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1. The whole modern world has divided itself into Conservatives and Progressives. The business of Progressives is to go on making mistakes. The business of the Conservatives is to prevent the mistakes from being corrected.
2. Thieves respect property. They merely wish the property to become their property that they may more perfectly respect it.
3. A despotism may almost be defined as a tired democracy. As fatigue falls on a community, the citizens are less inclined for that eternal vigilance which has truly been called the price of liberty; and they prefer to arm only one single sentinel to watch the city while they sleep.
4. I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act.
5. "It is shorter to state the things forbidden than the things permitted; precisely because most things are permitted and only a few things forbidden."
6. "There are those who hate Christianity and call their hatred an all-embracing love for all religions."
7. "Self-denial is the test and definition of self-government."
8. "For fear of the newspapers politicians are dull, and at last they are too dull even for the newspapers."
9. "The act of defending any of the cardinal virtues has today all the exhilaration of a vice."
10. "America is the only country ever founded on a creed."
11. "Customs are generally unselfish. Habits are nearly always selfish."
12. "Impartiality is a pompous name for indifference, which is an elegant name for ignorance."
13. "I say that a man must be certain of his morality for the simple reason that he has to suffer for it."
14. "Love means loving the unlovable----or it is no virtue at all."
15. "If there were no God, there would be no atheists."
16. "...but out of the desert, from the dry places and the dreadful suns, come the cruel children of the lonely god; the real Unitarians who with scimitar in hand have laid waste the world. For it is not well for god to be alone."
17. "Gullibility is the key to all adventures. The greenhorn is the ultimate victor in everything; it is he that gets the most out of life."
18. The world will never starve for wonders, but only for want of wonder.
19. "True contentment is a real, even an active, virtue---not only affirmative but creative. It is the power of getting out of any situation all there is in it."
20. "Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere."
21. "Do not free a camel of the burden of his hump; you may be freeing him from being a camel."
22. "Coincidences are spiritual puns."
23. "The coziness between church and state is good for the state and bad for the church."
24. "Whatever else may be said of man, this one thing is clear: He is not what he is capable of being."
25. "One of the great disadvantages of hurry is that it takes such a long time."
26. "To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it."
27. "The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost."
28. "I have known many happy marriages, but never a compatible one. The whole aim of marriage is to fight through and survive the instant when incompatibility becomes unquestionable."
29. "Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live, taking the form of a readiness to die."
30. "Love is not blind; that is the last thing it is. Love is bound; and the more it is bound the less it is blind."
31. "A yawn is a silent shout."
32. "Jesus promised the disciples three things---that they would be completely fearless, absurdly happy and in constant trouble."
33. "Gratitude is the mother of all the virtues."
34. "The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies: probably because they are generally the same people."
35. "Children are innocent and love justice, while most adults are wicked and prefer mercy."
36. "Everywhere there is the persistent and insane attempt to obtain pleasure without paying for it....'Let us have the pleasure of conquerors without the pains of soldiers; let us sit on sofas and be a hardy race.' ...All around us is the city of small sins, abounding in backways and retreats, but surely, sooner or later, the towering flame will rise from the harbor announcing that the reign of the cowards is over and a man is burning his ships."
37. "The issue is now clear. It is between light and darkness and everyone must choose his side."
38. "A stiff apology is a second insult."
39. "If I did not believe in God, I should still want my doctor, my lawyer and my banker to do so."
40. "The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and left untried."
41. "Reason is always a kind of brute force; those who appeal to the head rather than the heart, however pallid and polite, are necessarily men of violence. We speak of 'touching' a man's heart, but we can do nothing to his head but hit it."
