William Allen White famous quotes

Peace without justice is tyranny
-- William Allen White

#Justice #Tyranny

I am not afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday and I love today.
-- William Allen White

#Positive #Yesterday #Today

Liberty is the only thing you cannot have unless you are willing to give it to others.
-- William Allen White

#Giving #Liberty #Politics

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.
-- William Allen White

#Men #Heartache #Joy

In education, we are striving not to teach youth to make a living, but to make a life.
-- William Allen White

#Youth #Strive #Teach

Dip your pen into your arteries and write.
-- William Allen White

#Writing #Dip #Arteries

Since others have to tolerate my weaknesses, it is only fair that I should tolerate theirs.
-- William Allen White

#Tolerance #Weakness #Should

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.
-- William Allen White

#Leadership #Spiritual #Adventure

A little learning is not a dangerous thing to one who does not mistake it for a great deal.
-- William Allen White

#Mistake #Doe #Littles

Whenever a free man is in chains we are threatened also. Whoever is fighting for liberty is defending America.
-- William Allen White

#Fighting #Men #America

...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.
-- William Allen White

#Flavor #Sun #Dawn

Any appeasement of tyranny is treason.
-- William Allen White

#Appeasement #Tyranny #Treason

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.
-- William Allen White

#Power #Weakness #Would Be

Greatness, generally speaking, is an unusual quantity of a usual quality grafted upon a common man.
-- William Allen White

#Greatness #Men #Quality

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.
-- William Allen White

#Life #Morning #Eye

Reason has never failed men. Only force and repression have made the wrecks in the world.
-- William Allen White

#Men #World #Wrecks

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.
-- William Allen White

#Moving #Order #World

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.
-- William Allen White

#Truth #Stress #Justice

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.
-- William Allen White

#College #Order #Healthy

We say that money talks, but it speaks a broken, poverty-stricken language. Hearts talk better, clearer, and with wider intelligence.
-- William Allen White

#Heart #Broken #Poverty

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.
-- William Allen White

#Animal #Beef #Flavor

The more riots that come out of our college campuses, the better the world for tomorrow.
-- William Allen White

#College #World #Tomorrow

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.
-- William Allen White

#Two #Giving #People

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.
-- William Allen White

#Morning #Bored #Strange

The facts fairly and honestly presented; truth will take care of itself.
-- William Allen White

#Truth #Care #Facts

I fear vastly more a futile, incompetent old age than I do any form of death.
-- William Allen White

#Age #Aging #Form

There is no insanity so devastating in man's life as utter sanity.
-- William Allen White

#Men #Insanity #Sanity

Consistency is a paste jewel that only cheap men cherish.
-- William Allen White

#Men #Jewels #Consistency

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.
-- William Allen White

#People #Today #Intrigued

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.
-- William Allen White

#College #Men #Vigor

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.
-- William Allen White

#Father #Heart #Past

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.
-- William Allen White

#Government #Democracy #Minorities

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.
-- William Allen White

#Wise #Expression #Law

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.
-- William Allen White

#Mean #Writing #Editors

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.
-- William Allen White

#Heart #Men #Names

The talent of a meat packer, the morals of a money changer, and the manners of an undertaker.
-- William Allen White

#Meat #Moral #Talent

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.
-- William Allen White

#Heart #Men #Voice

My advice to the women of America is to raise more hell and fewer dahlias.
-- William Allen White

#Women #Inspirational Life #America