There are few things more dishonorable than misleading the young.
Talkers are usually more articulate than doers, since talk is their specialty.
- Topic: Action, Speech
- Location: Valley of Fire State Park
- Photo: Jeffrey Benjamin
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It is usually futile to try to talk facts and analysis to people who are enjoying a sense of moral superiority in their ignorance.
Reality doesn't go away when it is ignored.
There has never been a shortage of people eager to draw up blueprints for running other people’s lives.
One of the most pathetic—and dangerous—signs of our times is the growing number of individuals and groups who believe that no one can possibly disagree with them for any honest reason.
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It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them.
The right to free speech is more important than the content of the speech.
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We know how to speak many falsehoods which resemble real things, but we know, when we will, how to speak true things.
It is usually futile to try to talk facts and analysis to people who are enjoying a sense of moral superiority in their ignorance.
