“Fig leaves of democratic procedure to hide the nakedness of Stalinist dictatorship.”

On the Correct Handling of Contradiction (1957)

Unidentified fragment 545 K (K = T. Kock, Comicorum Atticorum Fragmenta, 3 vols. (Leipzig 1880/8)), as translated in ‪Menander: The Principal Fragments‬‎ (1921) by Francis Greenleaf Allinson.

2010s, "Heaven is Helping Us": More from the Nationalist Left (August 2018)
Context: To assume that the two Korean administrations do not already see each other as confederates, and behave accordingly, albeit discreetly, is like assuming that a man and woman planning a marriage are not yet having sex. When we ask for Moon’s help in getting the other half of the peninsula to denuclearize, we are in effect asking this fervent nationalist to help remove the future guarantor of a unified Korea’s security and autonomy. Why should he comply? The only remaining point of the US-ROK alliance is to ease the transition to a confederation — which would obviate that alliance altogether. The recent news of South Korean violations of sanctions (and of a presidential award just given to the main importer of North Korean coal) is merely illustrative. It’s trivial in comparison to the basic truth staring us in the face: No true liberal-democratic ally of the United States would think of leaguing up with an anti-American dictatorship, let alone one still in the thrall of a personality cult.

Source: The Bell Jar (1963), Ch.7

Johnson's Ghost, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

Quoted in Time magazine article Taxes: Enter Balance Due Here http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,829745,00.html, 1 February 1963 http://books.google.com/books?id=YufVAAAAMAAJ&q=%22There+is+one+difference+between+a+tax+collector+and+a+taxidermist+the+taxidermist+leaves+the+hide%22&pg=PA13#v=onepage

Monsignor Quixote (1982)

Put the tax cut in a lock box
2002-02-02
Townhall
http://townhall.com/columnists/anncoulter/2002/02/21/put_the_tax_cut_in_a_lock_box/page/full
2002