Henry A. Wallace quote: "This dullness of vision regarding the importance of the general welfare to the individual is the measure of the failure of our schools and churches to teach the spiritual significance of genuine democracy."

It is no coincidence that the growth of modern tyrants has in every case been heralded by the growth...
HENRY A. WALLACE

We must not tolerate oppressive government or industrial oligarchy in the form of monopolies and car...
HENRY A. WALLACE

The American fascist would prefer not to use violence. His method is to poison the channels of publi...
HENRY A. WALLACE

If we put our trust in the common sense of common men and 'with malice toward none and charity for a...
HENRY A. WALLACE

The dangerous American fascist is the man who wants to do in the United States in an American way wh...
HENRY A. WALLACE

Our chemical and other manufacturing concerns are all too often ready to let the Germans have Latin ...
HENRY A. WALLACE

The symptoms of fascist thinking are colored by environment and adapted to immediate circumstances. ...
HENRY A. WALLACE

A fascist is one whose lust for money or power is combined with such an intensity of intolerance tow...
HENRY A. WALLACE

The fascists in most Latin American countries tell the people that the reason their wages will not b...
HENRY A. WALLACE

It has been claimed at times that our modern age of technology facilitates dictatorship.
HENRY A. WALLACE

Their final objective toward which all their deceit is directed is to capture political power so tha...
HENRY A. WALLACE

The American fascists are most easily recognized by their deliberate perversion of truth and fact. T...
HENRY A. WALLACE

There are probably several hundred thousand if we narrow the definition to include only those who in...
HENRY A. WALLACE

The myth of fascist efficiency has deluded many people.
HENRY A. WALLACE

Most American fascists are enthusiastically supporting the war effort. They are doing this even in t...
HENRY A. WALLACE

Monopolists who fear competition and who distrust democracy because it stands for equal opportunity ...
HENRY A. WALLACE

Until democracy in effective enthusiastic action fills the vacuum created by the power of modern inv...
HENRY A. WALLACE

The obvious types of American fascists are dealt with on the air and in the press. These demagogues ...
HENRY A. WALLACE

If we define an American fascist as one who in case of conflict puts money and power ahead of human ...
HENRY A. WALLACE

With a fascist the problem is never how best to present the truth to the public but how best to use ...
HENRY A. WALLACE

The worldwide, agelong struggle between fascism and democracy will not stop when the fighting ends i...
HENRY A. WALLACE

What we must understand is that the industries, processes, and inventions created by modern science ...
HENRY A. WALLACE

If we put our trust in the common sense of common men and 'with malice toward none and charity f...
HENRY A. WALLACE

A liberal knows that the only certainty in this life is change but believes that the change can be d...
HENRY A. WALLACE

The obvious types of American fascists are dealt with on the air and in the press. These demagogues ...
HENRY A. WALLACE

Fascism is a worldwide disease. Its greatest threat to the United States will come after the war, ei...
HENRY A. WALLACE

It may be shocking to some people in this country to realize that, without meaning to do so, they ho...
HENRY A. WALLACE

In an effort to eliminate the possibility of any rival growing up, some monopolists would sacrifice ...
HENRY A. WALLACE

If this liberal potential is properly channeled, we may expect the area of freedom of the United Sta...
HENRY A. WALLACE

They are patriotic in time of war because it is to their interest to be so, but in time of peace the...
HENRY A. WALLACE

Still another danger is represented by those who, paying lip service to democracy and the common wel...
HENRY A. WALLACE

The century which we are entering can be and must be the century of the common man.
HENRY WALLACE

By that time, we'll have found houses, cemeteries and other sites selected for more extensive excava...
HENRY WALLACE

We have not seen any difference on deliveries here.
HENRY WALLACE

So if that were to turn out that way, then obviously we would miss the 18th consecutive quarter.
HENRY WALLACE

Given what I see right now, I think we're all comfortable with this estimate, that we can meet that.
HENRY WALLACE

We're all living in a chemical soup.
LANCE A. WALLACE

Being a Negro writer these days is a racket and I'm going to make the most of it while it lasts. Abo...
WALLACE HENRY THURMAN

People in cities may forget the soil for as long as a hundred years, but Mother Nature's memory ...
HENRY CANTWELL WALLACE

