Quotes from authors passed in 1940
While photographs may not lie, liars may photograph.
Lewis Hine
How horrible, fantastic, incredible, it is that we should be digging trenches and trying on gas-masks here because of a quarrel in a faraway country between people of whom we know nothing.
Neville Chamberlain
Cut out all these exclamation points. An exclamation point is like laughing at your own joke.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
There is a limit to the application of democratic methods. You can inquire of all the passengers as to what type of car they like to ride in, but it is impossible to question them as to whether to apply the brakes when the train is at full speed and accident threatens.
Leon Trotsky
One does not lash hat lies at a distance. The foibles that we ridicule must at least be a little bit our own. Only then will the work be a part of our own flesh. The garden must be weeded.
Paul Klee
Shahrukh Khan 
John G. Diefenbaker 
Jose Rizal 
Gustav Stresemann 
Simon van der Meer 
Mario Batali 
Mel Tillis 
Paul Strand