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Kurt Vonnegut:

What troubles me most about my lovely country is that its children are seldom taught that American freedom will vanish, if, when they grow up, and in the exercise of their duties as citizens, they insist that our courts and policemen and prisons be guided by divine or natural law.

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October 4, 2025 | Posted by: Frank | Posted in: QOTD |

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Naomi Klein:

The truly powerful feed ideology to the masses like fast food while they dine on the most rarified delicacy of all: impunity.

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October 3, 2025 | Posted by: Frank | Posted in: QOTD |

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Rex Stout:

There’s no point in being rude when you can end a conversation quicker by being polite.

Stout, Rex, Plot It Yourself (New York: Bantam, 1960) p. 77.

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October 2, 2025 | Posted by: Frank | Posted in: QOTD |

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Jeffrey Toobin:

. . . a big part of the American Revolution was there would be no Church of England the way there was in England. There was a specific attempt not to have an established church.

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October 1, 2025 | Posted by: Frank | Posted in: QOTD |

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Missy Gold, in the voice of Katherine ‘Katie’ Olivia Gatling, and Robert Guillaume, in the voice of Benson DuBois:

Katie: You know, it’s not easy being a concerned citizen.

Benson: That’s why there are so few of them.

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September 30, 2025 | Posted by: Frank | Posted in: QOTD |

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Harlan Ellison:

You are not entitled to your opinion. You are entitled to your informed opinion. No one is entitled to be ignorant.

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September 29, 2025 | Posted by: Frank | Posted in: QOTD |

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H. G. Wells:

History is a race between education and catastrophe.

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September 28, 2025 | Posted by: Frank | Posted in: QOTD |

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Samuel Johnson:

Slavery is now no where more patiently endured, than in countries once inhabited by the zealots of liberty.

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September 27, 2025 | Posted by: Frank | Posted in: QOTD |

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Richard Dawkins:

Just because science can’t in practice explain things like the love that motivates a poet to write a sonnet, that doesn’t mean that religion can. It’s a simple and logical fallacy to say, “If science can’t do something, therefore religion can.”

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September 26, 2025 | Posted by: Frank | Posted in: QOTD |

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John Stuart Mill:

How can great minds be produced in a country where the test of a great mind is agreeing in the opinions of small minds?

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September 25, 2025 | Posted by: Frank | Posted in: QOTD |

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Robert Guillaume, in the voice of Benson DuBois:

Excuses that aren’t true are called lies.

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September 24, 2025 | Posted by: Frank | Posted in: QOTD |

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Hyman G. Rickover:

A free society can survive only through men and women of integrity.

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September 23, 2025 | Posted by: Frank | Posted in: QOTD |

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Voltaire:

One always speaks badly when one has nothing to say.

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September 22, 2025 | Posted by: Frank | Posted in: QOTD |

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Cory Doctorow:

It is a mistake to let aesthetics drive your rational decision making.

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September 21, 2025 | Posted by: Frank | Posted in: QOTD |

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Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach:

We are so vain that we value the opinion even of those whose opinions we find worthless.

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September 20, 2025 | Posted by: Frank | Posted in: QOTD |

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Benvenuto Cellini:

When the poor give to the rich, the devil laughs.

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September 19, 2025 | Posted by: Frank | Posted in: QOTD |

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Graham Greene:

Heresy is only another word for freedom of thought.

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September 18, 2025 | Posted by: Frank | Posted in: QOTD |

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Henry A. Wallace:

With a fascist the problem is never how best to present the truth to the public but how best to use the news to deceive the public.

Q. E. D.

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September 17, 2025 | Posted by: Frank | Posted in: QOTD |

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Robert Guillaume, in the voice of Benson DuBois:

You are not the first to abuse authority, Senator, and you certainly won’t be the last. That’s why they were so careful with the Constitution, so that it would work in spite of people like you.

Afterthought:

The Founders were leery of parties, which they referred to as “factions,” which leads to the question:

What happens when an entire faction chooses to ignore the Constitution?

Unfortunately, it looks as if we are finding out.

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September 16, 2025 | Posted by: Frank | Posted in: QOTD |

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Samuel Adams:

How strangely will the Tools of a Tyrant pervert the plain Meaning of Words!

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September 15, 2025 | Posted by: Frank | Posted in: QOTD |
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