I stand on the sidewalk watching it because the responsibility is mine and I must, I take a very firm hold on the handles of the baby carriage and I wheel it into the traffic.
I stand on the sidewalk watching it because the responsibility is mine and I must, I take a very firm hold on the handles of the baby carriage and I wheel it into the traffic.
The good we secure for ourselves is precarious and uncertain until it is secured for all of us and incorporated into our common life.
The intellectual tradition is one of servility to power, and if I didn’t betray it I’d be ashamed of myself.
There is no substitute for hard work, 23 or 24 hours a day. And there is no substitute for patience and acceptance.
The first and continuing argument for the curtailment of working hours and the raising of the minimum age was that education was necessary in a democracy and working children could not attend school.
We draw our strength from the very despair in which we have been forced to live. We shall endure.
Censorship is never over for those who have experienced it. It is a brand on the imagination that affects the individual who has suffered it, forever.
Unless our conception of patriotism is progressive, it cannot hope to embody the real affection and the real interest of the nation.
Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles of generation are used is free and infinitely varied. Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation.
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