That which distinguishes this ...

That which distinguishes this day from all others is that then both orators and artillerymen shoot blank cartridges.
That which distinguishes this day from all others is that then both orators and artillerymen shoot blank cartridges.
 John Burroughs

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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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The smallest deed is better than the greatest intention.
 John Burroughs
Wisdom cannot come by railroad or automobile or airplane or be hurried up by telegraph or telephone.
 John Burroughs
The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity is where you are.
 John Burroughs
The type of mind of Whitman's, which seldom or never emerges as a mere mentality, an independent thinking and knowing faculty, but always as a personality, always as a complete human entity, never can expound itself, because its operations are synthetic and not analytic; its mainspring is love and not mere knowledge.
 John Burroughs
Some men are like nails, very easily drawn; others however are more like rivets never drawn at all.
 John Burroughs