I will not nullify, I will not secede, but I will under sovereign State authority fight in the Union...
HENRY A. WISE

It was a Greek tragedy. Nixon was fulfilling his own nature. Once it started it could not end otherw...
HENRY A. KISSINGER

Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.
HENRY A. KISSINGER

I have lately returned from Harpers Ferry, to which place I was suddenly called, on the 17th instant...
HENRY A. WISE

If the Republican Congress had been as concerned with the welfare of Medicare beneficiaries as it wa...
HENRY A. WAXMAN

The routine promotion of condoms through advertising has been stopped by networks who are so hypocri...
HENRY A. WAXMAN

We should be doing our utmost to ensure that all are protected against discrimination,
HENRY A. WAXMAN

President Bush has handed out some of the country's most difficult and important jobs - leadership p...
HENRY A. WAXMAN

doomed legislation.
HENRY A. WAXMAN

Obviously, the involvement of the vice president raises profoundly disturbing questions, ... We need...
HENRY A. WAXMAN

Pedagogy is always about power, because it cannot be separated from how subjectives are formed, desi...
HENRY A. GIROUX

If it hadn't been for Congress looking at this issue, seriously concerned about it, there would not ...
HENRY A. WAXMAN

Infuriating and inexcusable, ... He's burning through taxpayer dollars, and Washington Republicans w...
HENRY A. WAXMAN

We seem to be paying a heck of a lot of money for these ships. I'm trying to determine if this is a ...
HENRY A. WAXMAN

We want an independent commission,
HENRY A. WAXMAN

However, I'm disappointed that he isn't trying to find out how this scandal was allowed to happen, ....
HENRY A. WAXMAN

Una "persona" hace lo que debe, cuando debe y donde debe. Una "bestia" hace lo que le da la gana, cu...
HENRY A. ROJAS L.

It is scarcely the same thing to put a man on the Moon as to put a bone in your nose.
WILLIAM A. HENRY III

I'm William Wallace, and the rest of you will be spared. Go back to England and tell them... Sco...
WILLIAM WALLACE

I do not know which to prefer, The beauty of inflections, Or the beauty of innuendoes, The blackbird...
WALLACE STEVENS

After the final no there comes a yes and on that yes the future of the world hangs.
WALLACE STEVENS

Reality is not what it is. It consists of the many realities which it can be made into.
WALLACE STEVENS

Death is the mother of Beauty; hence from her, alone, shall come fulfillment to our dreams and our d...
WALLACE STEVENS

The imagination is man's power over nature.
WALLACE STEVENS

Most people read poetry listening for echoes because the echoes are familiar to them. They wade thro...
WALLACE STEVENS

In poetry, you must love the words, the ideas and the images and rhythms with all your capacity to l...
WALLACE STEVENS

The way through the world is more difficult to find than the way beyond it.
WALLACE STEVENS

Our bloom is gone. We are the fruit thereof.
WALLACE STEVENS

Money is a kind of poetry.
WALLACE STEVENS

A poet looks at the world the way a man looks at a woman.
WALLACE STEVENS

We say God and the imagination are one... How high that highest candle lights the dark.
WALLACE STEVENS

Intolerance respecting other people's religion is toleration itself in comparison with intoleran...
WALLACE STEVENS

The only emperor is the emperor of ice cream.
WALLACE STEVENS

In the world of words, the imagination is one of the forces of nature.
WALLACE STEVENS

A poem need not have a meaning and like most things in nature often does not have.
WALLACE STEVENS

Thought is an infection. In the case of certain thoughts, it becomes an epidemic.
WALLACE STEVENS

Hard writing makes easy reading.
WALLACE STEGNER

Most things break, including hearts. The lessons of life amount not to wisdom, but to scar tissue an...
WALLACE STEGNER

A teacher enlarges people in all sorts of ways besides just his subject matter.
WALLACE STEGNER

In real life, every person is the leading man or woman. We don't think of ourselves as supportin...
WALLACE SHAWN

There's nothing regular about my life at all, really. I don't keep a regular schedule and ev...
WALLACE SHAWN

I'm afraid that the passage of time is mostly lost on me. If you were to open up my head you wou...
WALLACE SHAWN

