"Be yourself and think for yourself; and while your conclusions may not be infallible they will be nearer right than the conclusions forced upon you by those who have a personal interest in keeping you in ignorance."
Elbert Hubbard was an American writer, publisher, and founder of the Roycroft artisan community in New York. He wrote the widely quoted essay A Message to Garcia and died in the sinking of the RMS Lusitania in 1915.