they generally cease to be philosophers.
Love endures when the lovers love many things together And not merely each other.
Nobody has yet found a way of bombing that can prevent foot soldiers from walking.
Private property was the original source of freedom. It still is its main bulwark.
It is in time of peace that the value of life is fixed. The test of war reveals it.
Private property was the original source of freedom. It still is its main ballpark.
When men can no longer be theists, they must, if they are civilized, become humanists.
It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.
There can be no liberty for a community which lacks the means by which to detect lies.
There can be no higher law in journalism than to tell the truth and to shame the devil.
Without criticism and reliable and intelligent reporting, the government cannot govern.
What a myth never contains is the critical power to separate its truth from its errors.
Happiness cannot be the reward of virtue; it must be the intelligible consequence of it.