Common sense isn't.
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| The President is merely the most important among a large number of public servants. He should be supported or opposed exactly to the degree which is warranted by his good conduct or bad conduct, his efficiency or inefficiency in rendering loyal, able, and disinterested service to the nation as a whole. Therefore it is absolutely necessary that there should be full liberty to tell the truth about his acts, and this means that it is exactly as necessary to blame him when he does wrong as to praise him when he does right. Any other attitude in an American citizen is both base and servile. To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public. Nothing but the truth should be spoken about him or any one else. But it is even more important to tell the truth, pleasant or unpleasant, about him than about any one else. |
| ~ THEODORE ROOSEVELT, “Lincoln and Free Speech,” The Great Adventure (vol. 19 of The Works of Theodore Roosevelt, national ed.), chapter 7, p. 289 (1926). ~ |
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| The government is us; we are the government, you and I. |
| ~ Theodore Roosevelt (1858–1919), U.S. Republican (later Progressive) politician, president. speech, Sept. 9, 1902, Asheville, N.C.. ~ |
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| Art is not a treasure in the past or an importation from another land, but part of the present life of all living and creating peoples. |
| ~ Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882–1945), U.S. president. The Wit and Wisdom of Franklin D. Roosevelt, On America, p. 15, eds. Peter and Helen Beilenson, Peter Pauper Press (1982). On the value of works of art. ~ |
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| Sublime tobacco! which from east to west Cheers the tar's labour or the Turkman's rest. |
| ~ Lord Byron, The Island. Canto ii. Stanza 19. ~ |
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| The silence that is in the starry sky. |
| ~ William Wordsworth, Ibid. ~ |
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| Second thoughts, they say, are best. |
| ~ John Dryden, The Spanish Friar. Act ii. Sc. 2. ~ |
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| Lady of the Mere, Sole-sitting by the shores of old romance. |
| ~ William Wordsworth, A narrow Girdle of rough Stones and Crags. ~ |
Common sense isn't.
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