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" I must confess that my imagination refuses to see any sort of submarine doing anything but suffocating its crew and floundering at sea. "

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" Advertising is legalized lying. "

" Crime and bad lives are the measure of a State's failure, all crime in the end is the crime of the community. "

" If we don't end war, war will end us. "

" Human history in essence is the history of ideas. "

" Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe. "

" Some people bear three kinds of trouble - the ones they've had, the ones they have, and the ones they expect to have. "

" There's nothing wrong in suffering, if you suffer for a purpose. Our revolution didn't abolish danger or death. It simply made danger and death worthwhile. "

" In politics, strangely enough, the best way to play your cards is to lay them face upwards on the table. "

" Sailors ought never to go to church. They ought to go to hell, where it is much more comfortable. "

" Our true nationality is mankind. "

" Man is the unnatural animal, the rebel child of nature, and more and more does he turn himself against the harsh and fitful hand that reared him. "

" The path of least resistance is the path of the loser. "

" Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature's inexorable imperative. "

" The only true measure of success is the ratio between what we might have done and what we might have been on the one hand, and the thing we have made and the things we have made of ourselves on the other. "

" What really matters is what you do with what you have. "

" A time will come when a politician who has willfully made war and promoted international dissension will be as sure of the dock and much surer of the noose than a private homicide. It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men's lives should not stake their own. "

" Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo. "

" Once the command of the air is obtained by one of the contending armies, the war becomes a conflict between a seeing host and one that is blind. "

" The New Deal is plainly an attempt to achieve a working socialism and avert a social collapse in America; it is extraordinarily parallel to the successive 'policies' and 'Plans' of the Russian experiment. Americans shirk the word 'socialism', but what else can one call it? "

" While there is a chance of the world getting through its troubles, I hold that a reasonable man has to behave as though he were sure of it. If at the end your cheerfulness in not justified, at any rate you will have been cheerful. "

" The past is but the past of a beginning. "

" Biologically the species is the accumulation of the experiments of all its successful individuals since the beginning. "

" One of the darkest evils of our world is surely the unteachable wildness of the Good. "

" No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else's draft. "

" Leaders should lead as far as they can and then vanish. Their ashes should not choke the fire they have lit. "

" Cynicism is humor in ill health. "

" After people have repeated a phrase a great number of times, they begin to realize it has meaning and may even be true. "

" It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men's lives should not pay with their own. "

" Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race. "

" If you fell down yesterday, stand up today. "