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Top 30 William Allen White Quotes (2025 Update)

William Allen White Quote: “I am not afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday and I love today.”

1. “I am not afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday and I love today.”

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William Allen White Quote: “In education, we are striving not to teach youth to make a living, but to make a life.”

2. “In education, we are striving not to teach youth to make a living, but to make a life.”

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William Allen White Quote: “Peace without justice is tyranny.”

3. “Peace without justice is tyranny.”

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William Allen White Quote: “Liberty is the only thing you cannot have unless you are willing to give it to others.”

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

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William Allen White Quote: “When anything is going to happen in this country, it happens first in Kansas.”

5. “When anything is going to happen in this country, it happens first in Kansas.”

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William Allen White Quote: “Since others have to tolerate my weaknesses, it is only fair that I should tolerate theirs.”

6. “Since others have to tolerate my weaknesses, it is only fair that I should tolerate theirs.”

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William Allen White Quote: “The facts fairly and honestly presented; truth will take care of itself.”

7. “The facts fairly and honestly presented; truth will take care of itself.”

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William Allen White Quote: “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.”

8. “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.”

— William Allen White

William Allen White Quote: “You say that freedom of utterance is not for time of stress, and I reply with the sad truth that only in time of stress is freedom of utterance in danger? Only when free utterance is suppressed is it needed, and when it is needed it is most vital to justice.”

9. “You say that freedom of utterance is not for time of stress, and I reply with the sad truth that only in time of stress is freedom of utterance in danger? Only when free utterance is suppressed is it needed, and when it is needed it is most vital to justice.”

— William Allen White

William Allen White Quote: “Youth should be radical. Youth should demand change in the world. Youth should not accept the old order if the world is to move on.”

10. “Youth should be radical. Youth should demand change in the world. Youth should not accept the old order if the world is to move on.”

— William Allen White

William Allen White Quote: “My advice to the women of America is to raise more hell and fewer dahlias.”

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

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William Allen White Quote: “Any appeasement of tyranny is treason.”

12. “Any appeasement of tyranny is treason.”

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William Allen White Quote: “Whenever a free man is in chains we are threatened also. Whoever is fighting for liberty is defending America.”

13. “Whenever a free man is in chains we are threatened also. Whoever is fighting for liberty is defending America.”

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William Allen White Quote: “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.”

14. “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.”

— William Allen White

William Allen White Quote: “A little learning is not a dangerous thing to one who does not mistake it for a great deal.”

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

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William Allen White Quote: “As a matter of fact student riots of one sort or another, protests against the order that is, kicks against college and university management indicate a healthy growth and a normal functioning of the academic mind.”

16. “As a matter of fact student riots of one sort or another, protests against the order that is, kicks against college and university management indicate a healthy growth and a normal functioning of the academic mind.”

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William Allen White Quote: “I fear vastly more a futile, incompetent old age than I do any form of death.”

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

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William Allen White Quote: “Dip your pen into your arteries and write.”

18. “Dip your pen into your arteries and write.”

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William Allen White Quote: “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.”

19. “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.”

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William Allen White Quote: “Consistency is a paste jewel that only cheap men cherish.”

20. “Consistency is a paste jewel that only cheap men cherish.”

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William Allen White Quote: “If our colleges and universities do not breed men who riot, who rebel, who attack life with all the youthful vim and vigor, then there is something wrong with our colleges. The more riots that come on college campuses, the better world for tomorrow.”

21. “If our colleges and universities do not breed men who riot, who rebel, who attack life with all the youthful vim and vigor, then there is something wrong with our colleges. The more riots that come on college campuses, the better world for tomorrow.”

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William Allen White Quote: “Every one expects to go further than his father went; every one expects to be better than he was born and every generation has one big impulse in its heart – to exceed all the other generations of the past in all the things that make life worth living.”

22. “Every one expects to go further than his father went; every one expects to be better than he was born and every generation has one big impulse in its heart – to exceed all the other generations of the past in all the things that make life worth living.”

— William Allen White

William Allen White Quote: “The talent of a meat packer, the morals of a money changer, and the manners of an undertaker.”

23. “The talent of a meat packer, the morals of a money changer, and the manners of an undertaker.”

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William Allen White Quote: “We all have weaknesses. But I have figured that others have put up with mine so tolerably that I would be much less than fair not to make a reasonable discount for theirs.”

24. “We all have weaknesses. But I have figured that others have put up with mine so tolerably that I would be much less than fair not to make a reasonable discount for theirs.”

— William Allen White

William Allen White Quote: “We say that money talks, but it speaks a broken, poverty-stricken language. Hearts talk better, clearer, and with wider intelligence.”

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

— William Allen White

William Allen White Quote: “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.”

26. “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.”

— William Allen White

William Allen White Quote: “You can have no wise laws nor free enforcement of wise laws unless there is free expression of the wisdom of the people – and, alas, their folly with it. But if there is freedom, folly will die of its own poison, and the wisdom will survive.”

27. “You can have no wise laws nor free enforcement of wise laws unless there is free expression of the wisdom of the people – and, alas, their folly with it. But if there is freedom, folly will die of its own poison, and the wisdom will survive.”

— William Allen White

William Allen White Quote: “The more riots that come out of our college campuses, the better the world for tomorrow.”

28. “The more riots that come out of our college campuses, the better the world for tomorrow.”

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William Allen White Quote: “There is no insanity so devastating in man’s life as utter sanity.”

29. “There is no insanity so devastating in man’s life as utter sanity.”

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William Allen White Quote: “I would rather have written Fables in Slang than be President.”

30. “I would rather have written Fables in Slang than be President.”

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William Allen White Quote: “Greatness, generally speaking, is an unusual quantity of a usual quality grafted upon a common man.”

31. “Greatness, generally speaking, is an unusual quantity of a usual quality grafted upon a common man.”

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William Allen White Quote: “I have tried to teach people there are three kicks in every dollar: one, when you make it; two, when you have it. The third kick it when you give it away – and it is the biggest kick of all.”

32. “I have tried to teach people there are three kicks in every dollar: one, when you make it; two, when you have it. The third kick it when you give it away – and it is the biggest kick of all.”

— William Allen White

William Allen White Quote: “Reason has never failed men. Only force and repression have made the wrecks in the world.”

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

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William Allen White Quote: “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.”

34. “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.”

— William Allen White

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