Even with my wife, I find sharing soup is hard.
WALLACE SHAWN

Contrary to the popular misconception, the actor is not necessarily a specialist in imitating or por...
WALLACE SHAWN

I sincerely believe that if Bush and Cheney recognized the full humanity of other people's mothe...
WALLACE SHAWN

After being in one movie, it didn't seem like that would be my life. I had done several jobs, br...
WALLACE SHAWN

I have more free time than a lot of individuals, so, instead of talking, I sometimes write.
WALLACE SHAWN

I'm not proud to be me, I'm not excited to be me, but I find that I am me, and like most oth...
WALLACE SHAWN

I don't happen to have a sense of humor personally, so I don't know what's funny about a...
WALLACE SHAWN

Patriotism is considered to be an emotion a person ought to feel. But why? Why is it nobler to love ...
WALLACE SHAWN

I'm being mocked because I don't live up to a socially determined view of what other people ...
WALLACE SHAWN

My personal life is lived as 'me,' but my professional life is lived as other people. In oth...
WALLACE SHAWN

I spend most of my time thinking about things like laundry and buying stationery supplies.
WALLACE SHAWN

'The Fever' is a one-person play. I decided I would perform it myself, and I decided I would...
WALLACE SHAWN

We are not what we seem. We are more than what we seem. The actor knows that. And because the actor ...
WALLACE SHAWN

It is hard enough to make a plan for how you are going to spend an evening with somebody else. So to...
WALLACE SHAWN

I am recognized a lot for 'Clueless,' but I am recognized a great deal for 'The Princess...
WALLACE SHAWN

When I was a child, I did always feel that people were hiding things, and that they weren't expr...
WALLACE SHAWN

We're in an emergency situation. The United States has become an absolutely terrifying country, ...
WALLACE SHAWN

Children, I always think, are just putting on a performance of being naive and not understanding any...
WALLACE SHAWN

I choose parts because I don't want to be embarrassed when the movie comes out. What if my frien...
WALLACE SHAWN

'The Princess Bride' is by far the most popular film I've ever done. I don't think I...
WALLACE SHAWN

Under no circumstance is any proverbial player ever more significant than the collective.
CARLOS WALLACE

You're a good man," Fang said. "You're the last good man in this whole town. All the good that could...
DANIEL WALLACE

In making the jump from a local program to the showcase of a coast-to-coast broadcast, Ted Yates and...
MIKE WALLACE

... I was reminded of a remark of Willa Cather's, that you can't paint sunlight, you can only paint ...
WALLACE STEGNER

Death is the mother of Beauty; hence from her,
Alone, shall come fulfillment to our dreams
An...
WALLACE STEVENS

The reading of a poem should be an experience. Its writing must be all the more so.
WALLACE STEVENS

Democritus plucked his eye out because he could not look at a woman without thinking of her as a wom...
WALLACE STEVENS

O! Desolated Scotland, too credulous of fair speeches, and not aware of the calamities which are com...
WILLIAM WALLACE

Campaigns bring out the warriors in everybody.
NICOLLE WALLACE

I think a lot of people in television news look at the cable networks with great envy.
CHRIS WALLACE

Cut blocking is not fair, it's going after the legs. It would be the same thing if in NASCAR you wer...
AL WALLACE

Football was a game that had kicked me around pretty good for a few years. I almost called him and s...
AL WALLACE

If you look at the film like we did this morning, he's making more plays after the first and second ...
AL WALLACE

You win football games by stopping the run and 1,800 yards this year is definitely a priority for us...
AL WALLACE

It's a good feeling to go out and play like we did. So many guys made so many plays today. We gave t...
AL WALLACE

It's going to be interesting. They have a great team. Some great weapons on offense and their defens...
AL WALLACE

You try to contain (Vick) as best you can, but once he's in your sights you have to open fire. If yo...
AL WALLACE

With our legs and knees there is enough bad stuff that can happen on accident. But to allow someone ...
AL WALLACE

I fell down in the mud and here it comes falling down in my lap.
AL WALLACE

It's kind of scary. You look at the things they're doing, 4-0 now, it's kind of parallel to what we ...
AL WALLACE

