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> [There is nothing puzzling ... about America's gratuitously aggressive foreign policy or about the oligarchs' successful efforts to drag the Republic into five wars. What an aggressive foreign policy accomplishes by slow degrees, a state of war accomplishes in a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/walter-karp/there-is-nothing-puzzling-about-america-s-gratuitously-aggressive/)

[Walter Karp](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/walter-karp/)

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## Other authors on Citizenry

## More by Walter Karp

> [“Since the Civil War...the most unruly, the most independent, the most republican of American citizens have been the small farmer.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/walter-karp/since-the-civil-war-the-most-unruly-the-most-independent-the-most/)

[Walter Karp](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/walter-karp/)

> [ What chiefly governs the \[U.S.\] military budget is the need to spend enormous sums of money in a useless way. The allegedly powerful Pentagon… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/walter-karp/what-chiefly-governs-the-u-s-military-budget-is-the-need-to-spend/)

[Walter Karp](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/walter-karp/)

> [ “\[The public school system is\] usually a twelve year sentence of mind control. Crushing creativity, smashing individualism, encouraging collectivism and compromise, destroying the exercise… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/walter-karp/the-public-school-system-is-usually-a-twelve-year-sentence-of-mind/)

[Walter Karp](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/walter-karp/)

> [The military budget is simply an enormous pork barrel of special privilege, the privileges taking the form of windfall profits, of no-risk profits and,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/walter-karp/the-military-budget-is-simply-an-enormous-pork-barrel-of-special/)

[Walter Karp](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/walter-karp/)

> [There is nothing puzzling ... about America's gratuitously aggressive foreign policy or about the oligarchs' successful efforts to drag the Republic into five wars.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/walter-karp/there-is-nothing-puzzling-about-america-s-gratuitously-aggressive/)

[Walter Karp](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/walter-karp/)

> [Since free men cannot judge for themselves what endangers their freedom if they believe it is never in danger, it is the chief burden…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/walter-karp/since-free-men-cannot-judge-for-themselves-what-endangers-their/)

[Walter Karp](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/walter-karp/)

> [By their subjugation of the press, the political powers in America have conferred on themselves the greatest of political blessings -- Gyges' ring of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/walter-karp/by-their-subjugation-of-the-press-the-political-powers-in-america/)

[Walter Karp](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/walter-karp/)

> [The most esteemed journalists are precisely the most servile. For it is by making themselves useful to the powerful that they gain access to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/walter-karp/the-most-esteemed-journalists-are-precisely-the-most-servile-for-it/)

[Walter Karp](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/walter-karp/)

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