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William Allen White (February 10, 1868 – January 29, 1944) was an American newspaper editor, politician, author, and leader of the Progressive movement. Between 1896 and his death, White became a spokesman for middle America.

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

Giving, Libertarian Party, Liberty, Memorial Day, Unless, Willing

. . . 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.

Baked, Barbecue, Cooking, Dawn, Food, Vanishes

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

Age, Aging, Death, Fear, Form

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.

Free, Justice, Stress, Time, Truth

We say that money talks, but it speaks a broken, poverty-stricken language. Hearts talk better, clearer, and with wider intelligence.

Broken, Heart, Intelligence, Money, Poverty, Say

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

Fair, Should, Tolerance, Tolerate, Weakness, Weaknesses

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.

Adventure, Leadership, Morals, Spiritual

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

Women, Inspirational Life, America, Dahlias, Hell, Advice

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.

Big, Father, Heart, Living, Past, Things

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.

Demand, Moving, Order, Radical, World, Youth

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

Encouraging, Love, Positive, Seen, Time, Yesterday

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

Failed, Men, Reason, World, Wrecks

In the Barbecue is any four footed animal -- be it mouse or mastodon -- whose dressed carcass is roasted whole. . . at its best it is a fat steer, and must be eaten within an hour of when it is cooked. For 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.

Animal, Cooking, Dawn, Eaten, Food, Rises

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. Lady Luck has been good to me and I fancy she has been good to everyone. Only some people are dour, and when she gives them the come hither with her eyes, they look down or turn away and lift an eyebrow. But me, I give her the wink and away we go.

Bored, Eye, Give, Life, Morning

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.

Heart, Manhood, Men, Name, Names

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.

Giving, Kick, Kicks, People, Tried, Two

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.

Base, Heartache, Joy, Kinder, Men, Remorse

Consistency is a paste jewel that only cheap men cherish.

Consistency, Jewel, Jewels, Men, Paste

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.

Expression, Free, Laws, Survive, Wisdom, Wise

I would rather have written Fables in Slang than be President.

Fables, President, Slang, Written

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