I think the long-term potential is very, very good. There's a large amount of energy in the ocean.
ALAN WALLACE

These guys are so dedicated and passionate about what they do.
ALAN WALLACE

I'm a qualified lifeguard and have being teaching people how to surf for five years now. Victor used...
ALAN WALLACE

I have had this ambition for quite a long time but just did not know how to do it.
ALAN WALLACE

The existence of biases hurts recruiting. Intentionally overlooking some things just because you wan...
ALAN WALLACE

I don't know what religious people do. I kind of wished I'd been a Christian with the blind ...
MARCIA WALLACE

What our eyes behold may well be the text of life but one's meditations on the text and the disclo...
WALLACE STEVENS

They said, You have a blue guitar, you do not play things as they are. The man replied, Things as th...
WALLACE STEVENS

I never had the slightest desire to be a major league manager, and all knew it. But Ban Johnson, Bob...
BOBBY WALLACE

When I was a boy, the priest, my uncle, carefully inculcated upon me this proverb, which I then lear...
WILLIAM WALLACE

Academic politics is the most vicious and bitter form of politics, because the stakes are so low
WALLACE SAYRE

Is killing a known terrorist wrong? I ask this, did the terrorist allow any of his victims quarter? ...
T.R. WALLACE

I don't expect people to forget my brash words or deeds. But I ask that they try to remember the...
GEORGE WALLACE

There must be some other possibility than death or lifelong penance ... some meeting, some intersect...
WALLACE STEGNER

Opusculum paedagogicum
The pears are not viols,
Nudes or bottles.
They resemble nothing els...
WALLACE STEVENS

In the midst of combat, we learned a great deal about mankind and its many different races, creeds a...
CARLOS WALLACE

Poetry is the statement of a relation between a man and the world.
WALLACE STEVENS

Perhaps there is a degree of perception at which what is real and what is imagines are one: a state ...
WALLACE STEVENS

The poet is the priest of the invisible.
WALLACE STEVENS

One cannot be pessimistic about the West. This is the native home of hope. When it fully learns that...
WALLACE STEGNER

I don't think people think about Zook anymore at Florida. He's just a memory there now.
ALLEN WALLACE

If he (Schilling) goes to Washington that will be a giant positive for them in many different ways.
ALLEN WALLACE

A player makes a name for himself and then causes younger players to look and see what can be accomp...
ALLEN WALLACE

If you win the mythical recruiting title, it shows you're focused, you've got momentum and that you'...
ALLEN WALLACE

They [Stoops and Carroll] have a unique ability to plan for the short term and the long term at the ...
ALLEN WALLACE

It's always harder to stay at the top. Soon they're going to find out what it's like to try to recru...
ALLEN WALLACE

You don't see Penn State hanging on in the latter stages of these recruiting races for difference ma...
ALLEN WALLACE

I think it's case of Penn State not focusing on the right kids. You don't see them often bringing in...
ALLEN WALLACE

They have the stature now where they can appeal to anyone, anyplace.
ALLEN WALLACE

Ultimately, it’s about determining what matters most to you; what’s important; what it will take...
CARLOS WALLACE

A storyteller makes up things to help other people; a liar makes up things to help himself.
DANIEL WALLACE

Human nature is like water. It takes the shape of its container.
WALLACE STEVENS

How red the rose that is the soldier
WALLACE STEVENS

One cannot spend one's time in being modern when there are so many more important things to be.
WALLACE STEVENS

Most modern reproducers of life, even including the camera, really repudiate it. We gulp down evil, ...
WALLACE STEVENS

Perhaps it is of more value to infuriate philosophers than to go along with them.
WALLACE STEVENS

The philosopher proves that the philosopher exists. The poet merely enjoys existence.
WALLACE STEVENS

Everything is complicated; if that were not so, life and poetry and everything else would be a bore.
WALLACE STEVENS

Poetry has to be something more than a conception of the mind. It has to be a revelation of nature. ...
WALLACE STEVENS

I can't make head or tail of Life. Love is a fine thing, Art is a fine thing, Nature is a fine thing...
WALLACE STEVENS

When people are lonely they stoop to any companionship.
LEW WALLACE

How has the human spirit ever survived the terrific literature with which it has had to contend?
WALLACE STEVENS

