When we appropriate money from the public funds to pay for vaccinating a horde of negroes, we do not do it because we have any sympathy for them or because we crave their blessings, but simply because we don't want…

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Husbands never become good; they merely become proficient

Husbands never become good; they merely become proficient

The central difficulty lies in the fact that all of the sciences have made such...

The central difficulty lies in the fact that all of the sciences have made such...

Injustice is relatively easy to bear; what stings is justice

Injustice is relatively easy to bear; what stings is justice

Free speech is too dangerous to a democracy to be permitted

Free speech is too dangerous to a democracy to be permitted

Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable.

Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable.

If women believed in their husbands they would be a good deal happier - and...

If women believed in their husbands they would be a good deal happier - and...

Science, at bottom, is really anti-intellectual. It always distrusts pure reason, and demands the production...

Science, at bottom, is really anti-intellectual. It always distrusts pure reason, and demands the production...

A good politician is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar

A good politician is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar

Men become civilized not in proportion to their willingness to believe but in proportion to...

Men become civilized not in proportion to their willingness to believe but in proportion to...

Who ever heard, indeed, of an autobiography that was not (interesting)? I can recall none...

Who ever heard, indeed, of an autobiography that was not (interesting)? I can recall none...

Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible...

Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible...

Progress is the process whereby the human race is getting rid of whiskers, the veriform...

Progress is the process whereby the human race is getting rid of whiskers, the veriform...

An individual who forces himself to accept this or that idea, or who pretends to...

An individual who forces himself to accept this or that idea, or who pretends to...

The smallest atom of truth represents some man's bitter toil and agony; for every ponderable...

The smallest atom of truth represents some man's bitter toil and agony; for every ponderable...

There are two kinds of books: those that no one reads and those that no...

There are two kinds of books: those that no one reads and those that no...

Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.

Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.

All talk of winning the people by appealing to their intelligence, of conquering them by...

All talk of winning the people by appealing to their intelligence, of conquering them by...

To perceive things in the germ is intelligence.

To perceive things in the germ is intelligence.

The ability to take pleasure in one's life is a skill and is a kind...

The ability to take pleasure in one's life is a skill and is a kind...

I rise today to discuss the National Intelligence Reform bill. I commend my colleagues in...

I rise today to discuss the National Intelligence Reform bill. I commend my colleagues in...