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Thomas Jefferson:

If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.

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Bill Vaughan:

If there is anything the nonconformist hates worse than a conformist, it’s another nonconformist who doesn’t conform to the prevailing standard of nonconformity.

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Lord Chesterfield:

Advice is seldom welcome, and those who need it the most, like it the least.

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Eric Ambler:

International business may conduct its operations with scraps of paper, but the ink it uses is human blood.

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Edward Everett:

Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army.

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Bill Vaughan:

A citizen of America will cross the ocean to fight for democracy, but won’t cross the street to vote in a national election.

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Ambrose Bierce, from the Quotemaster (subscribe here):

Speak when you are angry, and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.

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William Robertson Smith:

The land of a god corresponds with the land of his worshipers.

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Sarah Vowell:

In death, you get upgraded into a saint no matter how much people hated you in life.

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Molly Ivins:

You can’t ignore politics, no matter how much you’d like to.

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Diane Arbus:

Nothing is ever the same as they said it was.

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Lillian Hellman, from the Quotemaster (subscribe here):

Nobody outside of a baby carriage or a judge’s chamber believes in an unprejudiced point of view.

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Jawaharlal Nehru, from the Quotemaster (subscribe here):

You don’t change the course of history by turning the faces of portraits to the wall.

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Laurence J. Peter, from the Quotemaster (subscribe here):

The man who is always waving the flag usually waives what it stands for.

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George Carlin:

By and large, language is a tool for concealing the truth.

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David Herbert Lawrence:

Do not allow to slip away from you freedoms the people who came before you won with such hard knocks.

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Thomas Paine:

Belief in a cruel God makes a cruel man.

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Groucho Marx:

The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you’ve got it made.

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Elbert Hubbard:

Christianity supplies a Hell for the people who disagree with you and a Heaven for your friends.

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Dorothy L. Sayers, from the Quotemaster (subscribe here):

The great advantage about telling the truth is that nobody ever believes it.

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