“King is probably one of three men of this century that I'll call heroic. A fantastic man as far as I'm concerned, for all that he did.”

“For surely a king is first a man. And so it must follow that a king does as all men do: the best he can.”

“Calvin: As far as I'm concerned, if something is so complicated that you can't explain it in 10 seconds, then it's probably not worth knowing anyway.
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“I esteem the modern error, That all goes by self-interest and the checking and balancing of greedy knaveries, and that in short, there is nothing divine whatever in the association of men, a still more despicable error, natural as it is to an unbelieving century, than that of a "divine right" in people called Kings. I say, Find me the true Konning, King, or Able-man, and he has a divine right over me.”

“I'm for the poor man — all poor men, black and white, they all gotta have a chance. They gotta have a home, a job, and a decent education for their children. 'Every man a king”

“The natural equality of all men I believe in, as far as rights are concerned.”

“As far as I'm concerned, the only difference between fact and what most people call fiction is about fifteen pages in the dictionary.”

“I'm gonna get one of those tracheotomies, so I can smoke two cigarettes at the same time! I'm gonna get nine tracheotomies, all around my neck, I'll be Tracheotomy Man! He can smoke a pack at a time, he's Tracheotomy Man!”

“Me? I'm the king of the twentieth century. I'm the bogeyman. The villain… The black sheep of the family.”

“There was an old bastard named Lenin
Who did two or three million men in.
That's a lot to have done in
But where he did one in
That old bastard Stalin did ten in.”