23 Quotes by Sidney Buchman

Liberty is too precious to be buried in books. Men should hold it up in front of them every single day of their lives and say, 'I'm free'.

I wouldn't give you two cents for all your fancy rules if behind them they didn't have a little bit of plain ordinary everyday kindness, and a little looking out for the other fellow, too.

How DARE you and the rest of your barbarians set fire to my library? Play conqueror all you want, Mighty Caesar! Rape, murder, pillage thousands, even millions of human beings! But neither you nor any other barbarian has the right to destroy one human thought!

If there were no mystery left to explore life would get rather dull, wouldn't it?

I told you, the dopes are gonna inherit the earth anyway.

Boys forget what their country means by just reading "the land of the free" in history books. Then they get to be men, they forgeteven more. Liberty's too precious a thing to be buried in books.

If there were no mystery left to explore life would get rather dull, wouldn’t it?

Boys forget what their country means by just reading “the land of the free” in history books. Then they get to be men, they forgeteven more. Liberty’s too precious a thing to be buried in books.

We in America were worried about many problems dealing with economic inequality and political inequality. The Communist Party seemed to be the only political force, both concerned and willing, to take action to stop the threat of fascism abroad and to work for economic and political reform in this country.