Posterity is as likely to be wrong as anyone else.

Heywood Broun in Sitting on the World (1924)
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Posterity is as likely to be wrong as anybody else.

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A technical objection is the first refuge of a scoundrel.

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A liberal is a man who leaves the room when the fight begins.

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Nobody talks about God as those who insist that there is no God.

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Nobody talks so constantly about God as those who insist that there is no God.

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Everybody favours free speech in the slack moments when no axes are being ground.

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The great threat to the young and pure in heart is not what they read but what they don't read.

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Hell is paved with great granite blocks hewn from the hearts of those who said, I can do no other.

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Brotherhood is not just a Bible word. Out of comradeship can come and will come the happy life for all.

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