William Allen Quotes

My advice to the women of America is to raise more hell and fewer dahlias.

Peace without justice is tyranny

Liberty is the only thing you cannot have unless you are willing to give it to others.

I have never been bored an hour in my life. I get up every morning wondering what new strange glamorous thing is going to happen and it happens at fairly regular intervals.

In education, we are striving not to teach youth to make a living, but to make a life.

Any appeasement of tyranny is treason.

We say that money talks, but it speaks a broken, poverty-stricken language. Hearts talk better, clearer, and with wider intelligence.

I have tried to teach people there are three kicks in every dollar: one, when you make it; two, when you have it. The third kick it when you give it away - and it is the biggest kick of all.

Dip your pen into your arteries and write.

Since others have to tolerate my weaknesses, it is only fair that I should tolerate theirs.

A little learning is not a dangerous thing to one who does not mistake it for a great deal.

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

The talent of a meat packer, the morals of a money changer, and the manners of an undertaker.

The facts fairly and honestly presented; truth will take care of itself.

I fear vastly more a futile, incompetent old age than I do any form of death.

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

Consistency is a paste jewel that only cheap men cherish.

Live for today. Multitudes of people have failed to live for today.... What they have had within their grasp today they have missed entirely, because only the future has intrigued them.

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

The more riots that come out of our college campuses, the better the world for tomorrow.

...if ever the sun rises upon Barbecue, its flavor vanishes like Cinderella's silks, and it becomes cold baked beef - staler in the chill dawn than illicit love.

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

Youth should be radical. Youth should demand change in the world. Youth should not accept the old order if the world is to move on.

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.

I would rather have written Fables in Slang than be President.

We all have weaknesses. But I have figured that others have put up with mine so tolerably that I would be much less than fair not to make a reasonable discount for theirs.

Peace without justice is tyranny.

I am not afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday and I love today!

Live for today. Multitudes of people have failed to live for today. ... What they have had within their grasp today they have missed entirely because only the future has intrigued them.

I am not afraid of tomorrow for I have seen yesterday and I love today.

America - the best poor man's country in the world.

Every great movement needs an agitator. Every leader of spiritual ideals need a John the Baptist.