America is a passionate idea ...

America is a passionate idea or it is nothing. America is a human brotherhood or it is chaos.
America is a passionate idea or it is nothing. America is a human brotherhood or it is chaos.
 Max Lerner

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All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.
I know but one freedom and that is the freedom of the mind.
 Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err.
The amount of happiness that you have depends on the amount of freedom you have in your heart.
 Thích Nhất Hạnh
Without freedom of thought, there can be no such thing as wisdom - and no such thing as public liberty without freedom of speech.

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In our culture we make heroes of the men who sit on top of a heap of money, and we pay attention not only to what they say in their field of competence, but to their wisdom on every other question in the world.
 Max Lerner
When you choose the lesser of two evils, always remember that it is still an evil.
 Max Lerner
The turning point in the process of growing up is when you discover the core of strength within you that survives all hurt.
 Max Lerner
The fact is that life has become a sweepstake. Millions of people who have lost the sense of being able to make anything of the collective effort of shaping their economic society, now expect fortune to descend like pie from the sky.
 Max Lerner
The crime of book purging is that it involves a rejection of the word. For the word is never absolute truth, but only man's frail and human effort to approach the truth. To reject the word is to reject the human search.
 Max Lerner