society
“There are no second acts in American lives.”
“There are only the pursued, the pursuing, the busy and the tired.”
“I hope she'll be a fool—that's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool.”
“Good fences make good neighbors.”
“We must, indeed, all hang together or, most assuredly, we shall all hang separately.”
“Guests, like fish, begin to smell after three days.”
“The middle of the road is all of the usable surface. The extremes, right and left, are in the gutters.”
“Farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil, and you're a thousand miles from the corn field.”
“If you want total security, go to prison. There you're fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking... is freedom.”
“What do we live for, if not to make life less difficult to each other?”
“From fanaticism to barbarism is only one step.”
“The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color-line.”
“All for one and one for all.”
“Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob, and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe.”
“Any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind.”
“No man is an island, entire of itself;”
“No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of it to anyone else.”
“Tell me what company thou keepest, and I will tell thee what thou art.”
“This is a War of the Unknown Warrior; but let all strive without failing in faith or in duty.”
“The secret of a great success for which you are at a loss to account is a crime that has never been found out, because it was properly executed.”