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If our democracy is to flourish, it must have criticism; if our government is to function it must have dissent.


Henry Commager

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AARON HENRY The past few years you could see something just wasn't adding up,
AARON HENRY There has been a reevaluation of our slave philosophy that permitted us to be satisfied with the lef...
AARON HENRY When as a child I laughed and wept, time crept. When as a youth I waxed more bold, time strolled. Wh...
HENRY TWELLS If we want to boost border security, we have to help law enforcement agencies beef up their resource...
HENRY CUELLAR Who hates the Jews more than the Jew?
HENRY MILLER Until it is kindled by a spirit as flamingly alive as the one which gave it birth a book is dead to ...
HENRY MILLER A book is a part of life, a manifestation of life, just as much as a tree or a horse or a star. It o...
HENRY MILLER All my good reading, you might say, was done in the toilet. There are passages in Ulysses which can ...
HENRY MILLER A book is not only a friend, it makes friends for you. When you have possessed a book with mind and ...
HENRY MILLER I believe that today more than ever a book should be sought after even if it has only one great page...
HENRY MILLER No matter how vast, how total, the failure of man here on earth, the work of man will be resumed els...
HENRY MILLER