Sell the people torches and pitchforks, which they promptly use to stab and char you. As they say, sell them shovels in a gold rush.

Great quote, gotta keep that one in pocket for when this “hypocrisy” is pointed out every few days

I am the walrus?

I think the earliest documented version of this quote (1955 October 31, The Commonwealth: Official Journal of the Commonwealth Club of California) is more intriguing:

Lenin wrote, “When it comes time to hang the capitalists, they will vie with each other for the rope contract.”

—Major George Racey Jordan