As life grows more terrible, its literature grows more terrible.
WALLACE STEVENS

Civilization must be destroyed. The hairy saints of the North have earned this crumb by their compla...
WALLACE STEVENS

The imagination is man's power over nature.
WALLACE STEVENS

Hope, the patent medicine for disease, disaster, sin.
WALLACE RICE

If some really acute observer made as much of egotism as Freud has made of sex, people would forget ...
WALLACE STEVENS

One is never more on trial than in the moment of excessive good fortune.
LEW WALLACE

The day of the sun is like the day of a king. It is a promenade in the morning, a sitting on the thr...
WALLACE STEVENS

Among twenty snowy mountains,
The only moving thing
Was the eye of the blackbird.
WALLACE STEVENS

How full of trifles everything is! It is only one's thoughts that fill a room with something more th...
WALLACE STEVENS

Union of the weakest develops strength not wisdom. Can all men, together, avenge one of the leaves t...
WALLACE STEVENS

I thought how utterly we have forsaken the Earth, in the sense of excluding it from our thoughts. Th...
WALLACE STEVENS

All the great things have been denied and we live in an intricacy of new and local mythologies, poli...
WALLACE STEVENS

The genuine artist is never true to life. He sees what is real, but not as we are normally aware of ...
WALLACE STEVENS

What our eyes behold may well be the text of life but one's meditations on the text and the disclosu...
WALLACE STEVENS

Accuracy of observation is the equivalent of accuracy of thinking.
WALLACE STEVENS

To be one's self, and unafraid whether right or wrong, is more admirable than the easy cowardice of ...
IRVING WALLACE

If sex were all, then every trembling hand
Could make us squeak, like dolls, the wished-for words...
WALLACE STEVENS

I know what I should love to do--to build a study; to write, and to think of nothing else. I want to...
LEW WALLACE

Any tax over 12-14% -- regardless of the base -- will corrupt enough taxpayers to render the system ...
STEVE WALLACE

Style is not something applied. It is something that permeates. It is of the nature of that in which...
WALLACE STEVENS

[I]t is dangerous for a bride to be apologetic about her husband.
WALLACE STEGNER

The summer night is like a perfection of thought.
WALLACE STEVENS

Everybody wants to do 'The View.' It's this iconic show. When I worked at the White Hous...
NICOLLE WALLACE

To Edward, I cannot be a traitor, for I owe him no allegiance; he is not my sovereign; he never rece...
WILLIAM WALLACE

When I went to Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, what I really wanted to be was a radio announcer.
MIKE WALLACE

It would be absurd for me to diagnose Sarah Palin with a sprained ankle, let alone any sort of menta...
NICOLLE WALLACE

To be one's self, and unafraid whether right or wrong, is more admirable than the easy cowardice...
IRVING WALLACE

I used to have acne when I was a kid growing up. You can imagine how serious that was in making you ...
MIKE WALLACE

Accuracy of observation is the equivalent of accuracy of thinking.
WALLACE STEVENS

A life in politics is for people who know themselves and know where their own line is between loyalt...
NICOLLE WALLACE

I didn't have a special secret about Sarah Palin. I just had a feeling and some concerns. Her bl...
NICOLLE WALLACE

We must not be misled by left-wing incompetent news media that, day after day, feed us a diet of fan...
GEORGE WALLACE

There are few things that weigh on a person’s ability to grow and thrive more than insecurity. One...
CARLOS WALLACE

People spend money they don’t have on clothes and accessories they don’t need to fill a void. No...
CARLOS WALLACE

Insecurity is a powerful enemy. It forces people to use make-up, plastic surgery, collagen injection...
CARLOS WALLACE

Happiness will never flourish in a life bereft of optimism.
CARLOS WALLACE

I grew up. I began to think the United States had some problems that really required the help of art...
WALLACE SHAWN

This dullness of vision regarding the importance of the general welfare to the individual is the measure of the failure of our schools and churches to teach the spiritual significance of genuine democracy.

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This dullness of vision regarding the importance of the general welfare to the individual is the measure of the failure of our schools and churches to teach the spiritual significance of genuine democracy.

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