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- When all think alike, then no one is thinking
- The Bill of Rights does not come from the people and is not subject to change by majorities. It comes from the nature of things.…
- If all power is in the people, if there is no higher law than their will, and if by counting their votes, their will may…
- For the newspaper is in all literalness the bible of democracy, the book out of which a people determines its conduct. It is the only…
- Before you can begin to think about politics at all, you have to abandon the notion that there is a war between good men and…
- We are all captives of the picture in our head - our belief that the world we have experienced is the world that really exists.
- An alliance is like a chain. It is not made stronger by adding weak links to it. A great power like the United States gains…
- The news of the days it reaches the newspaper office is an incredible medley of fact, propaganda, rumor, suspicion, clues, hopes, and fears, and the…
- Men fall into a routine when they are tired and slack: it has all the appearance of activity with few of its burdens.
- It is all very well to talk about being the captain of your soul. It is hard, and only a few heroes, saints, and geniuses…
- Success makes men rigid and they tend to exalt stability over all the other virtues; tired of the effort of willing they become fanatics about…
- Men who are orthodox when they are young are in danger of being middle-aged all their lives.
- Only the consciousness of a purpose that is mightier than any man and worthy of all men can fortify and inspirit and compose the souls…
- The prophecy of a world moving toward political unity is the light which guides all that is best, most vigorous, most truly alive in the…
- Culture is the name for what people are interested in, their thoughts, their models, the books they read and the speeches they hear, their table-talk,…
- Where all men think alike, no one thinks very much.
- When all men think alike, no one thinks very much.
- People that are orthodox when they are young are in danger of being middle-aged all their lives.
- Where all think alike, no one thinks very much
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