WILLIAM ALLEN WHITE

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.

I am not afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday and I love today!

A little learning is not a dangerous thing to one who does not mistake it for a great deal.

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

Reason has never failed men. Only force and repression have made the wrecks in the world.

Advertising is the genie which is transforming America into a place of comfort, luxury and ease for millions.

Liberty is the only thing you can't have unless you give it to others.

My advice to the women of America is to raise more hell and fewer dahlias.

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

Peace without justice is tyranny.

The facts fairly and honestly presented; truth will take care of itself.

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.

Consistency is the paste jewel that only cheap men cherish.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

The more riots that come out of our college campuses, the better the world for tomorrow.

...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.

From 4 to 6 percent of the presidential office is not in administration but in morals, politics, and spiritual leadership . He has to guide a people in the greatest adventure ever undertaken on the planet.

There is no insanity so devastating in man's life as utter sanity.

Dip your pen into your arteries and write.

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.

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.