John

“There are men and women so lonely they believe God, too, is lonely.”
― Christopher Burns, The Seashell Anthology of Great Poetry

“Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.”
― Voltaire

“There is not one of the peoples or provinces that constituted the Empire of the Habsburgs to whom gaining their independence has not brought the tortures which ancient poets and theologians had reserved for the damned.”
― Winston S. Churchill, The Gathering Storm, 1948

“Whenever you hear a prominent American called a ‘Fascist,’” Hearst declared, “you can usually make up your mind that the man is simply a LOYAL CITIZEN WHO STANDS UP FOR AMERICANISM.” Beginning in November 1934, Hearst sent reporters disguised as students into college classrooms, to trap teachers in unconventional comments. Nobody wanted to change the American economic system, he said, except for “a few incurable malcontents, a few sapheaded college boys, and a few unbalanced college professors.”
― William Manchester, The Glory and the Dream: A Narrative History of America, 1932-1972