Other lands have their vitality in a few, a class, but we have it in the bulk of our people.
“light up a lifetime” conveys the idea that hope can have a lasting, life-altering impact.
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Other lands have their vitality in a few, a class, but we have it in the bulk of our people.
And ever has it been known that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.
We have always said that in our war with the Arabs we had a secret weapon – no alternative.
All good fortune is a gift of the gods, and you don’t win the favor of the ancient gods by being good, but by being bold.
It’s better to be known by six people for something you’re proud of than by 60 million for something you’re not.
Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.
A creditor is worse than a slave-owner; for the master owns only your person, but a creditor owns your dignity, and can command it.
When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest times, and to the latest.
The sad thing about any business I suppose, but in mine you see it particularly, is that you’re always asked to do what you’ve already done.
One likes people much better when they’re battered down by a prodigious siege of misfortune than when they triumph.
Human brutes, like other beasts, find snares and poison in the provision of life, and are allured by their appetites to their destruction.
The sun, the moon and the stars would have disappeared long ago… had they happened to be within the reach of predatory human hands.
Censorship ends in logical completeness when nobody is allowed to read any books except the books that nobody reads.
Every spirit makes its house, and we can give a shrewd guess from the house to the inhabitant.
Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.
Liberty is not the power of doing what we like, but the right to do what we ought.
I have, indeed, no abhorrence of danger, except in its absolute effect – in terror.
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As I’ve said many times, the single most oppressed class in America right now is the teenager.