He that would live in peace and at ease must not speak all he knows or all he sees.
- Topic: Communication, Peace, Speech
- Location: Oregon, Sunset Bay
- Photo: Jeffrey Benjamin
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Were it offered to my choice, I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults in the first.
God grant that not only the love of liberty but a thorough knowledge of the rights of man may pervade all the nations of the earth, so that a philosopher may set his foot anywhere on its surface and say: "This is my country."
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On his tongue they pour sweet dew, and from his mouth flow gentle words.
Every word has consequences. Every silence, too.
There is no room in this country for hyphenated Americanism… The one absolutely certain way of brining this nation to ruin, of preventing all possibility of its continuing to be a nation at all, would be to permit it to become a tangle of squabbling nationalities.
Be grateful for your life, every detail of it, and your face will come to shine like a sun, and everyone who sees it will be made glad and peaceful.
Those who are free of resentful thoughts surely find peace.
I hate who steals my solitude without, in exchange, offering me true company.
Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find a better man.
If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen.
Let thy speech be short, comprehending much in few words
Speech is civilization itself. The word, even the most contradictory word, preserves contact—it is silence which isolates.
It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably gracious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them.
People who know what they’re talking about don’t need PowerPoint.
The thought of only being a creature of the present and the past was troubling. I longed for a future, too, with hope in it. The desire to be free, awakened my determination to act, to think, and to speak.
The right to free speech is more important than the content of the speech.
Think lovingly, speak lovingly, act lovingly, and every need shall be supplied.
