I said there was a society of men among us, bred up from their youth in the art of proving by words multiplied for the purpose, that white is black, and black is white, according as they are paid. To this society all the rest of the people are as slaves.

- Jonathan Swift -

Too late! Dead!
Dementia.

It is dangerous to be right when
the government is wrong.

- Voltaire -

Too late! Dead!
Denied religious burial,
body stolen by religious
rightists and dumped
in garbage heap.

The slightest acquaintance with history shows that powerful republics are
the most warlike and
unscrupulous of nations.

- Ambrose Bierce -

Too late! Gone!

Mysteriously disappeared.

Most people are bothered by those passages of Scripture they do not understand, but the passages that bother me are those I do understand.

- Mark Twain -

Too late! Dead!

Hounded by creditors.