If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom; and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that too.

Quote by William Somerset Maugham

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If people waited to know one another before they married, the world wouldn't be so...

If people waited to know one another before they married, the world wouldn't be so...

When you are young you take the kindness people show you as your right.

When you are young you take the kindness people show you as your right.

It is salutary to train oneself to be no more affected by censure than by...

It is salutary to train oneself to be no more affected by censure than by...

It's a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best,...

It's a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best,...

Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature...

Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature...

Tolerance is another word for indifference.

Tolerance is another word for indifference.

Genius is talent provided with ideals.

Genius is talent provided with ideals.

A dictator must fool all the people all the time and there's only one way...

A dictator must fool all the people all the time and there's only one way...

She had a pretty gift for quotation, which is a serviceable substitute for wit.

She had a pretty gift for quotation, which is a serviceable substitute for wit.

Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too...

Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too...

Men are passionate, men are weak, men are stupid, men are pitiful; to bring to...

Men are passionate, men are weak, men are stupid, men are pitiful; to bring to...

The world in general doesn't know what to make of originality; it is startled out...

The world in general doesn't know what to make of originality; it is startled out...

In Hollywood, the women are all peaches. It makes one long for an apple occasionally.

In Hollywood, the women are all peaches. It makes one long for an apple occasionally.

Have common sense and stick to the point.

Have common sense and stick to the point.

There are two good things in life freedom of thought and freedom of action

There are two good things in life freedom of thought and freedom of action

I don't know why it is that the religious never ascribe common sense to God

I don't know why it is that the religious never ascribe common sense to God

If you don't change your beliefs, your life will be like this forever. Is that...

If you don't change your beliefs, your life will be like this forever. Is that...

A man who is a politician at forty is a statesman at three score and...

A man who is a politician at forty is a statesman at three score and...

Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that can happen to a...

Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that can happen to a...

There has never been a time when you and I have not existed, nor will...

There has never been a time when you and I have not existed, nor will...