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I regard the principle of conscription of life as a flat contradiction of all our cherished ideals of individual freedom, democratic liberty and Christian teaching. ↗

— Roger Nash Baldwin

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A platitude is simply a truth repeated till people get tired of hearing it. ↗

— Stanley Baldwin

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The South is very beautiful but its beauty makes one sad because the lives that people live here, and have lived here, are so ugly. ↗

— James Baldwin

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It is only in his music, which Americans are able to admire because a protective sentimentality limits their understanding of it, that the Negro in America has been able to tell his story. ↗

— James Baldwin

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The making of an American begins at the point where he himself rejects all other ties, any other history, and himself adopts the vesture of his adopted land. ↗

— James Baldwin

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The responsibility of a writer is to excavate the experience of the people who produced him. ↗

— James Baldwin

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Dishonesty is so grasping it would deceive God himself, were it possible. ↗

— George Bancroft

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I am not struck so much by the diversity of testimony as by the many-sidedness of truth. ↗

— Stanley Baldwin

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The bomber will always get through. The only defense is in offense, which means that you have to kill more women and children more quickly that the enemy if you want to save yourselves. ↗

— Stanley Baldwin

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The only defense is offense, which means that you have to kill more women and children more quickly than the enemy if you wish to save yourselves. ↗

— Stanley Baldwin

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