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Posterity is as likely to be wrong as anybody else.
-Heywood Broun, Sitting on the World (1924)
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Artist, The
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In a certain sense every creative person is a reformer, but this does not mean that he must be in his work a propagandist for good roads, shorter hours, and a low tariff. All these are excellent things, but they need not be the concern of the artist.
-Heywood Broun, "New York World", August 26, 1926
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Atheism
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Nobody talks so constantly about God as those who insist that there is no God.
-Heywood Broun
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Baby, Babies
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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.
-Heywood Broun
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Committee
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A technical objection is the first refuge of a scoundrel.
-Heywood Broun
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Fanaticism
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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.
-Heywood Broun
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Fellowship
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Brotherhood is not just a Bible word. Out of comradeship can come and will come the happy life for all.
-Heywood Broun
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Gambling (Gaming)
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The urge to gamble is so universal and its practice so pleasurable that I assume it must be evil.
-Heywood Broun
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Hell
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Hell is paved with great granite blocks hewn from the hearts of those who said, I can do no other.
-Heywood Broun
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Journalism
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Write the news as if your very life depended on it. It does!
-Heywood Broun
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Life
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The tragedy of life is not that a man loses, but that he almost wins.
-Heywood Broun
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Pessimism
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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.
-Heywood Broun
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Politics
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A liberal is a man who leaves a room when the fight begins.
-Heywood Broun
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Reason
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Men are blind in their own cause.
-Heywood Broun
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Speech (freedom of)
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Free speech is about as good as cause as the world has ever known. But, like the poor, it is always with us and gets shoved aside in favour of things which seem at some given moment more vital.
-Heywood Broun, The Miracle of Debs, "New York World", October 23, 1926
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We must bring ourselves to realize that it is necessary to support free speech for the things we hate in order to ensure it for the things in which we believe with all our heart.
-Heywood Broun, "New York World", January 26, 1923
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Work
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Sweat is the cologne of accomplishment.
-Heywood Broun
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Books by and about Heywood Broun