The average citizen expresses pride in t... by Harry Allen Overstreet | We Heart Quotes

The average citizen expresses pride in the American Bill of Rights and then seeks to protect his real estate by restrictive covenants.

- Harry Allen Overstreet

Other quotes by Harry Allen Overstreet

BOOKSIf minds are truly alive they will seek out books, for books are the human race recounting its memorable experiences, confronting its problems, searching for solutions, drawing the blueprints of its futures. To read books is one way of growing along with one’s fellows-in-growth.

- Harry Allen Overstreet

Action springs out of what we fundamentally desire.

- Harry Allen Overstreet

Sorrow, gladness, yearning, hope, and love belong to all of us, in all times and in all places. Music is the only means whereby we feel these emotions in their universality.

- Harry Allen Overstreet

The secret of all true persuasion is to induce the person to persuade himself.

- Harry Allen Overstreet

The happiest thing that can be said about democracy is that it is one of the few systems that has been willing to risk a long period of confusion and mixed purposes for the sake of giving man a chance to grow up in mind and responsibility.

- Harry Allen Overstreet

A person remains immature, whatever his age, as long as he thinks of himself as an exception to the human race.

- Harry Allen Overstreet

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