Speech is a kind of action.
tr. B. Jowett (1894)
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Speech is a kind of action.
tr. B. Jowett (1894)
Les habiles tyrans ne sont jamais punis.
[Clever tyrants are never punished.]
Alcohol is like love: the first kiss is magic, the second is intimate, the third is routine. After that you just take the girl's clothes off.
You've got to be optimist to be a Democrat, and you've got to be a humorist to stay one.
Some of her answers might excite popular prejudice, but if there is any principle of the Constitution that more imperatively calls for attachment than any other it is the principle of free thought -- not free thought for those who agree with us but freedom for the thought that we hate. I think we should adhere to that principle with regard to admission into, as well as life within, this country.
No nation was ever so virtuous as each believes itself, and none was ever so wicked as each believes the other.
It is easier to behave your way into a new way of thinking than to think your way into a new way of behaving.
In J. Peers (ed.) 1,001 Logical Laws (1979)
In great contests each party claims to act in accordance with the will of God. Both may be, and one must be, wrong. God cannot be for and against the same thing at the same time.
The world is full of vulgar Purists, who bring discredit on all selection by the silliness of their choice; and this the more, because the very becoming a Purist is commonly indicative of some slight degree of weakness, readiness to be offended, or narrowness of understanding of the ends of things.
At all times, day by day, we have to continue fighting for freedom of religion, freedom of speech, and freedom from want — for these are things that must be gained in peace as well as in war.
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