A liberal is a man who leaves a room when the fight begins. |
A technical objection is the first refuge of a scoundrel |
Appeasers believe that if you keep on throwing steaks to a tiger, the tiger will become a vegetarian |
Brotherhood is not just a Bible word. Out of comradeship can come and will come the happy life for all. |
Brotherhood is not just a Bible word. Out of comradeship can come and will come the happy life for all. |
Everybody favors free speech in the slack moments when no axes are being ground |
Except that right side up is best, there is not much to learn about holding a baby. There are one hundred and fifty-two distinctly different ways --and all are right! At least all will do. |
For truth there is no deadline. |
God, as some cynic has said, is always on the side which has the best football coach |
Her mind is so open that the wind whistles through it |
I doubt whether the world holds for any one a more soul-stirring surprise than the first adventure with ice cream |
I might resume the habit of going to church if the preacher would be honest enough to stand up some morning and say, "Perhaps next Sunday, but not today," and then sit down |
In some respects the life of a censor is more exhilarating that of an emperor. The best the emperor can do is to snip off the heads of men and women, who are mere mortals. The censor can decapitate ideas which but for him might have lived forever. |
Just as every conviction begins as a whim so does every emancipator serve his apprenticeship as a crank. A fanatic is a great leader who is just entering the room. |
Men are blind in their own cause. |