William Allen White Quotes

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Liberty is the only thing you cannot have unless you are willing to give it to others.

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

William Allen White
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.

William Allen White
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
I fear vastly more a futile, incompetent old age than I do any form of death.

William Allen White
You can have no wise laws nor free enforcement of wise laws unless there is free expression of the wisdom of the people — and, alas, their folly with it. But if there is freedom, folly will die of its own poison, and the wisdom will survive.

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

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If each man or woman could understand that every other human life is as full of sorrows, or joys, or base temptations, of heartaches and of remorse as his own... how much kinder, how much gentler he would be.

William Allen White
The talent of a meat-packer, the morals of a moneychanger and the manners of an undertaker.

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If ever there was a he-harlot, it was this same Warren G. Harding.

William Allen White
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.

William Allen White