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The temptation to moralize is strong; it is emotionally satisfying to have enemies rather than problems, to seek out culprits rather than the flaws in the system.


William Sloane Coffin, Jr.

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WILLIAM STRUNK JR. Try - Takes the infinitive: "try to mend it," not "try and mend it." Students of the language will a...
WILLIAM STRUNK JR. Envy is the art of counting the other fellow's blessings instead of your own.
HAROLD COFFIN SYRETT Vermont's a place where barns come painted / Red as a strong man's heart, Where stout carts and stou...
ROBERT TRISTRAM COFFIN Liberals, it has been said, are generous with other peoples' money, except when it comes to ques...
WILLIAM F. BUCKLEY, JR. Scientists are people who build the Brooklyn Bridge and then buy it.
WILLIAM F. BUCKLEY, JR. There are people who think I'm a Bolshevik, and this is all a major distraction at best and here...
WILLIAM CLAY FORD, JR. Just think in terms of green energy and how much time, money, brain power and policy action has star...
WILLIAM CLAY FORD, JR. We must remember that a right lost to one is lost to all.
WILLIAM REECE SMITH, JR. There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One of these is roots; the oth...
WILLIAM HODDING CARTER, JR. Television news is like a lightning flash. It makes a loud noise, lights up everything around it, le...
WILLIAM HODDING CARTER, JR. Congress acknowledged that society's accumulated myths and fears about disability and disease are as...
WILLIAM J. BRENNAN, JR. The Framers of the Bill of Rights did not purport to "create" rights. Rather, they designed the Bill...
WILLIAM J. BRENNAN, JR. It is difficult to understand precisely what the state hopes to achieve by promoting the creation an...
WILLIAM J. BRENNAN, JR. I won't insult your intelligence by suggesting that you really believe what you just said.
WILLIAM F. BUCKLEY JR. My great-grandfather was a man of great vision, drive, and native intelligence, with some human flaw...
WILLIAM CLAY FORD, JR. Even if one takes every reefer madness allegation of the prohibitionists at face value, marijuana pr...
WILLIAM F. BUCKLEY, JR. We love your adherence to democratic principles.
WILLIAM F. BUCKLEY, JR. One can't doubt that the American objective in Iraq has failed - different plans have to be made...
WILLIAM F. BUCKLEY, JR. Congress acknowledged that society's accumulated myths and fears about disability and disease ar...
WILLIAM J. BRENNAN, JR. I won't insult your intelligence by suggesting that you really believe what you just said.
WILLIAM F. BUCKLEY, JR. There is an inverse relationship between reliance on the state and self-reliance.
WILLIAM F. BUCKLEY, JR.