Drinking

I have always claimed Americans didn't want a drink as bad as they wanted the right to take a drink if they did happen to want one.  ~Will Rogers

Book Burning

Wherever they burn books they will also, in the end, burn human beings.  ~Heinrich Heine, Almansor, 1823

Censorship

The only valid censorship of ideas is the right of people not to listen.  ~Tommy Smothers

Reforming the world?

We cannot reform the world.... Uncle Sugar is as dangerous a role for us to play as Uncle Shylock.  ~John F. Kennedy