Heywood Hale Broun (1918–2001) was an American author, sportswriter, commentator and actor. He was born and reared in New York City, the son of writer and activist Ruth Hale and newspaper columnist Heywood Broun.
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We must bring ourselves to realize that it is necessary to support free speech for the things we hate in order to ensure it for the things in which we believe with all our heart.
—Heywood Hale Broun
Nobody talks so constantly about God as those who insist that there is no God.
—Heywood Hale Broun
Topics: Atheism
Free speech is about as good as cause as the world has ever known. But, like the poor, it is always with us and gets shoved aside in favour of things which seem at some given moment more vital.
—Heywood Hale Broun
Sweat is the cologne of accomplishment.
—Heywood Hale Broun
Topics: Work
The ability to make love frivolously is the chief characteristic which distinguishes human beings from the beasts.
—Heywood Hale Broun
Topics: Sex, Ability
In a certain sense every creative person is a reformer, but this does not mean that he must be in his work a propagandist for good roads, shorter hours, and a low tariff. All these are excellent things, but they need not be the concern of the artist.
—Heywood Hale Broun
Topics: The Artist
The most prolific period of pessimism comes at twenty-one or thereabouts, when the first attempt is made to translate dreams into reality.
—Heywood Hale Broun
Topics: Pessimism
A liberal is a man who leaves the room when the fight starts.
—Heywood Hale Broun
Topics: Politicians, Fighting, Politics
Posterity is as likely to be wrong as anybody else.
—Heywood Hale Broun
Topics: Posterity
A technical objection is the first refuge of a scoundrel.
—Heywood Hale Broun
Topics: Committees
The tragedy of life is not that man loses,
but that he almost wins.
—Heywood Hale Broun
Topics: Perseverance, Life and Living, Endurance, Life, Virtue, Vice, Resolve
Brotherhood is not just a Bible word. Out of comradeship can come and will come the happy life for all.
—Heywood Hale Broun
Write the news as if your very life depended on it. It does!
—Heywood Hale Broun
Topics: Journalism, Journalists
Just as every conviction begins as a whim so does every emancipator serve his apprenticeship as a crank. A fanatic is a great leader who is just entering the room.
—Heywood Hale Broun
Topics: Fanaticism
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