Whenever men take the law into their own hands the loser is the law. And when the law loses freedom languishes.

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What is objectionable what is dangerous about extremists is not that they are extreme but that they

What is objectionable, what is dangerous about extremists, is not that they are extreme, but that they are intolerant. The evil is not what they say about their cause, but what they say about their opponents.

Few will have the greatness to bend history itself, but each of us can work to change a small porti

Few will have the greatness to bend history itself, but each of us can work to change a small portion of events and in the total, of all those acts, will be written the history of this generation.

One-fifth of the people are against everything all the time.

One-fifth of the people are against everything all the time.

I was the seventh of nine children. When you come from that far down you have to struggle to surviv

I was the seventh of nine children. When you come from that far down you have to struggle to survive.

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    Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all of one’s lifetime.

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    The natural thing, my lord, men and women joined.

    The natural thing, my lord, men and women joined.

    Some birds are not meant to be caged, that’s all. Their feathers are too bright, their songs too sweet and wild. So you let them go, or when you open the cage to feed them they somehow fly out past you. And the part of you that knows it was wrong to

    Some birds are not meant to be caged, that’s all. Their feathers are too bright, their songs too sweet and wild. So you let them go, or when you open the cage to feed them they somehow fly out past you. And the part of you that knows it was wrong to imprison them in the first place rejoices, but still, the place where you live is that much more drab and empty for their departure.

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