"I am convinced that everything that is worth while in the world has been accomplished by the free, inquiring, critical spirit, and that the preservation of this spirit is more important than any social system whatsoever. But the men of ritual and the men of barbarism are capable of shutting up the men of science and silencing them forever."

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Source : Sinclair Lewis (2017). “It Can't Happen Here”, p.359, PublishDrive

Sinclair Lewis

#Men Quotes #Forever Quotes #Important Quotes

“Men who only live to eat.”
“I would not be opposed to devising a new system of pensions, in which one part was based on collective provision, but which also gave incentives for people to take out an additional, personal plan.”
“If the salmon and steelhead are running, then as far as I am concerned, God knows that all is well in His worldthe health of the environment is good if the salmon and steelhead are around. It is that simple.”
“Great faith is the product of great fights.”
“Is there a God? No. God is a verb, not a noun.”
“Learning the notes on the fretboard is key to any guitarist's development on the instrument, and [Guitar] Trainer HD is a neat way to get that info burned into your brain without having to carry a guitar with you everywhere you go. Pretty cool!”
“Freedom is no guarantee of anything. It is only defined today by what it is not. What it is takes forms strange and of infinite variety - bizarre as in a masquerade.”

Source : Josephine Winslow Johnson (1996). “The Inland Island”, Writer's Digest Books
“It is not true that Congress spends money like a drunken sailor. Drunken sailors spend their own money. Congress spends our money.”

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