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Peace without justice is tyranny
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Peace without justice is tyranny.
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Peace
Justice
Tyranny
Without
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Any appeasement of tyranny is treason.
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Appeasement
Tyranny
Tyrants
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Dip your pen into your arteries and write.
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Arteries
Dip
Writing
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Consistency is a paste jewel that only cheap men cherish.
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Intelligence
Men
Consistency
Jewels
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Consistency is the paste jewel that only cheap men cherish.
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Cherish
Consistency
Cheap
Jewel
Paste
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I would rather have written Fables in Slang than be President.
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Fables
President
Slang
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There is no insanity so devastating in man's life as utter sanity.
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Funny
Men
Insanity
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Liberty is the only thing you can't have unless you give it to others.
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Liberty
Give
The Only Thing
Unless
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I am not afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday and I love today.
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Daughter
Encouraging
Positive
Fear
Time
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The facts fairly and honestly presented; truth will take care of itself.
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Truth
Care
Facts
Honestly
Take Care
Fairly
Presented
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I am not afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday and I love today!
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Inspirational
Today
Tomorrow
Yesterday
Love Today Tomorrow
Afraid
Am
Seen
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My advice to the women of America is to raise more hell and fewer dahlias.
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Women
Advice
America
Fewer
Hell
Inspirational Life
Raise
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I fear vastly more a futile, incompetent old age than I do any form of death.
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Age
Aging
Form
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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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Memorial Day
Giving
Libertarian Party
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In education, we are striving not to teach youth to make a living, but to make a life.
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Strive
Teach
Youth
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The more riots that come out of our college campuses, the better the world for tomorrow.
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College
Tomorrow
World
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Reason has never failed men. Only force and repression have made the wrecks in the world.
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Men
Force
Made
Reason
Repression
World
Wrecks
Failed
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Since others have to tolerate my weaknesses, it is only fair that I should tolerate theirs.
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Should
Tolerance
Tolerate
Weakness
Since
Fair
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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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Dangerous
Doe
Littles
Mistake
Does
Deal
Dangerous Thing
Great Deal
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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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Meat
Moral
Talent
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Greatness, generally speaking, is an unusual quantity of a usual quality grafted upon a common man.
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Quality
Men
Common
Common Man
Greatness
Unusual
Usual
Generally
Speaking
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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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Advertising
Comfort
Ease
Luxury
Millions
Transforming
Genie
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Whenever a free man is in chains we are threatened also. Whoever is fighting for liberty is defending America.
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Men
America
Fighting
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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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Moving
Order
World
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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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Broken
Heart
Poverty
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...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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Food
Cooking
Dawn
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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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Power
Weakness
Would Be
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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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Morning
Bored
Glamorous
Happens
Intervals
Strange
Fairly
Life Morning My Life
Hour
Regular
Wondering
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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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Intrigued
Live For Today
People
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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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Men
Fine
Heart
Manhood
Names
Plea
Whoever
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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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Giving
People
Teach
Two
Dollar
Third
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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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Leadership
Adventure
Office
Spiritual
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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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Men
Heartache
Joy
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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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College
Healthy
Order
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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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Government
Democracy
Majority
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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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Wisdom
Wise
Expression
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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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Men
College
Rebel
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Every one expects to go further than his father went; every one expects to be better than he was born and every generation has one big impulse in its heart - to exceed all the other generations of the past in all the things that make life worth living.
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Father
Heart
Past
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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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Truth
Justice
Stress
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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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Editors
Mean
Writing
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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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Heart
Voice
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In the Barbecue is any four footed animal -- be it mouse or mastodon -- whose dressed carcass is roasted whole... at its best it is a fat steer, and must be eaten within an hour of when it is cooked. For 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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Food
Animal
Cooking
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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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Decay
Moving
Order
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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. Lady Luck has been good to me and I fancy she has been good to everyone. Only some people are dour, and when she gives them the come hither with her eyes, they look down or turn away and lift an eyebrow. But me, I give her the wink and away we go.
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Life
Morning
Eye
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