William Allen White Men Quotations

Whoever tramples on the plea for justice temperately made in the name of peace only outrages peace and kills something fine in the heart of man which God put there when we got our manhood.

Greatness, generally speaking, is an unusual quantity of a usual quality grafted upon a common man.

Reason has never failed men. Only force and repression have made the wrecks in the world.

Consistency is the paste jewel that only cheap men cherish.

If each man or woman could understand that every other human life is as full of sorrows, or joys, or base temptations, of heartaches and of remorse as his own . . . how much kinder, how much gentler he would be.

Whenever a free man is in chains we are threatened also. Whoever is fighting for liberty is defending America.

So, dear friend, put fear out of your heart. This nation will survive, this state will prosper, the orderly business of life will go forward if only men can speak in whatever way given them to utter what their hearts hold — by voice, by posted card, by letter or by press. Reason never has failed men. Only force and repression have made the wrecks in the world.

There is no insanity so devastating in man's life as utter sanity.

If our colleges and universities do not breed men who riot, who rebel, who attack life with all the youthful vim and vigor, then there is something wrong with our colleges. The more riots that come on college campuses, the better world for tomorrow.

Consistency is a paste jewel that only cheap men cherish.