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Arlo Guthrie:

There’s only one God. Call him whatever you want.

Voltaire, from Mr. Feastingonroadkill (who illustrated it with a portrait of The Donald):

“Anyone who has the power to make you believe absurdities has the power to make you commit injustices.”

Dean Rusk:

The usual cause of evil in the world is that at any given time half the people in the world are awake.

William O. Douglas:

The liberties of none are safe unless the liberties of all are protected.

The Duke of Wellington, from the Quotemaster (subscribe here):

Wise people learn when they can; fools learn when they must.

G. M. Trevelyan:

Education… has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.

Marcus Tullius Cicero:

According to the law of nature it is only fair that no one should become richer through damages and injuries suffered by another.blockquote>

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Jay Leno, from the Quotemaster (subscribe here):

Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day.

Teach a man to fish and he will eat for a lifetime.

Teach a man to create an artificial shortage of fish and he will eat steak.

Lenny Bruce:

Every day people are straying away from the church and going back to God.

Peter Finley Dunne:

A fanatic is a man that does what he thinks the Lord would do if He knew the facts of the case.

William J. Brennan, from the Quotemaster (subscribe here):

Law cannot stand aside from the social changes around it.

Josh Billings (Henry Wheeler Shaw), from the Quotemaster (subscribe here):

As scarce as truth is, the supply has always been in excess of the demand.

Ernie Kovacs:

Television: A medium. So called because it’s neither rare nor well done.

Robert Heilbroner:

The cure for capitalism’s failing would require that a government would have to rise above the interests of one class alone.

Howard Zinn:

If those in charge of our society – politicians, corporate executives, and owners of press and television – can dominate our ideas, they will be secure in their power. They will not need soldiers patrolling the streets. We will control ourselves.

Anatole France, from the Quotemaster (subscribe here):

Of all the ways of defining man, the worst is the one which makes him out to be a rational animal.

Thomas Szasz, from the Quotemaster (subscribe here):

When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him.

Thomas Jefferson, from the Quotemaster (subscribe here):

Whenever a man has cast a longing eye on offices, a rottenness begins in his conduct.

Bill Veeck:

Look, we play the Star Spangled Banner before every game. You want us to pay income taxes, too?

Dick Gregory:

I wouldn’t mind paying taxes – if I knew they were going to a friendly country.