But all my life through, the very insistence on truth has taught me to appreciate the beauty of compromise.
Howsoever you may repair it, a rift is a rift.
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The vaccine is a filthy substance and it is foolish to expect that one kind of filth can be removed by another.
You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body, buy you will never imprison my mind.
Conscientious objectors to vaccination should stand alone, if need be, against the whole world, in defense of their conviction.
What barrier is there that love cannot break?
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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.
How could man rejoice in victory and delight in the slaughter of men?
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.
Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties.
Madness does not govern a country; discussion does.
I wish no explanation made to our enemies. What they want is a squabble and a fuss; and that they can have if we explain; and they cannot have if we don’t.
When elephants fight, ants get killed.
The progression of emancipation of any class usually, if not always, takes place through the efforts of individuals of that class.
Keep in mind that the true measure of an individual is how he treats a person who can do him absolutely no good.
Next to the assumption of power is the responsibility of relinquishing it.
The greatest kindness one can render to any man is leading him to truth.
Leaders must understand that some people will inevitably sell out to the evil side. Don't waste your time wondering why; spend your time discovering who.
Consensus: the process of abandoning all beliefs, principles, values, and policies in search of something in which no one believes, but to which no one objects; the process of avoiding the very issues that have to be solved, merely because you cannot get agreement on the way ahead. What great cause would have been fought and won under the banner: 'I stand for consensus?
In all negotiations of difficulty, a man may not look to sow and reap at once; but must prepare business, and so ripen it by degrees.
