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Mark Twain:

Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it.

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Alexis de Tocqueville:

“The will of the nation” is one of those expressions which have been most profusely abused by the wily and the despotic of every age.

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sundialsvcs, in a post at Linux Questions:

There is no “I” in “AI”!

Aside:

I have been a member of LQ for almost two decades. In my opinion, it is the friendliest Linux place on the inner webs.

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William Ralph Inge:

Patriotism varies, from a noble devotion to a moral lunacy.

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Hannah Arendt:

The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil.

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H. L. Mencken:

On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart’s desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.

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Roger Bacon:

To ask the proper question is half of knowing.

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Livy:

Men are only too clever at shifting blame from their own shoulders to those of others.

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Maurice Davis:

We know, and we must never forget, that every path leads somewhere. The path of segregation leads to lynching. The path of anti-Semitism leads to Auschwitz. The path of cults leads to Jonestown. We ignore this fact at our peril.

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Hugh Gaitskell:

Fascism has become the last defence of a crumbling economic system. It is the last bulwark of Capitalism.

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Eleanor Bron:

Both men and women are fallible. The difference is, women know it.

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Roger Ebert:

Doing research on the Web is like using a library assembled piecemeal by pack rats and vandalized nightly.

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James Randi:

Sir, there is a distinct difference between having an open mind and having a hole in your head from which your brain leaks out.

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Bob Cesca:

Libertarianism is Scientology for politics.

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Marriner Stoddard Eccles:

The United States economy is like a poker game where the chips have become concentrated in fewer and fewer hands, and where the other fellows can stay in the game only by borrowing. When their credit runs out the game will stop.

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Don Marquis:

If you make people think they’re thinking, they’ll love you; but if you really make them think, they’ll hate you.

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Dorothy L. Sayers:

Of course there’s truth in advertising. There’s yeast in bread, but you can’t make bread with yeast alone.

Sayers, Dorothy L., Murder Must Advertise, in a dual volume with The Five Red Herrings
(New York: Doubleday, issue date unspecified, first published 1933), p. 366.

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Shirley Temple Black:

Politicians are actors too, don’t you think?

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Hugh Kingsmill:

Charity may cover a multitude of sins, but success transmutes them into virtues.

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Guy de Maupassant:

Great minds that are healthy are never considered geniuses, while this sublime qualification is lavished on brains that are often inferior but are slightly touched by madness.

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