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Zora Neal Hurston

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It is no longer profitable, with few exceptions, to ask people what they think, for you will be told what they wish, instead.
Zora Neal Hurston, Dust Tracks on a Road (1942), p. 257, as quoted by Don Boudreaux at Cafe Hayek.

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President Abraham Lincoln, according to Gore Vidal’s historical novel, Lincoln, addressing his Secretary of Treasury’s “personal desire to have printed on […] bank notes […] ‘In God we Trust’”:

“Well,” said Lincoln, getting to his feet, “if you are going to put a Biblical tag on the greenback, I would suggest that of Peter and John: ‘Silver and gold have I none; but such as I have give I thee.’”
Gore Vidal, Lincoln (1984), chapter six.

— Abe Lincoln