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  • #1
    “When fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross.”
    James Waterman Wise

  • #2
    H.L. Mencken
    “As democracy is perfected, the office of president represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. 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.”
    H.L. Mencken, On Politics: A Carnival of Buncombe

  • #3
    Aldous Huxley
    “Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.”
    Aldous Huxley, Complete Essays, Vol. II: 1926-1929

  • #4
    Mahatma Gandhi
    “When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love have always won. There have been tyrants and murderers, and for a time, they can seem invincible, but in the end, they always fall. Think of it--always.”
    Mahatma Gandhi

  • #5
    George W. Bush
    “Our country must abandon all the habits of racism because we cannot carry the message of freedom and the baggage of bigotry at the same time.”
    George W. Bush

  • #6
    Abigail Adams
    “If particular care and attention is not paid to the ladies, we are determined to foment a rebellion, and will not hold ourselves bound by any laws in which we have no voice or representation.”
    Abigail Adams, The Letters of John and Abigail Adams

  • #7
    Mark Twain
    “If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.”
    Mark Twain

  • #8
    Harry Truman
    “I never did give them hell. I just told the truth, and they thought it was hell.”
    Harry S. Truman

  • #9
    John Kennedy Toole
    “...When my brain begins to reel from my literary labors, I make an occassional cheese dip.
    ― John Kennedy Toole, A Confederacy of Dunces”
    John Kennedy Toole, A Confederacy of Dunces
    tags: humor

  • #10
    Virginia Woolf
    “When the Day of Judgment dawns and people, great and small, come marching in to receive their heavenly rewards, the Almighty will gaze upon the mere bookworms and say to Peter, “Look, these need no reward. We have nothing to give them. They have loved reading.”
    Virginia Woolf



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