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To know things as they are is better than to believe things as they seem.
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If the true freedom of the press is to decide for itself what to publish and when to publish it, the true…
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Pres. Lyndon Johnson was a middle-aged man of smalltown America, both a Westerner and a Southerner, and except where politics had demonstrably…
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Our political parties exist for no other reason than to win power; they are not ideological debating societies designed to present a…
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Consensus politics is a cyclical thing-in order to accumulate power, one must dispose of it, and as one disposes of it, one…
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There seldom is enmity between seasoned old politicians, who know as much as men can of human weakness and human strength.
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Offices are not powerful because they exist; men make them so. Rights are not honored because they exist; men compel their recognition.
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He [John F. Kennedy] might have envisioned himself being "alone, at the top" but, like Woodrow Wilson, he would find out that…
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At present, intelligent people do not have their children vaccinated, nor does the law now compel them to. The result is not,…
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His lordship may compel us to be equal upstairs, but there will never be equality in the servants' hall.
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No iron chain, or outward force of any kind, can ever compel the soul of a person to believe or to disbelieve.
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History shows that where ethics and economics come in conflict, victory is always with economics. Vested interests have never been known to…
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...we must face the fact that unilateral action on the part of the United States will never be enough to stop illegal…
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At this stage you must admit that whatever is seen to be sentient is nevertheless composed of atoms that are insentient. The…
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The state is essentially an apparatus of compulsion and coercion. The characteristic feature of its activities is to compel people through the…
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