Quotes from William Allen White

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

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.

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

Peace without justice is tyranny

Consistency is a paste jewel that only cheap men cherish.

The talent of a meat-packer, the morals of a moneychanger and the manners of an undertaker.

All dressed up, with nowhere to go.

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

Peace without justice is tyranny.

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

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.

Never use the word, 'very.' It is the weakest word in the English language; doesn't mean anything. If you feel the urge of 'very' coming on, just write the word, 'damn,' in the place of 'very.' The editor will strike out the word, 'damn,' and you will have a good sentence.

Democracy is an experiment, and the right of the majority to rule is no more inherent than the right of the minority to rule; and unless the majority represents sane, righteous, unselfish public sentiment, it has no inherent right.

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

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.

Tinhorn politicians.

Any appeasement of tyranny is treason to this republic and to the democratic ideal.

From 4 to 6 percent of the presidential office is not in administration but in morals, politics, and spiritual leadership . He has to guide a people in the greatest adventure ever undertaken on the planet.

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

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

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.

Dip your pen into your arteries and write.

When anything is going to happen in this country, it happens first in Kansas

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