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Loren Cunningham:

Disagreements don’t cause disunity, a lack of forgiveness does.

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Lillian Hellman:

Cynicism is an unpleasant way of saying the truth.

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E. B. White:

I am a member of a party of one, and I live in an age of fear.

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Margery Allingham:

To be free takes a lot of time and trouble.

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Cicero:

Let the welfare of the people be the ultimate law.

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Thomas Babington Macaulay:

The object of oratory alone is not truth, but persuasion.

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Oscar Wilde:

A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.

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Robert Reich:

Tyrants view educated citizens as their greatest enemy. Slaveholders stopped the enslaved from learning to read. Nazis burned books. Dictators censor media. That’s why Donald Trump is attacking education, science, museums and the arts. Ignorance is the handmaiden of tyranny.

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Hy Averback:

Life is a dangerous thing. Very few of us get out of it alive.

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Maureen O’Hara:

There is nothing worse than having your personal problems become somebody else’s entertainment.

I wonder what she would say about “social” media.

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Daniel Ellsberg:

If monarchy is corrupting – and it is – wait till you see what overt empire does to us.

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Patrick Henry:

The liberties of a people never were, nor ever will be, secure, when the transactions of their rulers may be concealed from them.

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Kent Nerburn:

Do not fall prey to the false belief that mastery and domination are synonymous with manliness.

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Gerard Heinz, in the voice of Hortal:

These people do not need reasons. It’s a dictatorship. Men are imprisoned and shot at the President’s whim.

Aside:

He left out the part about sending them to El Salvadoran gulags.

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Johann Most:

Whoever looks at America will see: the ship is powered by stupidity, corruption, or prejudice.

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John Gunther:

There are no generalizations in American politics that vested selfishness cannot cut through.

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Christopher Bond:

History’s lesson is to make the most of reform opportunities when they arise because they do not arise often and they do not last long.

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P. D. James:

Unless the young can use language effectively, both to express their own minds and to understand the minds of others, it is difficult to see how we can have a vigorous democracy in which ideas and policies can be intelligently presented, considered and criticised or achieve that understanding with other countries which nations enjoy through access to each other’s language and literature.

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Lucius Annaeus Seneca:

Poverty wants some, luxury many, and avarice all things.

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John Hickenlooper:

Isolationism is not leadership.

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