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Charles Evans Hughes, from the Quotemaster (subscribe here):

The most ominous spirit of our times, as it seems to me, is the indication of the growth of an intolerent spirit

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Benjamin Disraeli:

To tax the community for the advantage of a class is not protection: it is plunder.

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Gore Vidal:

The genius of our ruling class is that it has kept a majority of the people from ever questioning the inequity of a system where most people drudge along, paying heavy taxes for which they get nothing in return.

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Frederick Douglass:

Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe.

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Voltaire:

In general, the art of government consists of taking as much money as possible from one class of citizens to give to another.

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Plato:

The community which has neither poverty nor riches will always have the noblest principles.

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Jose Saramago:

People live with the illusion that we have a democratic system, but it’s only the outward form of one. In reality we live in a plutocracy, a government of the rich.

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John Locke:

All wealth is the product of labor.

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Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Certitude is not the test of certainty.

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Will Rogers:

If Stupidity got us into this mess, then why can’t it get us out?

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Francis Bacon:

Fame is like a river, that beareth up things light and swollen, and drowns things weighty and solid.

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Samuel Johnson:

All the arguments which are brought to represent poverty as no evil show it evidently to be a great evil.

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Dwight D. Eisenhower:

I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity.

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Napoleon Hill, from the Quotemaster (subscribe here):

The path of least resistance makes all rivers, and some men, crooked.

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Mark Twain:

The old saw says, “Let a sleeping dog lie.” Right. . . . Still, when there is so much at stake, it is better to get a newspaper to do it.

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Ted Williams:

Baseball is the only field of endeavor where a man can succeed three times out of ten and be considered a good performer.

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Rex Stout:

There are two kinds of statistics, the kind you look up and the kind you make up.

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Andrew Jackson:

I have always been afraid of banks.

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Franklin P. Adams:

The trouble with this country is that there are too many politicians who believe, with a conviction based on experience, that you can fool all of the people all of the time.

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David Brinkley:

Washington, D.C. is a city filled with people who believe they are important.

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