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  • ...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.

    Food   Cooking   Dawn  
  • Any appeasement of tyranny is treason.

  • Dip your pen into your arteries and write.

    Writing   Dip   Arteries  
  • 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.

  • 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.

    Food   Animal   Cooking  
  • 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.

    Father   Heart   Past  
  • 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.

    College   Men   Rebel  
    "Student Riots", editorial in "The Emporia (Kansas) Gazette" (April 8, 1932); reported in "Forty Years on Main Street" compiled by Russell H. Fitzgibbon, (p. 331), 1937.
  • Consistency is a paste jewel that only cheap men cherish.

    William Allen White (1937). “Forty Years on Main Street”
  • My advice to the women of America is to raise more hell and fewer dahlias.

  • I would rather have written Fables in Slang than be President.

  • 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.

    Truth   Stress   Justice  
    William Allen White (1937). “Forty Years on Main Street”
  • Peace without justice is tyranny

    Peace   Editors   Justice  
    William Allen White (1937). “Forty Years on Main Street”
  • 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.

    Moving   Order   World  
    "Student Riots", editorial in "The Emporia (Kansas) Gazette" (April 8, 1932); reported in "Forty Years on Main Street" compiled by Russell H. Fitzgibbon, (p. 331), 1937.
  • Liberty is the only thing you cannot have unless you are willing to give it to others.

  • 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. But the old orders should not be moved easily - certainly not at the mere whim or behest of youth. There must be clash and if youth hasn't enough force or fervor to produce the clash the world grows stale and stagnant and sour in decay.

    Moving   Order   Decay  
    "Student Riots", editorial in "The Emporia (Kansas) Gazette" (April 8, 1932); reported in "Forty Years on Main Street" compiled by Russell H. Fitzgibbon, (p. 331), 1937.
  • 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.

    Two   People   Giving  
  • 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.

    "Forbes", Forbes Incorporated, p. 42, 1953.
  • I fear vastly more a futile, incompetent old age than I do any form of death.

    Age   Aging   Form  
    William Allen White (1937). “Forty Years on Main Street”
  • We say that money talks, but it speaks a broken, poverty-stricken language. Hearts talk better, clearer, and with wider intelligence.

    Heart   Broken   Poverty  
  • Since others have to tolerate my weaknesses, it is only fair that I should tolerate theirs.

  • 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.

    Writing   Mean   Editors  
  • 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.

    Life   Morning   Eye  
  • Whenever a free man is in chains we are threatened also. Whoever is fighting for liberty is defending America.

    Fighting   Men   America  
  • 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.

    Heart   Men   Names  
    William Allen White (1937). “Forty Years on Main Street”
  • 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 (1937). “Forty Years on Main Street”
  • A little learning is not a dangerous thing to one who does not mistake it for a great deal.

    Mistake   Doe   Littles  
  • Greatness, generally speaking, is an unusual quantity of a usual quality grafted upon a common man.

    Men   Greatness   Quality  
  • The talent of a meat packer, the morals of a money changer, and the manners of an undertaker.

    Meat   Moral   Talent  
  • There is no insanity so devastating in man's life as utter sanity.

    Funny   Men   Insanity  
    William Allen White (1937). “Forty Years on Main Street”
  • 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.

    Heart   Men   Voice  
    William Allen White (1937). “Forty Years on Main Street”
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