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Security, the chief pretense of civilization, cannot exist where the worst of dangers, the danger of poverty, hangs over everyone's head.

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God's trustiest lieutenants often lack official credentials. They may be professed atheists who are also men of honour and high public spirit.

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Americans adore me and will go on adoring me until I say something nice about them.

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Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.

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Keep away from books and from men who get their ideas from books, and your own books will always be fresh.

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The open mind never acts: when we have done our utmost to arrive at a reasonable conclusion, we still must close our minds for the moment with a snap, and act dogmatically on our conclusions.

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We sing in a church, why can we not dance there?

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You have set up in New York Harbor a monstrous idol which you call Liberty. The only thing that remains to complete that monument is to put on its pedestal the inscription written by Dante on the gate of hell: All hope abandon ye who enter here.

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The truth sticks in our throats with all the sauces it is served with: it will never go down until we take it without any sauce at all.

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The law is equal before all of us; but we are not all equal before the law. Virtually there is one law for the rich and another for the poor, one law for the cunning and another for the simple, one law for the forceful and another for the feeble, one law for the ignorant and another for the learned, one law for the brave and another for the timid, and within family limits one law for the parent and no law at all for the child.

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There are two things necessary to Salvation.... Money and gunpowder.

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Ireland, sir, for good or evil, is like no other place under heaven, and no man can touch its sod or breathe its air without becoming better or worse.

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You practically do not use semicolons at all. This is a symptom of mental defectiveness, probably induced by camp life.

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The censorship method ... is that of handing the job over to some frail and erring mortal man, and making him omnipotent on the assumption that his official status will make him infallible and omniscient.

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Whenever an obviously well founded statement is made in England by a person specially well acquainted with the facts, that unlucky person is instantly and frantically contradicted by all the people who obviously know nothing about it.

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Heartbreak is life educating us.

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Anarchism is a game at which the police can beat you.

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There is nothing that can be changed more completely than human nature when the job is taken in hand early enough.

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Indifference is the essence of inhumanity.

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Bourgeois morality is largely a system of making cheap virtues a cloak for expensive vices.

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