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> [“Each of us lives with a sword over his head. There are those who can ignore its shadow and those who cannot. Those who cannot are not necessarily better than those who can. But they are the creators of the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/murray-kempton/each-of-us-lives-with-a-sword-over-his-head-there-are-those-who-can/)

[Murray Kempton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/murray-kempton/)

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## More by Murray Kempton

> [It is a measure of the Negro's circumstance that, in America, the smallest things usually take him so very long, and that, by the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/murray-kempton/it-is-a-measure-of-the-negro-s-circumstance-that-in-america-the/)

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> [A political convention is just not a place where you come away with any trace of faith in human nature.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/murray-kempton/a-political-convention-is-just-not-a-place-where-you-come-away-with/)

[Murray Kempton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/murray-kempton/)

> [It is not the least of a martyr's scourges to be canonized by the persons who burned him.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/murray-kempton/it-is-not-the-least-of-a-martyr-s-scourges-to-be-canonized-by-the/)

[Murray Kempton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/murray-kempton/)

> [There is a raging tiger inside every man whom God put on this earth. Every man worthy of the respect of his children spends…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/murray-kempton/there-is-a-raging-tiger-inside-every-man-whom-god-put-on-this-earth/)

[Murray Kempton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/murray-kempton/)

> [As an organized political group, the Communists have done nothing to damage our society a fraction as much as what their enemies have done…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/murray-kempton/as-an-organized-political-group-the-communists-have-done-nothing-to/)

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> [We are a government of laws. Any laws some government hack can find to louse up a man who's down.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/murray-kempton/we-are-a-government-of-laws-any-laws-some-government-hack-can-find-to/)

[Murray Kempton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/murray-kempton/)

> [Any experience deeply felt makes some men better and some men worse. When it has ended, they share nothing but the recollection of a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/murray-kempton/any-experience-deeply-felt-makes-some-men-better-and-some-men-worse/)

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> [A revolution requires of its leaders a record of unbroken infallibility; if they do not possess it, they are expected to invent it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/murray-kempton/a-revolution-requires-of-its-leaders-a-record-of-unbroken/)

[Murray Kempton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/murray-kempton/)

> [It is function of government to invent philosophies to explain the demands of its own convenience.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/murray-kempton/it-is-function-of-government-to-invent-philosophies-to-explain-the/)

[Murray Kempton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/murray-kempton/)

> [Every social war is a battle between the very few on both sides who care and who fire their shots across a crowd of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/murray-kempton/every-social-war-is-a-battle-between-the-very-few-on-both-sides-who/)

[Murray Kempton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/murray-kempton/)

> [Men very seldom change, try though we will, beneath the shifts of exterior doctrine, our hearts so often remain what they were.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/murray-kempton/men-very-seldom-change-try-though-we-will-beneath-the-shifts-of/)

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> [To say that an idea is fashionable is to say, I think, that is has been adulterated to a point where it is hardly…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/murray-kempton/to-say-that-an-idea-is-fashionable-is-to-say-i-think-that-is-has-been/)

[Murray Kempton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/murray-kempton/)

> [A critic is someone who enters the battlefield after the war is over and shoots the wounded.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/murray-kempton/a-critic-is-someone-who-enters-the-battlefield-after-the-war-is-over/)

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> [America... an economic system prouder of the distribution of its products than of the products themselves.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/murray-kempton/america-an-economic-system-prouder-of-the-distribution-of-its/)

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> [There are things a man must not do even to save a nation.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/murray-kempton/there-are-things-a-man-must-not-do-even-to-save-a-nation/)

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