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    Mark Twain
    “Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to reform (or pause and reflect).”
    Mark Twain

  • #2
    Markus Herz
    “Be careful about reading health books. Some fine day you'll die of a misprint.”
    Markus Herz

  • #3
    Mark Twain
    “Reader, suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.”
    Mark Twain

  • #4
    Mark Twain
    “Substitute 'damn' every time you're inclined to write 'very;' your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be.”
    Mark Twain

  • #5
    Mark Twain
    “God created war so that Americans would learn geography.”
    Mark Twain

  • #6
    Mark Twain
    “I was gratified to be able to answer promptly, and I did. I said I didn’t know.”
    Mark Twain

  • #7
    Mark Twain
    “Always do what is right. It will gratify half of mankind and astound the other.”
    Mark Twain

  • #8
    Mark Twain
    “If you don't read the newspaper, you're uninformed. If you read the newspaper, you're mis-informed.”
    Mark Twain

  • #9
    Mark Twain
    “Name the greatest of all inventors. Accident.”
    Mark Twain

  • #10
    Mark Twain
    “Education: the path from cocky ignorance to miserable uncertainty.”
    Mark Twain

  • #11
    Mark Twain
    “The secret to getting ahead is getting started.”
    Mark Twain

  • #12
    Mark Twain
    “Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please.”
    Mark Twain

  • #13
    Mark Twain
    “I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.”
    Mark Twain

  • #14
    Mark Twain
    “Of all the animals, man is the only one that is cruel. He is the only one that inflicts pain for the pleasure of doing it.”
    Mark Twain

  • #15
    Mark Twain
    “Always acknowledge a fault. This will throw those in authority off their guard and give you an opportunity to commit more.”
    Mark Twain

  • #16
    Mark Twain
    “It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.”
    Mark Twain

  • #17
    Mark Twain
    “Eat a live frog first thing in the morning and nothing worse will happen to you the rest of the day.”
    Mark Twain

  • #18
    Mark Twain
    “All right, then, I'll go to hell.”
    Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

  • #19
    Mark Twain
    “In the first place God made idiots. This was for practice. Then he made school boards.”
    Mark Twain, Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World

  • #20
    Mark Twain
    “It's better to keep your mouth shut and appear stupid than open it and remove all doubt”
    Mark Twain

  • #21
    Malcolm X
    “You're not to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or says it.”
    Malcolm X, By Any Means Necessary

  • #22
    Robert Orben
    “Illegal aliens have always been a problem in the United States. Ask any Indian.”
    Robert Orben

  • #23
    William S. Burroughs
    “A paranoid is someone who knows a little of what's going on. ”
    William S. Burroughs

  • #24
    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “The last thing I ever wanted was to be alive when the three most powerful people on the whole planet would be named Bush, Dick and Colon.”
    Kurt Vonnegut

  • #25
    “Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it whether it exists or not, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedy.”
    Ernest Benn

  • #26
    John Fitzgerald Kennedy
    “If by a "Liberal" they mean someone who looks ahead and not behind, someone who welcomes new ideas without rigid reactions, someone who cares about the welfare of the people-their health, their housing, their schools, their jobs, their civil rights and their civil liberties-someone who believes we can break through the stalemate and suspicions that grip us in our policies abroad, if that is what they mean by a "Liberal", then I'm proud to say I'm a "Liberal.”
    John F. Kennedy, Profiles in Courage

  • #27
    Gore Vidal
    “Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half.”
    Gore Vidal, Screening History

  • #28
    Ronald Reagan
    “I've always believed that a lot of the trouble in the world would disappear if we were talking to each other instead of about each other.”
    Ronald Reagan

  • #29
    Ronald Reagan
    “Since I came to the White House, I've gotten two hearing aids, had a colon operation, a prostate operation, skin cancer, and I've been shot...damn thing is, I've never felt better.”
    Ronald Reagan, Speaking My Mind: Selected Speeches

  • #30
    Ronald Reagan
    “America is, and always will be, a shining city on a hill.”
    Ronald Reagan



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