“Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the president or any other public official, save exactly to the degree in which he himself stands by the country. It is patriotic to support him insofar as he efficiently serves the country. It is unpatriotic not to oppose him to the exact extent that by inefficiency or otherwise he fails in his duty to stand by the country. In either event, it is unpatriotic not to tell the truth, whether about the president or anyone else.”
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“I don't like a girl on social media, when you have an open inbox, answering questions from dudes left and right, every day. What's the point? It's like having your number all out.”
“Anybody can become angry - that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way - that is not within everybody's power and is not easy.”
“People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.”
“For the white man to ask the black man if he hates him is just like the rapist asking the raped, or the wolf asking the sheep, 'Do you hate me?' The white man is in no moral position to accuse anyone else of hate! Why, when all of my ancestors are snake-bitten, and I'm snake-bitten, and I warn my children to avoid snakes, what does that snake sound like accusing me of hate-teaching?”
“Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.”
“Too often character assassination has replaced debate in principle here in Washington. Destroy someone's reputation, and you don't have to talk about what he stands for.”
“A cigarette is a pinch of tobacco rolled in paper with fire at one end and a fool at the other.”
“Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime.”
“The people will believe what the media tells them they believe.”
“Do not let anyone claim tribute of American patriotism if they even attempt to remove religion from politics.”
“However [political parties] may now and then answer popular ends, they are likely in the course of time and things, to become potent engines, by which cunning, ambitious, and unprincipled men will be enabled to subvert the power of the people and to usurp for themselves the reins of government, destroying afterwards the very engines which have lifted them to unjust dominion.”
“Silence in the face of evil is evil itself.”
“People who have no hold over their process of thinking are likely to be ruined by liberty of thought. If thought is immature, liberty of thought becomes a method of converting men into animals.”
“Everything the State says is a lie, and everything it has it has stolen.”
“Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.”
“People tend to forget their duties but remember their rights.”
“People speak sometimes about the "bestial" cruelty of man, but that is terribly unjust and offensive to beasts, no animal could ever be so cruel as a man, so artfully, so artistically cruel.”
“Life is hard; it's harder if you're stupid.”
“Justice will not be served until those who are unaffected are as outraged as those who are.”