Quotes by Broun, Heywood

"Just as every conviction begins as a whim so does every emancipator serve his apprenticeship as a crank. A fanatic is a great leader who is just entering the room."

Broun, Heywood on fanatics and fanaticism   

"The urge to gamble is so universal and its practice so pleasurable that I assume it must be evil."

Broun, Heywood on gambling   

"Hell is paved with great granite blocks hewn from the hearts of those who said, I can do no other."

Broun, Heywood on hell   

"Write the news as if your very life depended on it. It does!"

Broun, Heywood on journalism and journalists   

"The tragedy of life is not that a man loses, but that he almost wins."

Broun, Heywood on life
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"The most prolific period of pessimism comes at twenty-one or thereabouts, when the first attempt is made to translate dreams into reality."

Broun, Heywood on pessimism
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"A liberal is a man who leaves a room when the fight begins."

Broun, Heywood on politics   

"Nobody talks so constantly about God as those who insist that there is no God."

Broun, Heywood on atheism
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"Except that right side up is best, there is not much to learn about holding a baby. There are one hundred and fifty-two distinctly different ways --and all are right! At least all will do."

Broun, Heywood on babies   

"Posterity is as likely to be wrong as anybody else."

Broun, Heywood on posterity   

"Brotherhood is not just a Bible word. Out of comradeship can come and will come the happy life for all."

Broun, Heywood on brotherhood   

"Men are blind in their own cause."

Broun, Heywood on causes   

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"Sweat is the cologne of accomplishment."

Broun, Heywood on sweat
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"A technical objection is the first refuge of a scoundrel."

Broun, Heywood on committees and meetings